🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Gordon Cook wrote:

> When CANADA is going with an all optical and zero SONET research
> network, the press should be well advised to ask Doug van Howelling why
> Abeline is starting off SONET?  The only answer that occurs to me is that
> Abeline wants federally subsidized reliable high bandwitdh for university
> PRODUCTION USES.  In the meantime the ultimate irony is that the 30% DNS
> surcharge helps fund plain vanilla high speed university connections while
> CANARIE does the all optical network which the US lacks the leadership to
> do.

Canada has usually been ahead of the USA in telecommunications but I
wouldn't let that worry you. Within a year or two American companies are
either buying the stuff from Canadian companies or else duplicating it
with their own gear.

> Poor precedent! And the US makes the wrong network
> research choices by banking on expensive SONET and leaving CANARIE to
> develop first SONETless net using TCP/IP over WDM......

No doubt there are some US companies closely following the CANARIE
deployment and ready to pounce on the idea as soon as it is proven in the
field. Relax, it's not like Canada is Iraq's largest trading partner or
anything.

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