Just want to announce for the history record that last week we did OC768/STM256 NY/USA-Lulea/SE using routers with integrated optics all the way. Longest hopp was SeaGirt to Blabjerg at some 7500km using RX-DPSK modulation on the underwather cable. Interface facing submarine cable in Denmark when link came up.. POS0/5/0/0 is up, line protocol is up Interface state transitions: 235948 Hardware is Packet over SONET/SDH Description: "TAT14 Chan 14, fiber 2 to SeaGirt" Internet address is 192.108.195.29/30 MTU 4474 bytes, BW 39813120 Kbit reliability 255/255, txload 14/255, rxload 0/255 Encapsulation HDLC, crc 32, controller loopback not set, keepalive not set Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:20:14 30 second input rate 145190000 bits/sec, 33312 packets/sec 30 second output rate 2277465000 bits/sec, 333788 packets/sec 38828898 packets input, 20633312397 bytes, 10 total input drops 0 drops for unrecognized upper-level protocol Received 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles, 0 parity 10 input errors, 10 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort 325196864 packets output, 276372852009 bytes, 0 total output drops 0 output errors, 0 underruns, 0 applique, 0 resets 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out --Peter