OC-768 availability?

Dr. Mosh nanog at zeromemory.com
Tue Jul 30 16:34:44 UTC 2002


I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 interface under testing if I'm not
mistaken...


Signal received  0.  Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis at kurtis.pp.se> said:
> 
> 
> 
> --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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