In your fair proposal, MSA is related to network architecture as a way to standardise pluggable (optics). But as always standards are incomplete, ambiguous and do not guarantee interoperability, so it will take some time for industry to decide what is 'correct' interpretation of MSA. Implying when you buy early in life cycle new optics, you may want to source more carefully and test, compared to buying later in life cycle sourcing pluggables anywhere with 0 testing is relatively low risk.
Amen to that. Cheers, Etienne On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 8:39 AM Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
We could also add an explanation to our proposals for the acronym. :)
In your fair proposal, MSA is related to network architecture as a way to standardise pluggable (optics). But as always standards are incomplete, ambiguous and do not guarantee interoperability, so it will take some time for industry to decide what is 'correct' interpretation of MSA. Implying when you buy early in life cycle new optics, you may want to source more carefully and test, compared to buying later in life cycle sourcing pluggables anywhere with 0 testing is relatively low risk.
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 09:32, Etienne-Victor Depasquale via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Just to add a bit of fun to the mix - perhaps multi-source agreement was
intended :)
Cheers,
Etienne
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 3:59 AM Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com>
wrote:
All,
Why do MSA’s matter as related to network architecture?
Thanks all —
-M<
-- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale
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-- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale