OC192 - 9.6 gigabits per second

[shiznut123]

OMG, there is this kid in my class who like to show off. He think he has the best computer parts and stuff. I asked him what his parents would do if he got very good grades. He said they would get him a t-3 computer.
I said "What's a t3 computer? T3 is an internet connection".
He said,"I know".
I say,"You jack@ass, can you afford it?".
He says,"yes".
WTF!!! He's a dumb@ss!!! His parents only make $4000 month and he can get t3!!!

 

[SuperKen!]

<< I wonder which big companies use OC256. Maybe EB@Y?Maybe Microsoft?Maybe Cisco? >>



No, No, and No. Bandwidth that large is not intended for the end user (or end company). It is used for internet backbone.

 

[austonia]

want to hear something funny? we have invested $500 million in Sprint ION. We have dozens of OC48 facilities and DWDM channels dedicated to ION routers. Guess how many customers we have.... 1,000. yup. good job, boys.

 

[austonia]

superken - actually we do sell OC48's to some customers. There are several dedicated just to AOL. I have no problem taking those suckers down LOL .. &quot;woops, did i do that?&quot;

 

[shiznut123]

So cable companies might use them?

 

[Unbornchicken]

what WOULD a DS3 (T3) line run (in terms of price per month)? fully dedicated of course.

this would be to a private residence (in-home business)

 

[Shockwave]

austonia, just curious, but where do you get your numbers? 1000 customers? Anyways, you dont happen to be TCC do you?

 

[Hanpan]

I think you can get a t3 for about 10k maybe less if you stack some coupons or something

 

[Smurfwow]

there is a 120Gbps link installed at the moment through the pacific ocean. It makes use of DWDM.




[L]http://www.southerncrosscables.com/[/L]

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Those calculating OCX as X * 51Mbps = bandwidth are technically correct, but only in terms of gross bandwidth. The actual usable bandwidth of an OC1 is 49.536Mbps. Assuming the OC192 is not concatenated (which would give it less overhead, but if it were concatenated it would be designated with OC192c), the actual usable bandwidth is ~9.5 gbps

 

[thorin]

OPTera Long Haul Optical Line Systems provide optimized solutions to
support specific service requirements as well as all long haul applications. The OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System provides a modular architecture that can scale beyond 1 Tbps providing open optical interfaces (from 622 Mbps up to 10 Gbps and beyond) as well as flexible networking options (point to point, Optical Rings). The OPTera Long Haul 4000 Optical Line System is the first open 10 Gbps backbone that breaks the 4000 km barrier transporting at unprecedented distances without opto-electronic regeneration. These technology solutions offer carriers extremely low-cost easy to deploy bandwidth optimized for the particular requirement.

Linkage:
Optera 1600
Optera Line Systems

One of my neighbours does Shell development for OPTera routers, you should hear about the testing lab they had to setup for these, fed by Multiple OC192s.

Thorin