[mmmBacon]

I spend time designing networking equipment for one of the FAANG companies and we spend a lot of time on fiber cabling and general cabling. A limiting factor in deployment and therefore scalability is often the time it takes to wire everything. The goal is to have the install go as quickly as possible while minimizing errors and allowing serviceability. Given the density of our racks, you often aren’t able to foresee all problems with the cabling until we’ve built many mockups and done the first installs. This would be a useful tool and allow people to play with more scenarios more rapidly. To your point, we have defined the network role of the equipment and all the striping way in advance of receiving any hardware.