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Re: All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for BellHeads]

  • From: Ralph Doncaster
  • Date: Fri Jul 12 14:33:52 2002 
> Add in the fact that optical sniffing, while not impossible by any means
> today, will increasingly become non-trivial as bandwidth increases. Which
> is exactly one of the 'problems' they expect optical network to solve.

You mean just expensive, right? i.e. a couple transponders and an OC48 or
OC192 switch.

-Ralph