8 or 16 serial board

Vu Pham vu at sivell.com
Tue Sep 4 13:02:09 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:25 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
> I am looking for a 8x or 16x serial rs-232 board,  doesn't matter via
> USB, PCI or PCI-x.
> 
> My purpose is to use it to remotely control the network equipments
> ( routers, switches ... ).
> 
> Is there any advantage of those above boards to the Cisco 2511 ( access
> server with 16 serial connectors ) ? eBay has some 2511 for less than
> $200, and the 16x serial board is about $600 or more.
> 

Cheap won this time. I just got one 2511 from eBay :)

Vu




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