[97873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jul 12 20:25:06 2007
In-Reply-To: <4696B668.2080807@inoc.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:51:49 -0400
To: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Robert Blayzor wrote:
>
> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> 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
>> "LC - optical amplification - LC"
>
>
> Well yes, the technology is quite cool, I'm not debating that. The
> fact that it works at his mothers house (residential) doesn't
> really have any significance. I don't think you have anyone out
> there debating against caping out the upper limits of bandwidth on
> what we can get over a single strand of glass.
>
> I look at this article and say "so what". Now you've gotten the
> packets to the house. Now what? Wait 10, 15 or 20 years while
> companies try to find ways to get content do you? 1500 HD
> channels, thats a lot of TV sets. You can have all the bandwidth
> you want, but but until there an actual use for 40Gbps at the home
> all you're going to have is the worlds fastest BitTorrent or on net
> porn PPV network.
Uncompressed HD TV (typically 1.54 Gbps / channel) comes to mind, for
which there are applications, albeit typically not residential so far.
See, e.g.,
http://www.gloriad-kr.org/hdtv/
http://ultragrid.east.isi.edu/2005-02-APAN.pdf
Regards
Marshall
>
> How practical is it really also that you need CRS-1 at the
> residence for this. I agree with Sean. Since for most people the
> line card alone costs more than the house. :-)
>
> -Robert
