OKTET started from a frustration every network engineer knows: datasheets that describe a switch nobody could actually buy. So we wrote the rule down and never softened it — publish the number you can measure, then prove the box can hold it. Everything below is how that rule shows up in the metal.
Every switch runs a 48-hour thermal and traffic soak — chambered, cycled hot to cold, every port driven to line rate. Infant-mortality failures surface here, on our bench, not in your closet.
Automated optical inspection reads every solder joint against the reference image. Then a human walks all 24 or 48 ports with a loopback and signs the traveller by hand.
Every serial maps to its board revision, solder profile, optics batch and soak log. When a field failure comes back, we can trace it to the exact lot — and close the loop into the next revision.
Every spec on this site is measured on the bench, line-rate, both directions, with 64-byte frames included. No marketing throughput, no asterisks, no "up to". If you can reproduce it, it ships; if you cannot reproduce ours, that is a bug and we want the ticket.
Hardware that has not been tested is a hypothesis. Every unit runs a 48-hour thermal and traffic soak, automated optical inspection, and a full port walk before it leaves the line. A unit that drifts never gets a serial number.
Hot-swap PSUs, field-replaceable fans, firmware we still patch years out, and a traceable bill of materials for every revision. We design for the median twelve-year service life our field record actually shows — not the next purchase order.
Sales is not a department here. Ask about a link budget, a buffer depth, an EVPN corner case, and the reply comes from someone who could rack the box themselves. We would rather lose a deal than oversell a design.
A small team on purpose. Architecture, firmware, RF, manufacturing and the field — each owned by a name.
Dana designs the reference topologies OKTET hardware is validated against, from single-rack offices to multi-site ISP cores. She spent twelve years running carrier and enterprise networks before joining the team that decides what a switch has to survive before it ships.
Ravi owns the burn-in, thermal, and field-failure programs that decide whether a unit earns the OKTET label. He reads return logs the way some people read the news, and most of his job is finding the one board in ten thousand that would have failed at 2 a.m. in a customer's closet.
Marta owns OKTET-OS — the CLI you type into and the API you script against. She is unreasonably particular about config that survives a power cut and reloads identically every time.
Tomás characterises every optic and radio we ship against the published link budget. If an SFP+ reaches 80m on the datasheet, it reaches 80m on his bench — or it does not get the part number.
Yuki runs the line where boards become products — solder profiles, automated optical inspection, the 48-hour soak. Her signature is on the traveller of every unit that earns the OKTET label.
Samuel reads the return logs and goes to where the failures are — the closet at 2 a.m., the rooftop in August. The fixes he brings back close the loop into the next hardware revision.
Soak on every unit, before serial
Ports walked at end of line
Ports shipped & burned-in
Median hardware service life
Send the floor plan, the port count, the uptime target. You'll get a real bill of materials and a wiring plan back — proven against the spec, signed by a person.
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