KYA27 (aka JBZIPPERS, aka Nato271),
Let me take this opportunity to respond to you here, in a more civilized environment than the Yahoo NT thread where you insist on auto-spamming your message.
I think it's fair to say that we've all read the article regarding NT's OPTera 1600G that contains the reference to Lucent trying out a laser four times faster than Nortel's. Further, I think it's safe to assume that we all know how to read for comprehension. We get it. No need to post the same few words from that article over and over and over. We get it.
Now, what exactly did the article say? Not much, IMO. The article stated that Lucent is testing a laser four times faster than NT's? In what way? It doesn't say. Could be a single laser operating at 40Gb/s. Could be a device operating with 640 wavelenghts. We don't know, or at least the article doesn't state which. My guess is the author intended the former, so I will go with that assumption.
OK, so Lucent will be testing a 40Gb/s laser and have it available Q1 of next year. Sounds fine. But, is that just the laser? Or an entire transmission system? Don't know, the article doesn't say. Lucent does build and sell discrete components in addition their switching systems. Could it be that Lucent will have just the laser ready next year? If so, what about a transport product that uses it? The article doesn't say one way or the other.
Also, is it just a single wavelength at 40Gb/s? Or a tunable laser that may have application in DWDM products? Don't know. All that can be inferred from the article is a single laser, presumably operating at 40Gb/s. Hmmm. Let's see, one 40Gb/s laser on one fiber yields 40Gb/s or 160 lasers on one fiber yields 1.6Tb/s?
Which one's the monster? I don't really expect a rational rebuttal from you, you'll most likely just auto-spam back your own words at me in a feeble attempt at... something.
Regards,
Lerxst
ps - To the other LU thread follower's, my apologies for dragging this into your arena. I have no intent to bash LU in any manner and hopefully did not do so. |
