[AusNOG] 100G/200G/400G coming down the pipe (so to speak)

[Ben Dale]

On 08/03/2012, at 9:11 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:

> On 8/03/2012 10:05 AM, Ben Dale wrote:
>> 
>> I think the exciting part about what's happening in DWDM at the moment is the move from grid-based channel selection to grid-less.  No more burning entire 10G lambdas on sub-rate services (FC8, I'm looking at you).  I think someone from Ericsson that presented on this at Commsday last year?  Very interesting stuff.
> 
> Gotta stop thinking of them as 10G lambdas. Start thinking of them as 100G lambdas,
> being burned up by annoying sub-rate 10G services... ;-)
> 
> P.
> 

touché!  

So to recap, that's large mountains of cash being burned through by 100G lambdas , being burned through by annoying sub-rate services...

Pretty much sums up all optical really : P