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March 21, 2007 archive

Mar 21

DWDM Limitations – how far is too far?

By Jesse in DWDM, Fibrechannel, Latency, Replication

I saw this post on http://lordegg.wordpress.com and felt that the comment I posted to him there would make pretty good topic here. Most people don’t understand that the speed of light has become a serious limitation in computing.Â Even the original Cray, which was installed in Los Alamos in 1976, had some million individual wires …

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Yes, Including that one.

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I'm vendor agnostic. I don't get into religious arguments about what is best for other people. That's a stupid argument. Different technologies work better for different people, and who am I to judge.

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DWDM Limitations – how far is too far?

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