Re: All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads]

[Ralph Doncaster <ralph () istop com>]

> Add in the fact that optical sniffing, while not impossible by any means
> today, will increasingly become non-trivial as bandwidth increases. Which
> is exactly one of the 'problems' they expect optical network to solve.

You mean just expensive, right? i.e. a couple transponders and an OC48 or
OC192 switch.

-Ralph