OC-768 availability?
Scott Granados
scott at graphidelix.net
Tue Jul 30 18:05:05 UTC 2002
And my question is that a real oc768 or a Sears oc768. Like Cisco, sure
its a gig E port but oh wait, you wanted to use it for more than 200
mb/s?
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, blitz wrote:
>
> I believe many are working on it, but I haven't seen/heard of much progress
> since I learned of this, some 4 years ago now..
> Add to that the bandwidth glut with all the DWDM and I guess they've got
> breathing room...
>
> At 09:34 7/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >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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