Goals

• Forward IP at optical speeds

  • 1Tbps=1Gpkt/Sec = 1ns per packet

• Not incur excessive delay in forwarding

  • handoff to electrical (even parallel) logic unacceptably slow!

• Not incur excessive cost in optical router

  • Can’t build v. clever cheap optical logic yet…..

• Do all this by end of 2001

  • Cannot wait for optical device people…so?

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