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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote on the NANOG mailing list:

> I have a friend who's in the high speed optoelectronics biz and
> already does lots of OC-[N] equipment, and I mentioned to him that I
> thought that there was probably a market for PCI cards that spoke IP
> over OC-3/OC-12. Before I strongly encourage him to do this, I was
> curious as to whether anyone else felt there was a real market for
> such things.

(Perry, I hope you don't mind me distributing your message like this!)

Hackers - please reply directly to Perry, not me.

Aled
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