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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: DUCT TAPE HAIR CLUB who wrote (9068)11/5/2000 5:09:45 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Duct Tape,

Optical chip fabrication is not my sweet spot, so maybe someone else may wish to comment with more authority. But I can offer you some general observations.

We've touched on chromophore developments at some length over in the New FCTF at times in the past. The low voltage prospect is one issue that is noteworthy, and it speaks to packaging and the ability to produce devices with low power consumption, which is a crucial metric when designing components that will be deployed in very large scale.

Whether or not you could do anything with such a keying rate (modulation rate) is something else. Simply being able to gate a beam at 100 Gb/s doesn't ensure you that you have the processing power to keep up with it for real world applications. Modulator rates are "pass-through" events and relatively passive in nature, in the overall scheme of real world applications. What's needed in addition to such a throughput rate using low power is something on the order of DSP functionality or special purpose processors (ASICs?) to massage and package those bits into useful applications, such as HDTV, holograms, or whatever. Without fully knowing the validity of the vendor's claims, there does appear to be some on-the-surface level of undue hype there, IMO. Maybe someone else can prove me wrong.

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