[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:39:11 -0400, John Francini wrote:
> Interestingly, the IEEE proposals out there for 40-gigabit and 100-
> gigabit talk about ganging 4 or 10 10-gigabit *fiber* connections
> together -- I would have thought that they could just use multiple

Odd. Very odd.

The early adopters of such high speed links are likely to _very_ much
prefer anything that keeps the fibre count down. After all if you run
out of fibres in your 100km duct, the cost of digging a new one is
likely to be high enough to cause a very intensive search for
alternatives.

>From what I can tell, JANET's 40Gbps packet over SONET link to
Telehouse is running over two fibers. It definitely isn't using any
more fibers than the previous 10Gbps link.

> colors (frequencies) over the *single* fiber without interference,
> using prisms to join/split the colors.  Or am I being way too
> simplistic?

Perhaps, but it's being worked on. Google for MONET.


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