Re: Routed optical networks

[joel () joelesler net]

> On May 13, 2023, at 4:03 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 5/12/23 22:14, Mike Hammett wrote:
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> > "I remember 10y ago every presentation started from the claim that 100B of IoT would drive XXX traffic. It did not 
> > happen"
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> > Often the type of people making these kinds of predictions that a tire pressure sensor generates 20 gigabytes of 
> > traffic a day.
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> I like growing old... your BS detector becomes so slick, you know to ignore certain links, conferences, speakers, 
> topics, meetings, slideware, e-mails, colleagues and announcements without fear of actually missing out on trends, 
> because you know that in the end it will lead to nowhere real :-).


As a security guy.  The end of year “prediction for next year” papers are wearing me out.  As an author of several of 
the big ones, I’m over it too