[49921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Fri Jul 12 14:31:56 2002
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: Chris Kilbourn <kilbo-list@forest.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v04210100b954bb9cf06d@[216.168.62.213]>
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> Add in the fact that optical sniffing, while not impossible by any means
> today, will increasingly become non-trivial as bandwidth increases. Which
> is exactly one of the 'problems' they expect optical network to solve.
You mean just expensive, right? i.e. a couple transponders and an OC48 or
OC192 switch.
-Ralph
