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To: LindyBill who wrote (22342)	4/5/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

but you can't route packages with optical There may not be any full optical routers for sale now. I can imagine ways to switch light packets with light. One way would be to have a pizo-electric crystal bonded with a photo-sensitive material with a small part silvered mirror polished in it. If at the critical moment light is shining down the pipe it will partially split at the mirror, the split beam would energize the photo-sensitive material which activates the pizo-crystal to shift the mirror slightly. (If no light is shining the mirror does not shift). Then light wave would be re-amplified. This is the basis for a logic circut. I don't think there is a product that does this yet, but if I can think up something that might work, imagine what those engineers at JDSU or SLDI are thinking up. My point is that one of these days someone is going to claim to have an optical router and they will be telling the truth. TP

To: LindyBill who wrote (22342)	4/6/2000 12:05:00 AM
From: buck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

RE: routing light (not to mention hideous thread bloat) you can't route packages with optical And I never imagined I'd see real-time stock quotes on my Dick Tracy wrist-radio either. The term "routing" has become so standardized, and at the same time, so twisted, it's almost impossible to say just what routing is anymore. Once upon a time, we had a seven-layer model that defined networks, and it was goodness. Now, it's so squished, it hardly matters any more. You're either at the top with an application or the bottom with a bunch of photons. There's a few places left in the middle to make some money, but they're getting squished further every day. I quit saying "can't" about networking roughly five years ago, when SONET busted out. Nothing and everything surprises me now. These are after all photons, which have properties, and can be measured, if I remember my Stephen Hawking correctly. If it can be measured, it can be routed. I just hope I have enough legs left to find this company and go sell this stuff to a lot of large corporations before a big, fat over-valued Gorilla like Cisco buys it. buck It seems like somewhere in here Heisenberg's principle about observation comes into play, but I ain't sure where.

To: LindyBill who wrote (22342)	4/9/2000 7:35:00 AM
From: tripperd2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Re: JDSU acquisition of Cronus. I will briefly step out of lurk mode to post a link to a nice summary of the conference call re: JDSU's acquisition of Cronus. Though I still do not believe my "fave" company is anything more than an oversized king, they sure do seem to dominate their sector. Also in the summary is reference to the ETEK acq. Although I get nervous with JDSU during the wild market fluctuations,Kalkhoven has my confidence. boards.fool.com Trip@PE(trailing)NA.com