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- From: sg04@gte.com (Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: WDM and ATM
- Message-ID: <4906@ceylon.gte.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:50:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.040100.1249@atri.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
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- In article 1249@atri.curtin.edu.au, clarke@atri.curtin.edu.au (Nathan Clarke) writes:
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- ] That's correct, in an all optical network, WDM is used to route the data
- ] to the appropriate output port. We could then use the all optical
- ] network as a physical layer medium for an ATM switched network at layer
- ] 2. I don't see any "incompatibility".
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- I believe this sort of 2-layer scheme is being explored at Columbia U's
- CTR in an effort to create an all-glass network (or at least keep the
- electronics at the periphery, and do the switching and transport in the glass).
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