[11099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wilson)
Mon Jul 21 18:07:08 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Wilson <cbw@atlantic.net>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707212126.RAA06332@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I have a friend who's in the high speed optoelectronics biz and
> already does lots of OC-[N] equipment, and I mentioned to him that I
> thought that there was probably a market for PCI cards that spoke IP
> over OC-3/OC-12. Before I strongly encourage him to do this, I was
> curious as to whether anyone else felt there was a real market for
> such things.
I was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications
handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to
push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)
Chris
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