NOC Calendar

Mon Oct 27 16:27:24 UTC 2014

There are boxes that do that, but it’s really not a good solution… Here’s why:

1.	TV signals in NTSC max out at 640x480. In ATSC, you get up to 1920x1080.
	Many monitors today are capable of 2560x1440 or more.

2.	It’s expensive and has few advantages over a traditional KVM switch.

3.	An HDMI switcher and graphic cards with HDMI output are not particularly hard
	to find these days. DVI->HDMI is also relatively easy if you have trouble getting
	HDMI out of the machine. This is a much less expensive solution.

Its fairly trivial to get VM video out to HDMI if you’re willing to dedicate hardware to the
task.

Owen

> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:38 AM, chris <tknchris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was looking into something like this a while back and one thing that
> didnt seem to exist but I thought would be cool is if you could have a x86
> box or appliance that could take video output of lets say a couple virtual
> machines and encode it into a standard TV signal so your average TV with a
> builtin tuner and have each VM's display encoded into a different TV
> channel. This way you could throw up TV's everywhere and easily change
> whats displayed at any time without having to have devices plugged into
> every TV.
> 
> If this already exists or someone has built anything like this I would love
> to hear about it.
> 
> - chris
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, James Wininger <jwininger at ifncom.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone on the list have a reference to a good "NOC" calendar? What I
>> mean by that is a calendar that is view only for the NOC, but looks "good"
>> on a larger LCD panel display.
>> 
>> Ideally it would automatically rotate on a given schedule (say 6am), and
>> then show only that days scheduled events, there would be no need for the
>> NOC to interact with the calendar, just consume the data.
>> 
>> Perhaps it would be color coded to show "DWDM work", vs MPLS work, or even
>> "new installs". But the idea is that the NOC would have readily accessible
>> "view only" at a glance. They would not have to load up outlook, go to
>> calendar, select the MPLS, install etc to see what work is happening.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jim Wininger
>> 
>> 