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To: saukriver who wrote (31287)	9/8/2000 8:21:39 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I looked through the Corvis website and found no references to optical router. All I could find were brief discussions about their all optical switch for wavelengths (the total beam). For example: "The Corvis Optical Switch (OS) is the industry's first all-optical wavelength switch. The OS eliminates the overlay of electrical switches at locations where multiple fibers intersect, thus simplifying node interconnections, reducing the footprint and the cost of the switch site, while increasing network flexibility. " I do not think they make any claim to be able to route, on the fly, the individual packets comprising several different data streams to multiple outgoing fibers. Corvis offers a switch that directs a complete light beam to a particular output fiber (e.g. go to Dallas instead of Fort Worth). Using switches like this along the entire path, this also allows one to almost instantly set up a leased beam path from my company to your company for the next half hour and then tear it down. Such a thing in the past used to take many days, even months to do. But this is just setting up a point-to-point "route" very much like a traditionally switched phone line, not a dynamically directed packet-by-packet re-direction of the various traffic from a single incoming beam. This setup-teardown scenario is a function of the Next Gen mesh architecture, not of this company's switches. Corvis just claims their's are smaller, faster, etc, etc, etc. --FL