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RE: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ layer0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Mon Dec 15 07:42:57 2014
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To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>, <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:42:28 -0500
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Those photonic switches are getting cheaper because a ton of people make th=
em now and the components aren't really very expensive. Of course the cost=
is relative, and I don't know what an electromechanical switch might cost.=
Glimmerglass, Calient, Polatis were some of the early ones but I've seen =
a bunch of vendors with 192/384 systems. =20
Phil
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From: "Arnold Nipper" <arnold@nipper.de>
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To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.phil@gmail.com>; "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.o=
rg>
Subject: Re: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ lay=
er0)
On 11.12.2014 01:33, Phil Bedard wrote:
> Curious what the use case is where a photonic or L1 switch wouldn't get=20
> the job done? =20
>=20
Just a matter of costs, Phil. Of course a photonic switch would also do
th job. But I neither need the speed of switching over nor all the other
features a photonic switch offers. Makes sense?
Arnold
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