Re: Silicon-germanium routers?

[Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>]

On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:18 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:

> IBM and Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting with  
> silicon-
> germanium, it is said here:
>
>         http://tinyurl.com/g26bu
>
> I find this interesting having just attended NANOG 37 where some
> manufacturers of network devices told us in a panel that network
> heat problems weren't going away unless there's a 'next big thing'
> in manufacturing process.
>
> Is this it?

Nope, all this says is that with sufficient cooling you can go  
faster. What we need is going faster with less cooling.

W

> Corrolary: If our routers are made of silicon-germanium, would the
> CLI only operate in Deutsch?
>
> --
> David W. Hankins                "If you don't do it right the first time,
> Software Engineer                       you'll just have to do it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.               -- Jack T. Hankins

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A. No
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