OC-768 availability?

Tue Jul 30 02:53:43 UTC 2002

Wasn't one of the major switch companies working on a system of bubbles. 
 <seriously>  I'm not sure if it was foundry or Juniper or who but 
someone was trying to route packets or rather switch packets in a device 
at high speed by using bubbles to reflect and switch the light instead 
of converting to electrons.

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, blitz 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. Cross your fingers and hope for a 
> quantum breakthrough...
> OC192 is already pushing the limits of present technology.
> And add to that, the sorry state of the major players in telecom, and I 
> don't think you'll see them willing to pony up an investment in something 
> like that until it's well established.
> A typical egg/chicken situation......
> 
> 
> 
> At 16:10 7/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am currently running a network of cisco 2621s with the OC-192 NM for my 
> >upstream connections. The internal network links are a mixture of K56Flex 
> >modems and GRE tunnels.
> >
> >I am looking to upgrade to OC-768 real soon now and am wondering what the 
> >prospects are for OC-768 availability on the 2621 platform. I've found the 
> >2621 to be rock-solid, except when I ping it, so I'd like to keep my 
> >network on that platform if possible.
> >
> >In addition, if anyone knows the availability of OC-768 circuits between 
> >the following cities I'd appreciate any fiber maps and an approximate 
> >price range:
> >Ottawa, ON, CA
> >Midland, ON, CA
> >Goderich, ON, CA
> >Toronto, ON, CA
> >Compton, CA, US
> >Sealand
> >
> >At each site I plan to announce a /24 from a /20 I was allocated so if 
> >everyone could please update their prefix filters now that would be great.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
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