EVPN Anycast Lab, OCI MSA Gaps, and Sonnet 5 Drops Same Day
A working containerlab for EVPN centralized anycast gateway on IPv6 underlay lands same day as The Register tears apart what OCI MSA actually leaves unresolved for AI optical scaling — plus Anthropic ships Sonnet five at near-Opus performance and lifts export controls on its restricted frontier models.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Tuesday, July first. Quick question: if every major AI vendor just aligned on an optical interconnect standard, does that mean the hard problem is solved — or does it mean the hard problem just got more precisely defined?
That distinction matters a lot, and today we have an answer. The OCI MSA — that's the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement — settled the architecture debate. The Register published a really clear analysis of what it actually specifies versus what it left open, and those are two very different lists.
We're going to get into that. We also have a very practical networking story — a working containerlab for EVPN centralized anycast gateway on an IPv6 underlay, which sounds like a niche EVPN deep-cut but is genuinely useful for anyone running Arista. And Anthropic dropped Sonnet five yesterday, same day they announced the export controls on Fable five and Mythos five are lifted.
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