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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (171686)10/21/2002 10:46:39 PM
From: ptanner  Respond to of 186894
 
re: new Agere switching chip

I am just playing with the numbers but I wonder how big the market is for these.

Assume everyone in the world is on a phone call at the same time -> 6B /2 = 3B calls. Each chip can handle 320,000 simultaneous calls so about 10,000 chips are needed. I am sure there are multiple levels to connect the calls so perhaps multiple this by a factor of 10 (100,000 chips) or 100 (1M chips).

Data needs are of course much higher than voice.

-PT


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