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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (25619)	2/28/2008 2:25:14 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	of 46821

OFC: Qwest CTO maps optical’s future [discusses hurdles to be overcome before meshing becomes widespread] Feb 26, 2008 \| By Ed Gubbins \| San Diego Pieter Poll, Qwest Communications’ chief technology officer, described some of the innovations critical to the future of optical networks, but he also identified hurdles to the commercial implementation of those innovations in a speech at the OFC NFOEC show today. Qwest is seeing demand today for 40 Gb/s links today, Poll said, but the economics of the technology are still problematic. Though carriers complained a year ago at this show that the cost of 40 Gb/s needed to come down, those costs are still too high, he said. “The cost advantage on the IP side drives us to use n-by-10 GigE meshes versus 40 Gb/s pipes.” [FAC: Note, the last sentence above includes an inappropriate use of the term "meshes" when instead the official was referring to 10 Gbps "bundles" - e.g., creating a 40 Gbps pipe by combining four (4) x 10 Gbps pipes through multilinking techniques (aka channel bonding, platooning, etc.)] Cont.: telephonyonline.com ------

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