30 Jul
2002
30 Jul
'02
4:16 a.m.
--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 -