On 12/28/24 00:31, Mike Hammett wrote:
*nods* for PtP, I agree. As a buyer (and a seller) waves, waves,
waves. As a seller, it's less stuff for me to manage. As a buyer, I
don't have to trust you on oversubscribing a wave because you can't.
You can oversubscribe the hell out of an Ethernet circuit, though.
Waves are much harder in a PtMP environment, especially with cross
connect costs.
That is a problem OpenXR has been designed to fix:
https://openxropticsforum.org
Infinera have already started shipping product:
https://www.infinera.com/innovation/xr-optics/
Mark.
