Who cares? Agilent advertises a sub 10ms switching system. Lucent's Wavestar Lambdarouter advertises a sub 1ms switching using their microstar MEMS system. I lifted the following off of Lucent's website. I hope they don't mind my pimping their system: "The optical layer bandwidth management used in the WaveStar LambdaRouter is made available thanks to Lucent Technologies MicroStar Technology. MicroStar Technology leverages Bell Labs' patented research in the area of Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. "MicroStar technology is used to attain relatively large switching fabrics with sub-millisecond switching speed and a small product footprint. MicroStar relies on an array of hundreds of electrically configurable microscopic mirrors fabricated on a single substrate to direct light. The switching concept is based on freely moving mirrors being rotated around micro-machined hinges." Lucent's Lambdarouter is already commercially available along with an entire sweet of complementary products. Agilent won't have their product available until late 2000. Sounds like a game of catch-up to me. All of these poor suckers who ran up the price of Agilent stock might want to get out while the getting is good. Check out these two companies websites and tell me who you think will win.
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Who cares? Agilent advertises a sub 10ms switching system. Lucent's Wavestar Lambdarouter advertises a sub 1ms switching using their microstar MEMS system. I lifted the following off of Lucent's website. I hope they don't mind my pimping their system: "The optical layer bandwidth management used in the WaveStar LambdaRouter is made available thanks to Lucent Technologies MicroStar Technology. MicroStar Technology leverages Bell Labs' patented research in the area of Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. "MicroStar technology is used to attain relatively large switching fabrics with sub-millisecond switching speed and a small product footprint. MicroStar relies on an array of hundreds of electrically configurable microscopic mirrors fabricated on a single substrate to direct light. The switching concept is based on freely moving mirrors being rotated around micro-machined hinges." Lucent's Lambdarouter is already commercially available along with an entire sweet of complementary products. Agilent won't have their product available until late 2000. Sounds like a game of catch-up to me. All of these poor suckers who ran up the price of Agilent stock might want to get out while the getting is good. Check out these two companies websites and tell me who you think will win.