Re: Three states for a binary bit

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <20164.976092509@dstc.edu.au>, George Michaelson writes:
>
>(As I have said before on end2end), with optical switching coming, why
>can't we go back to true phone-wire 'real C not VC' and have IP packets
>select wavepaths with complete end2end lamda?
>
>use IP as layering, but use dedicated physical path where possible.

Because there are far too few lambdas available to permit any intensive 
use of this scheme.

		--Steve Bellovin