On 12/10/14 4:33 PM, Phil Bedard wrote: > Curious what the use case is where a photonic or L1 switch wouldn't get > the job done? > > With the robotic system you still need to wire everything up so it's > available to be xconnected.
We've done electromechanical cross connect termination before on a very large scale. http://www.siemens.com/history/pool/newsarchiv/newsmeldungen/20110403_bild_3_fernsprechamt_muenchen-schwabing_458px.jpg those systems typically don't have the capacity to connect 100% of the edges at once. > FiberZone was another vendor who made robotic patch panels, but I'm not > sure they are around anymore. their website is still there, I've never seen an AFM live. > Interesting also Verizon has a patent on automated patch panels, but using > very specific mechanics. > > https://www.google.com/patents/US8175425 > > > > > Phil > > > > > On 12/9/14, 11:51 PM, "Arnold Nipper" <arn...@nipper.de> wrote: > >> Am 2014-12-10 00:36, schrieb Andrew Jones: >> >>> http://www.laser2000.de/out/media/glimmerglass_system_100%281%29.pdf >>> >> Thank you, Andrew ... while Glimmerglass is really an exciting and >> excdellent system, these devices are exactly those photonic cross >> connects I'm _not_ looking for :9 >> >>> On 10.12.2014 10:21, Arnold Nipper wrote: >>>> I'm looking for a modular, cost-effective automatic / intelligent fibre >>>> optic patch panel. >>>> >>>> I'm not looking at these photonic x-connects, but really for something >>>> which does the patching instead of a technician. >>>> >> >> Arnold >> -- >> Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany >> email: arn...@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 5593407 2 >> mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 5593407 9 >>
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