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Re: OC-768 availability?
- From: Dr. Mosh
- Date: Tue Jul 30 12:36:57 2002
I believe Junpier does have a OC-768 interface under testing if I'm not
mistaken...
Signal received 0. Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> said:
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> --On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <blitz@macronet.net> wrote:
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> > 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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