One of the analogies that went by in this interview with nick mckeown
was "programmable cables" and the IPU concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfk6gZORmV0

I'm still kind of in shell shock about finding openwrt "chaos calmer"
deeply embedded in some gpon SFPs, but in those cases it's control
plane only,
not something as advanced as data plane. I wish I had a clearer
picture of the modern data center, and knew where the edge was going
to go.

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I tried to build a better future, a few times:
https://wayforward.archive.org/?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icei.org

Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
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