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To: marginnayan who wrote (104156)	9/9/2001 9:31:57 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Marginnayan. ""They have yet to figure a way as to how to route (switch) a packet present in wavelength without converting that wavelength part into real electronic IP packet."" The idea behind fiber networks is that all data is broadcast to the whole network. It doesn't need to be switched -- just made to be present everywhere. This is possible because the fiber network has huge capacity. Then, at the endpoints of the fiber network, the data packets destined to that point are plucked from the broadcast data stream.