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From: muir@postgres.uucp (David Muir Sharnoff)
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Subject: Re: Cryo-refrigerators
Keywords: breakthroughs refrigerators
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Date: 13 Mar 89 10:15:14 GMT
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In article <4409@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>expected - like optic fiber.  (The single-mode optic fibers that are in
>the ground right now, have an intrinsic bandwidth of 35,000 gigahertz,
>in the IR window alone. This time, it isn't a typo.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does this mean that you could store ~100GB
in a 3000 mile fiber loop?

Is an optical loop a viable storage medium?  Some benifits: n access points,
< 1 second access to ALL the data....  Problems: reliability.

-Dave
David Muir Sharnoff.			Postgres Research Project, UC Berkeley.
muir@postgres.berkeley.edu		(415) 524-2931