FYI, the technology seems like it might be available at the component level (dated 3/2002) http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020313S0015 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020430/sftu082_1.html (april 2002?) http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/15808.htm (7/13/2002) Deepak Jain AiNET
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Dr. Mosh Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:35 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OC-768 availability?
I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 interface under testing if I'm not mistaken...
Signal received 0. Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> said:
--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz
<blitz@macronet.net> wrote:
Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse until they get the kinks worked out of optical switching. The transit times are so short thru the innards, in the order of picoseconds, that electronics is way too slow to perform such mundane tasks like determining where
a packet is
supposed to go. Thus, all this will require optical computing to be available cheaply and a lot more widespread than it is now.
...and :
a) Someone got the money to buy the gear
b) We have used the current capacity (see a).
- kurtis -
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