gdahl's Journal: Serial over ethernet

Hello, I am currently in the process of researching for a diagram that reflects the process of configuring serial over Ethernet. I'm unable to find any resources that could direct me in the right path in configuring such a setup. The use of the project will be in a datacenter environment. I was hoping to create serial to cat5 cables, connect it directly into a cisco based switch and configure each interface to have a IP address to connect to. After the project is designed and in a working environment, we plan to design a web interface to allow the customers to connect directly to the IP thats assigned to the serial connection(their server of course). If somebody could provide me with some helpful resources on starting this project, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks