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To: Bulldozer who wrote (3522)12/30/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: BDR  Read Replies (1) of 24042
 
I wonder if you could perhaps comment on a technical question? How important is the prospect of an all optical switch, as opposed to the current optoelectrical switches, to the facilitation of data transmission? Does current technology represent a significant bottleneck?

Bell Labs is active in researching this area, I gather, and Lucent claims to already have a product which appears to be the size of a large refrigerator:
lucent-optical.com
At the other end of the scale Nanovision, a development stage company, claims to also have one that utilizes nanotechnology but there is very little information that I can find on it.
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