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Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Wed Oct 8 17:07:04 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:13:14 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Cc: nweaver@cs.berkeley.edu
Message-ID: <20031008201314.GB2031@leitl.org>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:03:20PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
>=20
> There is a hypothetical Gb optical network link between here and the
> moon, used for storage.
There's a considerable mileage of GBit/s (3 bit/m) fiber present, with
10 GBit/s (30 bit/m) consumer-grade networking in the pipeline, and ~TBit/s
(3 kBit/m) data rates feasible. =20
=20
> So who cares? Why juggle when shelves hold so much more?
Fiber is perfect FIFO for packets in photonically switched networks.
That way you avoid costly photon-electron-photon conversion, and
can even achieve relativistic cut-through routing/switching with
proper header layout.
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