Dale, I'd like to thank you for posting that link. Up until now this SilkRoad tech has been an enigma to me, I didn't know they had such a link...
Now, to digest it, and try to come to terms with its suitability to riding over multiple lambda within the same fiber, even though they state explicitly that their's is not a WDM tech. Anyone have any thoughts or reached any conclusions on this? If they can contain each multi-gigabit stream, in other words, within established optical linewidths then this tech would not be mutually exclusive with WDM.
OTOH, if their spectral requirements per flow exceeds today's 100 GHz channel definitions (or whatever they are for any given DWDM form factor) inclusive of guard bands, then, I think that there is (1) cause to give this a serious look, (2) maybe some cause for concern with re to "today's" DWDM form factors, and (3) cause for beginning to consider designing new splitters (DWDMs) to satisfy these new optical form factors, if such is the case.
Of course, all of this depends on their gear working in all pertinent operating environments to begin with.
Just some thoughts, and some initial head-scratching after reviewing their site information for the first time. Comments and elucidation welcome.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
