[AusNOG] OOB Management devices?

[Phillip Grasso]

Hi folks,

Just some things to consider using public cell based/3G for OOB;

1) Critical infrastructure or not
2) would the access be critical during an disaster scenario etc, real
disasters (e.g. sept 11) / heavy periods (e.g. new years eve) show that
mobile networks can't handle that load... I'm sure mobile networks employ a
decent erlang blocking factor, by design the network is going to support
extremely load economically.
3) again sept11 lessons shown that telco operators restore analog lines
first, (often confusing digital lines etc). So does restoration time post
disaster matter? However one could argue that partial mobile network
restoration is capable of coming back much faster then hard lines.




2008/8/23 Ian Henderson <ianh at chime.net.au>

> Skeeve Stevens wrote on 2008-08-23:
>
> > Cisco 881GW
> > New Ethernet CPE with 3G and wireless N
>
> There was a post on C-NSP recently that indicated you can't dial into a 3G
> interface on a Cisco router. Although tunnelling out over IP was suggested,
> this kind of defeats the purpose of an autonomous console solution.
>
> http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2008-August/053176.html
>
>
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> Ian Henderson, CCIE #14721
> Senior Network Engineer, iiNet Limited
>
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