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To: ftth who wrote (455)	8/6/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 626

You have it wrong. It is eminently compatible with existing systems. SRSC takes their output and massages it into mega-state, transmits it, and demods mega-state back to their output and delivers it in the way their equipment sent it. The idea of replacing what exists isn't yet correct. They couldn't come to market that way. They're starting as an enhancement of the long haul where so much infrastructure already exists. In places where there is no infrastructure like in Madeira they can take a comprehensive approach and use other local technologies to leverage the huge potential throughput. Can't do that with heavily constrained local systems as are found here.

To: ftth who wrote (455)	8/6/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 626

".. in other words this fits the textbook definition of a discontinuous innovation--not compatible with existing systems." Not exactly. Rather, it appears to me that it may excel in how it treats some point solutions, like very dense flows over long distances, rather well. But it may not be well suited at this time for other opportunities, such as those which already contain traditional traffic types at the lower levels, like those whose integral elements usually facilitate subordinate channel grooming and filling, through individual time slot management techniques. What emerges from this appears to be the following: SR may be an ideal means of aggregating already-aggregated flows... super flows, if you will, like OC-192s, GbE's, Fibre Channels, "groups" of TV channels, etc., if the technology performs as advertised. It can conceivably be used, in other words, to ship those flows in their native forms as super aggregates. At the terminating SR unit, each of these aggregations could be split off and sent to the types of devices which are best suited to handling them. E.g., Gb/Tb routers, digital cross connects, Storage Area Networks (SANs, NASs) which employ Fibre Channel, and Future I/Os, etc.