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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: Techplayer who wrote (6047)11/22/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Bandwidth so cheap there is no usage bill?
I found this on the CIEN thread regarding LU's big splash with a mechanical (i.e. moving mirrors really!) optical router:

Arun Netravali, named president of Bell Labs last month, made seven predictions for communications in the next millennium at Lucent's Media Day this past week.

Netravali predicted that bandwidth will become too cheap to meter, billing systems will be dramatically simpler and service, not bandwidth, will become the key factor in charging customers. Service will be more important because the cost of transporting a bit over an optical network is now declining by half every nine months.

The LambdaRouter is based on Bell Labs' MicroStar technology, in which an array of tiny micromechanical mirrors is positioned so that each mirror is illuminated by a single wavelength. The mirrors are tilted so that an individual wavelength can be passed to any of 256 input and output fibers. All 256 mirrors are fabricated on less than one square inch of silicon. This compact switching fabric provides a switching density more than 32 times greater than electronic fabrics today. And with no optical-electrical-optical conversion, the LambdaRouter switch fabric will provide a reduction in power consumption 100 times greater than electronic fabric solutions.
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