19 May
2011
19 May
'11
3:58 p.m.
In search of some list wisdom:
In the mid 90's, when Canarie (a Canadian government sponsored early backbone
provider) brought the internet to the Canadian north, they had a setup that used
out-of-band control to switch power on/off on their equipment.
From memory, it was an off-the-shelf 2 or 4 socket
power-bar, with a telephone connector, which 'I -think' also allowed passthrough
of the phone signal to a modem. The idea being that a single phone line could be used to
cycle the power to individual equipment, as well as being used to dial in to a console
port on a router.
Does anyone know of a current commercial solution that allows passthrough to a modem? All
I can seem to find right now are solutions that only handle the remote control, or that
are IP based, which is what I want to stay away from, unless the IP based solution also
had a dial-in capability (with modem signaling).
???
Thanks
Michel Adam
micheladam at theedge.ca