re: Optical TaxonomyGotham was showing off its product and line cards at NANOG. Guess what? Their control card does not support ECC for the memory. God help the service provider that deploys Gotham's ECC-less switchless switch with no parity checking, and completely unaware that the forwarding table entries have been corrupted !!!
re: Optical TaxonomySycamore claims that they have "Transport" devices (SN 8000 and SN 10000)and "Switching" devices (SN 3000, SN 4000, and SN 16000). What is the difference and how does this fit into the taxonomy? Are the Sycamore devices work only on layer 2? If so, how do they get from an IP address to an MPLS label?
re: Optical TaxonomySCMR,TELM,CORV and CIEN compete with each other to provide the intelligent optical transport solution which is scalable up to 256 OC-48 or 64 OC-192 or mix of these OC-48 and OC-192 and bandwidth can be provisioned at STS-1 level granularity ( DS-3). The fact is still DS-3 is manually provisioned.
re: Optical TaxonomyI'd like to see examples of actual *products* from each category along with explanations of the distinctions between them. For example, is the Lucent NX64000 Multiterabit Switch/Router an optical on-ramp, an IP Services Switch, or a Next-Generation Core Router/Switch? Why?
re: Optical TaxonomyI spoke to one of their executives recently and this person has no clue what they are doing. This is going to be another optical bubble which will burst soon!. Gosh why are these people wasting VC's money?
Good idea. Let me know if you want to team up on the project.
Dave