Silicon-germanium routers?

Warren Kumari warren at kumari.net
Tue Jun 20 20:22:21 UTC 2006


On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:18 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:

> IBM and Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting with  
> silicon-
> germanium, it is said here:
>
> 	http://tinyurl.com/g26bu
>
> I find this interesting having just attended NANOG 37 where some
> manufacturers of network devices told us in a panel that network
> heat problems weren't going away unless there's a 'next big thing'
> in manufacturing process.
>
> Is this it?

Nope, all this says is that with sufficient cooling you can go  
faster. What we need is going faster with less cooling.

W

>
>
> Corrolary: If our routers are made of silicon-germanium, would the
> CLI only operate in Deutsch?
>
> -- 
> David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the first time,
> Software Engineer			you'll just have to do it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins

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A. No
Q. Is it sensible to top-post?





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