Category: Latency

The beatings will continue…

…Until morale improves. Trying to run 4, FCIP trunks over a half a DS3 is a lot like raising a teenager. Sometimes it looks like it’s working, but in reality it’s just screwing around playing video games. Actually, my favorite is that “Raising a teenager is like trying to nail JELL-O to a tree”  I’m …

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DWDM Limitations – how far is too far?

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.  Even the original Cray, which was installed in Los Alamos in 1976, had some million individual wires …

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