If you read the link I sent, it's actually quite small, and I was wrong in that no crystals are used--just a huge array of carefully-tilted microscopic mirrors.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:44:26 -0700, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl Youngblood wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:23:17 -0600, Justin Findlay > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:12:36AM -0600, Grant Robinson wrote: > >> > >>>Umm...Did you read the article? 300 Mbps does _not_ outperform fiber. > >>>Fiber is already well past this. Fiber carries light, so it is much > >>>more adaptable than most technologies, which makes it a great fit, as > >>>it will be able to carry more data in the future as technology > >>>advances. > >> > >>I heard once that a single fiber strand could sustain <quote, > >>confidence_level="ridiculously unqualified">100 Gbps</quote> and beyond, the only > >>limitation being the sending and receiving logic at either end. > > > > > > Another thing to consider is that fiber uses light for transmission > > and with light beams you can use different colors to store meaningful > > information. The theoretical limit of how much information can be > > stored in a rapidly changing beam of light is amazingly high. FYI, > > Lucent developed an all-optical Internet router few years ago to > > handle the very problem of the bottleneck at the receiving end > > (http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2000/june/5/3.html). Supposedly it > > used only mirrors and crystals and stuff like that so there was no > > loss in throughput. > > My goodness, I'll bet it was the size of a house! Dr. Selfridge once > showed me his all optical transistor...it could fit on your desktop. > > Bryan > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
