WW: Colo Vending Machine

Fri Feb 17 23:15:44 UTC 2012

2012/2/17 Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>

> Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a
> vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't
> let vendor specificity scare you off.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
>
1 - As previously said : LC/SC couplers + patchcords
2 - fibre/connectors cleaning kit
3 - SC/LC optical attenuators
4 - Laser pen that can send visible red beam in blink/continuous mode
5 - as said previously too : USB-RS232 adaptator
6 - plastic cable clamps (don't know the exact english term for that but I
mean this -->
http://www.hellopro.fr/images/produit-2/9/3/8/serre-cables-261839.jpg)
7 - compressed air can to clean dust
8 - CAT5 tester

A good this to be able to borrow from the noc (because a bit problematic to
put then in a vending machine) :

- an Optical Power Meter
- a live fiber detection device (to be able to detect presence of light and
the direction of the light in a fibre without disconnecting it) we use
these at work and they're awesome :
http://www.exfo.com/en/Products/Field-Network-Testing/Optical/Signal-Detection/LFD-300BTG-300B-FiberFinder/
- a plunger (not sure about the english translation for this one too :-) )

-- 
Pierre-Yves Maunier