OC-768 availability?
Kurt Erik Lindqvist
kurtis at kurtis.pp.se
Tue Jul 30 08:16:51 UTC 2002
--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <blitz at macronet.net> 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.
...and :
a) Someone got the money to buy the gear
b) We have used the current capacity (see a).
- kurtis -
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