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What do you mean by "their own"? There's nothing about SONET/SDH that's specific to undersea cables.
by danellis 5y ago
What do you mean by "their own"? There's nothing about SONET/SDH that's specific to undersea cables.
- ricardobeat 5y ago"Their own" in opposition to TCP/IP and wires. May not have been the best choice of words.
- maccolgan 5y agoL1 & L2 protocols are not even relevant to TCP/IP and "wires".
- ricardobeat 5y ago[Quite often I'll think twice before commenting on HN due to this type of out of context, knee-jerk retort. It is really not adding to the conversation or helping anyone learn anything new.] SONET has optical networking in its name. It appears to me that data not being transmitted over copper wires is a pretty crucial aspect of it... but really none of this matters as I was simply pointing out that TCP is not relevant to the speed record, in answer to the top two comments above, and not trying to make any absolute assertions about how the transport protocol works. So yes, you're right, I guess?