gNMI Promised the Future of Networking — Adoption Says Otherwise
A slow news day for automation sends us deep on gNMI — what it actually is, why YANG model fragmentation undercuts the hype, and why a quiet IETF standard might win out long-term. Plus: the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal isn't closed like we said last week, and a subsea cable break just added four hundred milliseconds to Melbourne-Singapore traffic.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Tuesday, September eighth. Quick question: when's the last time someone actually explained what gNMI does, instead of just name-dropping it? We've said that word three times this week and never once defined it, so today we fix that.
Honestly, guilty as charged. And it's not just us. Half the industry says "gNMI" the way people say "the cloud" — like everyone already knows, and nobody wants to be the one who asks.
Which is exactly why today's a deep dive instead of a headline scan. It's a genuinely quiet news day for automation, our number one domain, so instead of forcing a story that isn't there, we're doing the explainer that's been overdue since Monday.
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