Those who remember AUX ports on routers and cabling to CON ports might appreciate Wetatronics design of a SFP that provides an AUX port (or two with a breakout adapter). Connects outbound to a meet me server (cloud or run on-prem) over TLS.

Seems like a clever idea, for a “zero U” console server.

(As announced at #NZNOG lightning talks.)

https://www.wetatronics.com