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To: James Fulop who wrote (13)	11/10/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 325

Message 11851076 "H. The Holy Grail - Optical Switches Although not a JDSU product, the optical switch is notable because it is the holy grail of optical networking. To date no one has definitively succeeded in creating one (although a company called Corvis claims success, and many others are working on it). Switches are commonplace in computer networking; they take an incoming electronic signal and send it along one of multiple paths, depending on the content of that signal. An optical switch would do the same thing, except that it would be switching light, without ever converting it to an electronic signal."