[50456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OC-768 availability?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Tue Jul 30 04:18:39 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:16:51 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <blitz@macronet.net> 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.
...and :
a) Someone got the money to buy the gear
b) We have used the current capacity (see a).
- kurtis -
