On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
On (2014-06-24 11:50 -0400), Christopher Morrow wrote:
Programmable seems like the way to go, provided there's a path to do that in the cli of the device you plugged the SFP into? (which I think is the hard part actually, right?)
Solution could be same as for tunable optics, first you tune with eeprommer until CLI gets support. Remote legs could have their own eeprommer, which can be easy enough to use not to require training and costs like 10EUR.
it's going to be hard to schedule a key roll then, right? I would expect that in most/many deployments where someone enters a 'key' there has to be some compliance process that includes: "And you change that key every X days" right? So you'll NOT want to be in a situation that involves coordinating a few thousand truck rolls every X months to have this deployed. also, as soon as you give the remote-hands person a copy of your key material and ask them to do the deed on the eepromer, you'll be buying replacement eepromer's/stick-note-bundles for the remote-hands people (or god forbid asking ${equinix-alike} to cleanse your key material from their ticketing system.
Maybe some customer would then enter need for this in CLI in their multimillion dollar RFQ, and then we'd get the feature.
maybe so... multi-million of sfp is a lot of sfp though.