[50449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OC-768 availability?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Mon Jul 29 22:54:19 2002
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Granados <scott@graphidelix.net>
To: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: <dalph@hushmail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020729212651.03521ec0@mail.macronet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Wasn't one of the major switch companies working on a system of bubbles.
<seriously> I'm not sure if it was foundry or Juniper or who but
someone was trying to route packets or rather switch packets in a device
at high speed by using bubbles to reflect and switch the light instead
of converting to electrons.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, blitz wrote:
>
> Seriously, I don't see OC768 coming online en masse until they get the
> kinks worked out of optical switching. The transit times are so short thru
> the innards, in the order of picoseconds, that electronics is way too slow
> to perform such mundane tasks like determining where a packet is supposed
> to go.
> Thus, all this will require optical computing to be available cheaply and a
> lot more widespread than it is now. Cross your fingers and hope for a
> quantum breakthrough...
> OC192 is already pushing the limits of present technology.
> And add to that, the sorry state of the major players in telecom, and I
> don't think you'll see them willing to pony up an investment in something
> like that until it's well established.
> A typical egg/chicken situation......
>
>
>
> At 16:10 7/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am currently running a network of cisco 2621s with the OC-192 NM for my
> >upstream connections. The internal network links are a mixture of K56Flex
> >modems and GRE tunnels.
> >
> >I am looking to upgrade to OC-768 real soon now and am wondering what the
> >prospects are for OC-768 availability on the 2621 platform. I've found the
> >2621 to be rock-solid, except when I ping it, so I'd like to keep my
> >network on that platform if possible.
> >
> >In addition, if anyone knows the availability of OC-768 circuits between
> >the following cities I'd appreciate any fiber maps and an approximate
> >price range:
> >Ottawa, ON, CA
> >Midland, ON, CA
> >Goderich, ON, CA
> >Toronto, ON, CA
> >Compton, CA, US
> >Sealand
> >
> >At each site I plan to announce a /24 from a /20 I was allocated so if
> >everyone could please update their prefix filters now that would be great.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >-- Dalph Roncaster
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