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Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl org>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:13:14 +0200
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:03:20PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
There is a hypothetical Gb optical network link between here and the moon, used for storage.
There's a considerable mileage of GBit/s (3 bit/m) fiber present, with 10 GBit/s (30 bit/m) consumer-grade networking in the pipeline, and ~TBit/s (3 kBit/m) data rates feasible.
So who cares? Why juggle when shelves hold so much more?
Fiber is perfect FIFO for packets in photonically switched networks. That way you avoid costly photon-electron-photon conversion, and can even achieve relativistic cut-through routing/switching with proper header layout. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Nicholas Weaver (Oct 08)
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- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage David Heigl (Oct 08)
- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Doug Moen (Oct 08)
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- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Aron Nimzovitch (Oct 09)
- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Nicholas Weaver (Oct 08)
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- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Michal Zalewski (Oct 08)
- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Eugen Leitl (Oct 08)
- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage der Mouse (Oct 09)
- Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Darren Reed (Oct 10)
- RE: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage Alun Jones (Oct 08)
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