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To: Tulvio Durand who wrote (30185)	12/13/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Does this mean that "all-optical" includes CSCO's GSR 1216 router (ie., is GSR 1216 an all optical device)?. No, not at all. The OC-192c interface, as I understand it, is a Packet-Over-SONET, POS, interface. That means a SONET frame payload is filled with encapsulated ip datagrams. The significance of this is the optoelectronics in the interface card to do this. Working at OC-192c datastream speeds electrically is a MAJOR step forward in router technology and the interface output and input is a true OC-192c (optical)