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So, I did a bunch of research about PON a couple years ago. When we were looking at our metro Ethernet deployment, PON was something we considered to get coverage for our more dense locations.

PON: basically a passive splitter 4 way that’s again split with an 8way. Giving you up to 32 ONTs. It’s shared. Kind of like the old 10base2. or 10base5 or arcnet Except it’s fiber rather than copper

Somebody did a search on my web site for the above topic.

using vpls for e-line

This is a pretty interesting question.

On the one hand you could use RFC 4447, using LDP to setup Pseudowire connections between two PEs. That’s pretty simple, straight forward, and with minimal amount of resources that get carved up by the PEs terminating the VC Virtual Connection.  Read more... (440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Front page of the WSJ had a caption about Relational Investors, LLC reported that they had become the largest shareholder in L3 Communications and is pushing for a breakup of the Firm.

My jaw dropped and I paged through to B2 to see the article about the breakup of L3.  Read more... (152 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

GE just bought a new computer.

Cores : 1,536 or 2,304 processor cores per system cabinet
Peak Performance : 12.2 to 20.2 teraflops per system cabinet

Yes, it uses 10Gigabit Ethernet for IO and uses 100Mbit Ethernet between nodes. Had to get Ethernet in there somehow.

Wow, 20.2 teraflops.  Read more... (313 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

You know that startup mentality? That everybody is running in all different directions, working long hours, forming strategic pockets to complete projects? a group goes off in a direction figures out the best thing for a customer and sells it to the customer? There are no committee’s There are no large teams with multi tiered processes that have to be followed. It’s just a group of committed people pushing to make the company the best it can be. That’s essentially the startup mentality. But that doesn’t just have to be a startup.  Read more... (324 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)