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To: Michael F. Donadio who wrote (3034)3/8/2000 11:16:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5853
 
Hello Michael,

> An all optical switch would be breakthrough technology. I
> do not know of others who have it. To the best of my
> knowledge Agilent is in partnership with Alcatel in
> making the switch.

With respect to Agilent ... while reading their web site I saw that they indicated that they could switch "hundreds of times per second" ... this seems *awful* slow to me ... seems like a couple of "library of congress" could slip by in that time ... ;-)

Anyone else see this or have comments?

Scott C. Lemon