Bill Manning wrote:

In fact... :)

To borrow from your FedEx model.. We can build bigger doors (MTU) but the conveyer belts are stuck at 100Mm/sec. We need faster conveyer belts! (waiting for HPPI-64 or G-Ether technologies w/ baited breath :) And then watch out 2-4Gbps backplanes... (that is aggregate right?)

Oh, well.

You do not need 2 or whatever Gbps backplanes to build terabit per second networks.

--vadim

Correct. I've got a terabit network on my desk right now. Its kind of simple and doesn't scale well... only two ports. But what can you expect from strands of fiber... :) --bill