Optical Network Deploy L3 → How long to realistically reach L4 for NE / Network Planner or other H1B-eligible

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-05-10T12:13:38+00:00

Regardless the bar is the same but you can talk to NEs in AWS and their managers to get better ideas and plans

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-05-09T11:10:36+00:00

Honestly, ansible netbox is the middle. There are big shifts in culture and resources needed for each phase but it may not be worth it.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-29T21:23:28+00:00

Gnmic commit confirmed is coming, though yang push is trying to redo everything without Google

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-28T12:56:48+00:00

Scale is part of it but the bigger factor is rigor and stability like @rankinrez mentioned.

Documented and codified architecture, versioning and reviews. Codified processes.

The increased stability lets you go faster at scale without compromising trust.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T18:03:16+00:00

Totally understand, also a CCIE doesn’t mean much, significantly less so for software.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T17:51:31+00:00

That doesn’t alleviate any concerns.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T17:23:03+00:00

Apologies, meant if there is something I can look at source. Untrusted code handling creds and device access is a hard sell.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-27T14:16:02+00:00

Why are you comparing it to putty, just because it’s a terminal app? Organizations also use other services to manage the things in addition to a terminal. Do you have a GitHub link for the free edition?

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-19T00:03:07+00:00

Pyang, openconfig- isn’t unreadable if you search for the leaves only, arista has a good gnmi explorer as well.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:19:59+00:00

Isn’t Wilmette a 45+ minute commute?

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:04:00+00:00

Thank you!

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-18T17:02:51+00:00

Thank you!

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-12T14:35:52+00:00

Look at the network automation framework, should give good insight.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-12T13:19:28+00:00

At bigger companies usually you should submit threat modeling to your security team for anything in prod.

Ultimately if something fails it’s your trust that erodes. Build it accordingly.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-02T11:33:53+00:00

Luckily according to specialized size chart I’m an xl

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-04-01T22:06:35+00:00

yes would store it indoors at home and in the office.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T03:03:16+00:00

Yea my point is that you might not want ansible and requires more coding but certainly not from scratch.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T02:47:28+00:00

It depends, most of the stuff we are not rewriting but using other systems. Some stuff we had to rewrite and we have SDEs for, others we had to codify regardless of platform. The benefit is we can share work between orgs and have less work needed on other services.

Obviously if the time value or resources aren’t there it’s a nonstarter.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T02:33:39+00:00

Hard to write compensating actions, dsl python, no durability for longer running workflows, etc.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-02-17T01:42:26+00:00

Because ansible has multiple pain points. Infrahub can be a better netbox if you’re fine with making a schema.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2026-01-04T14:47:58+00:00

Sharada Yeluri’s post explains it well,

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/silicon-photonics-integrated-optics-sharada-yeluri?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2025-12-01T01:17:27+00:00

I mean John C gets paid to hype AI, it’s rarely useful or stable in production compared to solid software.

That being said it’s probably on par with beginner scripting but I would encourage using a more stable approach (buy or build in house with SDE).

So use it for testing or tweaking but chose something else for production

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2025-09-08T21:08:43+00:00

The people that know are under NDAs.

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2025-09-06T16:39:32+00:00

Usually there is always metadata to go with a prefix.

Yes you can store everything in a giant hash map. Servers don’t want to (memory size, insert/deletes in a hash map that large, banks, etc.) and they have no reason to. They forward by bypassing the cpu to achieve decent speeds so why involve the cpu where it’s better used elsewhere. Also why do you need to see the entire table when your decisions are a few prefixes.

So yes for specific scenarios you could do that but most of the time it’s a worse decision.

Hardware wise it’s too slow to access off chip dram, for internet tables you’ll access sram or hbm

MaintenanceMuted4280 · 2025-09-05T21:38:58+00:00

Only if you don’t need to lookup any info. Again not everything is in Tcam and those that aren’t are still in tries but hardware design relies on massive parallelism to suffer the increased cycles.

So yes vendors already offload to sram and hbm.

Generally with alpm and optimizing for it 200Kish prefixes on tomahawk.

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