RE: flat vs non-flat charging

["David J. Schmidt" <davids () on-ramp ior com>]

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:

> Steven:
>
> New municipal and campus WDM gear from Cambrian, Ciena and Nortel  makes it
> a lot easier and cheaper to deliver data services over separate WDM channels
> than to MUX them into one SONET or ATM service.  More importantly becuase
> the service is data transparent, each customer can manage their own WDM
> channel independent of the other channels. Try doing that with SONET or
> ATM!!
>
> Check out www.cambrian.com for more details.
>
> However, I agree with you that if you have spare fiber it is cheaper just to
> light up the fiber without WDM or SONET.  Packet Engines claims they can
> drive 22km of dark fiber with no additional equipment or repeaters

Actually, the word is "demonstrates", not "claims".  :-)

At Networld+Interop we had a 12,000 ft spool of fiber with 6 pairs of
fiber.  The 6 12,000 ft lengths were patches to provide a total of 72,000
ft of fiber and portions of our booth were run through that entire length. 
Not only that, but the 5 connections between the 6 lengths were done with
normal patch cables and SC connectors (which are more lossy than a fusion
splice).

I work for Packet Engines as SQA manager and that spool is now in our demo
area about 50 ft. away and we're still running voice, video and data 
through it for our demo's.

> Bill
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Bill St Arnaud
> Director Network Projects
> CANARIE
> bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca
> http://www.canarie.ca/bstarn

davids () packetengines com        Packet Engines, Inc.  (509)922-9190
http://www.packetengines.com/   Spokane, WA           (509)922-9185 (fax)