Hmmm- This discussion brings to mind a great prof of physics I had who wrote an asymptotic equation on the board, and then held up a baseball asking a simple and obvious question. "If I toss this ball out of an airplane at 50,000 feet, will it reach terminal velocity?
We all said, looking at the equation and wondering about going back to something so basic, "Umm. No."
This was the start of a lecture on the relationship between theory and experimental reality, in which he showed that this, and most mathematical representations of phenomena, are always partial. They work, to a point. Mathematics is a language of description - just like words.
But - back to our regularly scheduled program, trying to figure out what Silkroad has.
I have some other questions myself. For example:
1. Once deployed, does this technology have an upgrade path? In DWDM it is clearly the case. I am not sure about this one. How much faster can it go - and what theoretical max can go over a single pipe?
2. It is better, but is it cost effectively better? Revolutionary technologies that provide an order of magnitude improvement are pretty much sure things. This one is a tweener. And the cost of operation?
3. Is the equipment a fire hazard inherently? If so, have they solved that?
Thoughts?
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