The system successfully transmitted a 100-GbE signal from Tampa, FL, to Houston, TX, and back again, over ten 10Gbps channels through the Level 3 network. This is the first time a 100-GbE signal has been transmitted successfully through a live production network, claim the companies.
I say….so what!! There are no great technological breakthroughs here. This is nothing more than a demonstration of a ten lambda WDM link - each wavelength rinning at 10 Gbps. Those have been operational for years in the SONET/SDH world. With link aggregation - a technology that has existed for at least a decade, they claim 100 GbE link speeds.
Tell You What, lets try to get GM to have ten cars to go down the highway at 50 mph each. Then they can issue a press release claiming the “First ever demonstration of automobile travel at 500 mph!!!” Will you write about that?
November 15th, 2006 at 8:58 am
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“Tell You What, lets try to get GM to have ten cars to go down the highway at 50 mph each. Then they can issue a press release claiming the “First ever demonstration of automobile travel at 500 mph!!!” Will you write about that?”
I think its more like…
GM makes ten parts of a car go down the highway at 50 mph each peace…
But you have a point, there is NO great technological breakthrough here.