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Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jul 12 19:34:58 2007

Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:14:22 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707130039220.29164@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> I have to disagree, considering the amount of people I've had to convice
> that this really is a single 50GHz wave using 40G per second over DWDM
> system designed for 10G and that it was router

which is, i believe, the point of the publicity stunt.  unfortunately,
it does not help with us needing 100GE and more in the pop where this
stuff aggregates.  and, for those who remember when peter did the
similar stunt to make the POS point, let's hope cisco does not try to
sell us a merlin-like hack to deal with it until the ieee gets off its butt.

randy

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