Multi-Layer Cable Nesting

[iunderwood]

Throwing up another idea against the wall here ...

I would like to see the ability to perform multi-layer cable nesting, where it becomes possible to aggregate a pair of back ports over a pair of front ports (that would have their own back ports).

One use case is as follows:

I have some dark fiber that i can easily model and connect between two locations on my campus. However, we recently picked up a very nice 40-channel MUX for a couple of ends. It would be really nice to be able to connect the rear port of this (supporting the 40 front ports) over the existing fiber infrastructure as modeled.

As it currently stands, I can fake this a little bit by making two connections. One as a single interface on each MUX which represents the physical path between rear ports, followed by the 40 front x 1 rear port to represent the wavelengths between them.

My familiarity with the code isn't good enough to suggest how it could be done, but it could be possible to tell a set of rears to link to an upstream cable somehow ... like the Interface I am using on the MUXes to trace the primary path.

(MUX) --- IF --- Front --- (Fiber FAP) --- Rear --- (long cable) --- Rear --- (Fiber FAP) --- Front --- IF --- (MUX)

Front --- (MUX) --- Rear --- (Path from MUX IF Path Above) --- Rear --- (MUX) --- Front