[50476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OC-768 availability?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Tue Jul 30 13:44:17 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:43:31 -0400
To: "Dr. Mosh" <nanog@zeromemory.com>
From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20020730093444.A15671@zero.corp.publichost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I believe many are working on it, but I haven't seen/heard of much progress
since I learned of this, some 4 years ago now..
Add to that the bandwidth glut with all the DWDM and I guess they've got
breathing room...
At 09:34 7/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 interface under testing if I'm not
>mistaken...
>
>
>Signal received 0. Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> said:
> >
> >
> >
> > --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 -
>
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