RE: OC-768 availability?

["Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>]

FYI, the technology seems like it might be available at the component level
(dated 3/2002)

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020313S0015

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020430/sftu082_1.html (april 2002?)

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/15808.htm (7/13/2002)

Deepak Jain
AiNET

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Dr. Mosh
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: OC-768 availability?
>
>
>
> 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:
> > --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 -
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