[49987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Mon Jul 15 09:42:01 2002
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:47:16 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207121430210.21776-100000@cpu1693.adsl.bellglobal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 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.
Depending on what you are trying to gather, it will also become more
difficult at higher speeds to due the data volume. But you are right in
that it's more about money than effort in the end.
- kurtis -
