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Re: Cisco HFR
by Peter Lothberg 27 May '04

27 May '04

> > Incorrect. There are transponders that put a 40G signal in a 10G DWDM > > optical system. (You have to move a step up from morse code to make the > > side-bands fit..) And they atleast run in 80 chanel systems. > > What is the range of this, how often do you need to amplify and regen the > 40G signal compared to 10G? You can run the same distance as you do with your 10G system. It;s mostly driven by dispersion, crosstalk and snr if you have many amps. Milage varies with span design, but is not much different than 10G (as the symbol speed is till 10G). > Can 10G optical amplifiers be used? Yepp.. -P

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Looking for comp-priv listserv archive from early-mid 1990s
by Tom Vest 27 May '04

27 May '04

I hear that someone had unearthed this a couple of years ago; would be grateful for a pointer... Tom

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Buffalo Spammer sentenced to prison
by Henry Linneweh 27 May '04

27 May '04

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=2&u=/pcworld/2004052…

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Cisco HFR
by Eric Kuhnke 27 May '04

27 May '04

Here it is, complete with OC-768 interface: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html

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RE: Cisco HFR
by Williams, Jeff 27 May '04

27 May '04

Peter Galbavy wrote: >Today's Financial Times in the UK carried a mutli-page (1/3rd or so of >each broadsheet page) series of ads for this platform. > >Ergh, the worst fluffy "now you can do this" marketing I have seen in >quite a while. When will they learn that "bigger, faster, harder" is >difficult to PR... > >Peter Given the performance of this box isn't it a bit silly to mass market advertise it? At a guess there are only a few dozen companies worldwide that might need such a machine- so why not go direct to them? Or is this a case of 'brand awareness'? Is it really that important that the population at large thinks that Cisco gear is at the core of the Internet? Are end-users supposed to call their ISP and demand they use Cisco 'cause they saw a commercial for them? Just curious... I like their gear, just not their marketing. Jeff ************************************************************** This message, including any attachments, contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. TIAA-CREF **************************************************************

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Mobsters target Australians online
by Sean Donelan 27 May '04

27 May '04

Until you actually arrest the person, it is sometimes difficult to determine where the criminals are actually based. Some people thought the Sasser author was associated with Russia, not Germany. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/26/1085461839964.html Eastern European organised crime families are using the internet to target Australians. Delegates at the annual AusCERT Asia Pacific Internet Security Conference on the Gold Coast were warned yesterday that mobsters were hiring computer programmers to take their brand of criminal activity online. The deputy head of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, Superintendent Mick Deats, said one Eastern European syndicate with interests in prostitution, drugs and gun smuggling was also earning money all over the world from internet credit card fraud, software piracy, child pornography and online extortion. "This particular group, to our knowledge so far, employ 10 programmers," he said. [...] American psychologist Max Kilger said hackers no longer fitted a typical stereotype. "The hacker stereotypes are long gone," he said.

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New block of AS Numbers to ARIN
by Doug Barton 27 May '04

27 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following block of AS Numbers to ARIN: 32768 - 33791 For a full list of IANA AS Number allocations please see http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAt8hiwtDPyTesBYwRAljZAKCG30/XaGZxXaX3INTIN7FflvLAlgCgijFb Vl7S7lKJJ+RilDhyr792HFg= =G6z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Open Source BGP Route Optimization?
by Noel Montales 27 May '04

27 May '04

Hello! Does anybody happen to know of any open source project working on a BGP route optimizer like what Route Science or Internap or the likes have commercially? Just sounds like the sort of thing somebody would have though of, but I've never seen any mention of it.. Regards, Noel Montales Waveform Technology LLC

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Re: Cisco HFR
by Hank Nussbacher 27 May '04

27 May '04

>> No. The BFR was the development name for Tony Li's last Cisco project >> and morphed into the GSR. The processor card in at least early GSRs had >> a BFR sticker on them. > > Pardon, but I need to set the record straight here... It was not by > any stretch of the imagination 'my' project. There were dozens of folks > that had far more involvement than I did. All I did was to help with > getting things jump started. > > Tony Just to add a bit more, I believe Tony and Michael Laor were the main leaders in the GSR: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/optical/gsr/index.htm Whereas the BFR had a lot of Israeli work from Michael's group (as per an Israeli daily reports - and here is the English translation): http://www.ivc-online.com/ivcWeeklyItem.asp?articleID=1727 -Hank

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netlantis news
by Pascal Gloor 27 May '04

27 May '04

Hello ppl, as you probably have noticed, netlantis is down since a while. Netlantis had critical performance problems and we decided to re-write some of the core scripts to improve the DB update. While doing this we had some new ideas about how to process the updates and much more has been re-written. There are no new features for the users, just the core-system works on a different way and all the BGP updates queuing problems will be gone. "What's new then ?" netlantis is running now since several weeks its own BGP daemon called (guess) nbgpd. So far it works well and has pretty nice performance (able to handle up to 500 full BGP sessions (tested up to 100)). "nbgpd" is dumping updates into files (per peer, per timestamp) in its own (simple) binary format. The updates are then sent to "ndb" (netlantis DB manager) which is a fast "routing table status file updater". This also runs since several weeks. the last difficulty is to convert this "ndb" format for the SQL database (to handle all the web/whois/telnet queries). So far we wrote the MySQL (MyISAM format) data file properly. "So? why isnt it up yet ????" We still have a last part to finish, writing the MySQL (MyISAM format) index file. Once this step completed, netlantis will come back up! "What's the difference for the lambda user??" Reliable informations! Until now, "global cisco bug upgrade worldwide in the world" made netlantis to go booom due to the high load of bgp updates. This will no more happen. We expect to have a delay to "real-time" of about 10 to 15 minutes, with few or many BGP updates, it wont matter! "Well, I dont care about your internal stuff, when will it be back????" We expect to bring netlantis back during the next week. We will inform you then. Best Regards, Pascal Gloor _ ______________ ___ _ ________________ / |/ / __/_ __/ / / _ | / |/ /_ __/ _/ __/ / / _/ / / / /__/ __ |/ / / / _/ /_\ \ /_/|_/___/ /_/ /____/_/ |_/_/|_/ /_/ /___/___/.org ... where all the routes meet

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