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Improved Breakout Modeling #11070

Closed davidgwatkins closed 1 year ago

davidgwatkins commented 1 year ago

NetBox version

v3.3.8

Feature type

Data model extension

Proposed functionality

Enable parent-child relationships for Cables. Restrict termination selection for child Cable to terminating interfaces / ports (and their associated children) of the parent Cable.

Use case

This would allow users to more accurately model breakout interface assignments on QSFPs, where a parent interface models the MPO cable termination, and child interfaces model the logical lane assignments, without the complexity of specific implementations of optical/electrical pinouts.

This should work for direct interface assignment, as well as with intermediate fiber plant.

NetBox MPO Breakout (1)

NetBox MPO Breakout with FP X-Connects (1)

Database changes

Likely modifications to Cable model.

External dependencies

No response

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