From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 24 14:35:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15244 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarpon.exis.net (stefan@tarpon.exis.net [205.252.72.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15216; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:35:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stefan@localhost) by tarpon.exis.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) id RAA06844; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:23:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:23:16 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Joe Greco cc: spork , richard@pegasus.com, freebsd-isp@freeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable modems? In-Reply-To: <199703242003.OAA18596@solaria.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm sitting about 30 meters from a room where there are TWELVE HUNDRED > Courier modems. A local ISP used a bit of creativity and developed a > nifty way to set up arrays of 120 Courier modems, complete with phone, > power, and network wiring for the four Portmasters on each array. > It's a bit scary to see 120 modems all powered by a single step-down > transformer (10 identical racks). The modems kick off a bit of heat, > too. On the other hand, it's very easy to debug, and is a relatively > inexpensive per-port solution to the problem. We are doing the exact same thing. I think they are cooler looking with a big old transformer do it all. > It's quite impressive to see a telco demarc for 1200 analog lines. That I would like to see, but I will stick with all the fiber lines. -------------------------------------------- Stefan Molnar Team Exis.Net stefan@exis.net Member EFF Team OS/2 east-coast-ambassador@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU --------------------------------------------