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Re: is there a market for this?

  • From: Dorian R. Kim
  • Date: Mon Jul 21 18:30:20 1997 
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> I have a friend who's in the high speed optoelectronics biz and
> already does lots of OC-[N] equipment, and I mentioned to him that I
> thought that there was probably a market for PCI cards that spoke IP
> over OC-3/OC-12. Before I strongly encourage him to do this, I was
> curious as to whether anyone else felt there was a real market for
> such things.

I don't know if there is a market for such things. Things would be different
if one could get OC-N switch to plug such things into... There is also issues
with PCI bus bandwidth limitation and such..

-dorian