josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) (03/15/89)
> 3000 miles x (50 microns)^2 = .012 cubic meters, or about 12 liters. > Paul F. Dietz Right you are. I'm gonna fire my blackboard. :^) You still don't want to go through 3000 miles of fiber in one shot. Your best bet is to have as many small loops as you can afford drivers for-- the whole thing is very similar to disk in terms of latency etc. --JoSH