OC-768 availability?

John Kinsella jlk at thrashyour.com
Tue Jul 30 03:08:09 UTC 2002


HP was working on a "buble" switching device, I think the project's
dead.

John

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:53:43PM -0700, Scott Granados wrote:
> 
> 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.
> > >
> > >-- Dalph Roncaster
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