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My thought is this is probably an attempt to bring a physical paradigm to a software-defined network, since it's apparently a Cisco project. Though your commen
by CommieBobDole 8y ago
My thought is this is probably an attempt to bring a physical paradigm to a software-defined network, since it's apparently a Cisco project.
Though your comment brings to mind a couple of things that might be useful in the world of physical networking:
1. An AR tool that identifies the physical switches and overlays the port VLAN assignments, trunks, etc. Bonus points if it could color-code the cables accordingly, though I don't know how you'd track them through a knot somewhere.
2. A physical switch with RGB port LEDs with color-coded port assignments would also be nice. Very nice.
- dsr_ 8y ago2 would be pretty easy to do the second one in software right now: "Switch, steady orange on all untagged ports, blinky orange on all VLAN 601." Port LED status lights are already multipurpose: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independent/junos/topics/reference/specifications/port-ex4200-network-leds.html https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independ... It would be nice to get the ability to control them more generally.