[11100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Jul 21 18:21:11 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:16:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
Reply-To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
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 don't know if there is a market for such things. Things would be different
if one could get OC-N switch to plug such things into... There is also issues
with PCI bus bandwidth limitation and such..
-dorian
