Re: OC-768 availability?

[blitz <blitz () macronet net>]

I believe many are working on it, but I haven't seen/heard of much progress 
since I learned of this, some 4 years ago now..
Add to that the bandwidth glut with all the DWDM and I guess they've got 
breathing room...

At 09:34 7/30/02 -0700, you wrote:

> 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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