So I'm looking for an appliance that acts as a layer-1 services box, basically allowing you to plug a bunch of network appliances into it, and it acts just like a virtual conduit to connect all the devices together. The application I'm looking at is basically setting up some lab gear. We plug everything into this appliance and would thus allow people to remotely configure the topology they want for the lab. This definitely needs to act at layer-1 so we don't run into errata doing experiments with things like MAC-SEC and MPLS.
I know these boxes exist because I've seen them before, but I can't for the life of me remember what they're called or who makes them.
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