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Re: is there a market for this?

  • From: Scott Huddle
  • Date: Mon Jul 21 19:02:01 1997 
Check out www.vbns.net page on the OC-3 monitor.  OC3 over PCI.

-scott

At 06:02 PM 7/21/97 -0400, Chris Wilson wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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>> 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 was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications
>handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
>serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
>reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to
>push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)
>
>Chris
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