Microwave surplus auction

[Rob Seastrom]

Correct.  Though a stack of IDUs may have some value as spares,
particularly if that's the part that generally fails (have no idea if
that's the case for these).

-r

Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> writes:

> Thanks Rob.  I take it the units if sold together would have more value? So
> often the people charged with selling the stuff surplus have no idea what they
> are selling. 
> Rob Seastrom wrote on 10/8/2015 10:29 AM:
>
>           Alex Fraser [[<beatnic at comcast.net>]] writes:
>
>                     These caught my eye,  It's Loudoun County surplus "Nera Microwave
> units"  Looks like some sort of network gear. 11.405 GHz?
>
> [[http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=1461662]]
>
>
>      It's a mix of Nera and Ceragon equipment.  Ceragon bought Nera in
> 2011.  Looks like the same stuff except for the badging.
>
> This equipment is split - indoor and outdoor units (IDU, ODU), with up
> to 300m of coax between them.  These IDUs appear to have management
> ethernets and 4 x T1 interfaces on a 50-pin interface connector that
> you may recognize from applications in SCSI-2 and HSSI land.
>
> This auction is for just the IDUs.  Presumably the ODUs are still
> bolted to towers somewhere or got sold for scrap.  Or maybe listed
> elsewhere on that same auction site.
>
> But IDUs are not especially useful by themselves.  It's like buying a
> transceiver with no output stage beyond the modulator and no receiver
> front end ahead of the IF.
>
> -r
>
>
>
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