> > 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 <s...@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 <hanni...@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 > > > > -- > ++ytti > -- 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