On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 02:56:47PM -0600, Matt Erculiani wrote: > In short, the idea is that optical networks are wasteful and routers do a > better job making more use of a network's capacity than ROADMs. Take the > extra router hop (or 3 or 8) versus short-cutting it with an optical > network because the silicon is so low-latency anyway that it hardly makes a > difference now. Putting more GBs per second on fewer strands means saving a > lot of money on infrastructure costs.
This is a very convoluted way of backing into the ole packet-switched vs. circuit switched decision. -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__