Re: OC-768 availability?

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>]

--On Monday, July 29, 2002 21:32:02 -0400 blitz <blitz () 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 -