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To: Regis McConnell who wrote (527)9/2/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (2) of 626
 
There is no way that WDM will ever be any kind of solution. It is only a problem that can't be solved. WDM is not pure optical, rather it's electro-optical. It's clinging to stone knives and bear skins. There's too many variables.

Reminds me of magnetic bottle controlled nuclear fusion. As soon as you whip up a solution to one problem the solution permits another problem to pop up in an area which was previously stable. With fusion the number of new problems diverges with the number of solutions. The outcome has been that fusion is in limbo. When the oil runs out it's the fire that time, so we'd better find a new source of power.

Currently SRSC handles 10k channels of 10 mbps. All those channels would be available everywhere in the Metro net. They can be aggregated or reduced opto-mechanically according to demand. There is no backbone. There are no electronics. Just one fiber connecting all the points. Just pumps and splitters at nodes of origination and termination.
Need more throughput? Use the abundance of fibers pulled under the mistaken notion that primitive technologies would be the only ones available in the future, to add Metro2. Or Metro3, or Metron. We have too much fiber in the 'bone and none to the home.

All the above is inevitable, so companies like CSCO, LU, NT, you know the whole bunch of bloated useless antiquated obsolescing dinosaurs, are headed for the junk heap unless they can change into optical companies.
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