On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Saku Ytti <s...@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.