[Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

[John Darrah]

On 6/25/2017 8:33 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 06/25/2017 05:52 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>>
>> On 2017-06-25 23:26, Larry Fahnoe wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports,
>>
>>
>> I think it is weird - with everything else being connected to LANs 
>> like fridges etc . . why not UPSs?
> because probably an UPS port ( or even RS232-to-USB adapter ) is 
> cheaper to implement than a LAN port ( & everything associated with 
> it, like IP stack, SNMP and so on )

A LAN port is also an enterprise feature and companies don't like their 
lesser expensive products competing with the enterprise stuff.

-- john


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