[olug] Community Colo Project

[Dan Clough]

Thanks for alleviating my concerns on that.  One of the key goals
alongside keeping the operating costs down is keeping the need for
procurement low as well.  The more equipment we can (re)use, the
better!

I fired off some info on our needs to my Cogent rep, hopefully he'll
shoot me a reply by tomorrow.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> Bah, this is piddly little stuff; I think you're thinking way too hard
> about it. Except for the scale this isn't a whole lot different from
> what some of us run in our basements.
>
> If we did this, we would be using enterprise-grade switches. The sort of
> switches that have GBIC slots in them ;) The sort of stuff I have
> sitting in a corner waiting for me to give away ;)
>
> I have Cisco 3500XLs - 3524XL (24x 10/100, 2x GBIC), 3548XLs (48x
> 10/100, 2x GBIC), 3508XL (8x GBIC). Cosmetically challenged 1000base-SX
> GBICs are free ;) I also have 2950G-24s (24x 10/100, 2x GBIC), 2950G-48s
> (48x 10/100, 2x GBIC) and 2948Gs (48x 10/100, 2x GBIC) I could be
> convinced to part with.
>
> It might be weird to some people to connect both ethernet ports on the
> router to the switch - a 10/100 port and a GBIC on vlan 10 for the ISP,
> everything else on VLAN 20 - but we wouldn't have to worry about any
> financial outlay. If the switch breaks we'll have downtime regardless.
> We could always get a fiber card or three later after we get established.
>
> As for the fiber card, we wouldn't need to spend $500 for a fiber Gig-E
> card, if you know what you're looking for you can get them for a lot
> less than that:
> http://search.ebay.com/280322917964
> http://search.ebay.com/110342439831
> http://search.ebay.com/130291378047
> http://search.ebay.com/140304056203
>
> I wouldn't even worry about which connector the fiber has on it, there
> are lots of ways to convert between ST, LC, and SC - couplers, patch
> panels, etc.
>
> Dan Clough wrote:
>> I've never done anything on this scale before, so one of my (already
>> numerous) worries is if we just get a barebones fiber drop from
>> Pinpoint.  Won't we need gear built to handle it?  New fiber NICs are
>> ludicrously expensive... I've seen upwards of $5000 for the Intel 10G,
>> $2k if you're just looking for the transceiver.  Now granted we won't
>> ever need to handle a 10G drop (And if we did we sure as hell wouldn't
>> use a single Vyatta box) but the 1Gigs are still $400-500 a pop.
>> Would we just need to use an SC/LC to 8P8C transceiver, or is a more
>> complex setup required?
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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