[CommieBobDole]

My thought is this is probably an attempt to bring a physical paradigm to a software-defined network, since it's apparently a Cisco project.

Though your comment brings to mind a couple of things that might be useful in the world of physical networking:

1. An AR tool that identifies the physical switches and overlays the port VLAN assignments, trunks, etc. Bonus points if it could color-code the cables accordingly, though I don't know how you'd track them through a knot somewhere.

2. A physical switch with RGB port LEDs with color-coded port assignments would also be nice. Very nice.

[dsr_]

2 would be pretty easy to do the second one in software right now: "Switch, steady orange on all untagged ports, blinky orange on all VLAN 601."

Port LED status lights are already multipurpose: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independ...

It would be nice to get the ability to control them more generally.