Re:This is NOT a router! (Score 1)

Well, in the world of optical communications, the word wavelength router has been around for years, if not for decades, to mean a device that can direct light with different wavelength from a single fiber to designated spots. In that sense, it is a router. If one confines the definition of router to mean "data packet router" in electronic sense, maybe your argument stands... (I do agree that it is not an optical computing component!!) Obviously, sending information down an optical fiber by lining up information from 100 different people in series, as done today, is not the smartest way to do things. If you use 100 different colors instead, the information can be routed all-optically, without having to read the header (storing the data in a buffer) and deciding from that where it should go. Once you go to an all-optical system, the routing can be much faster than the present "data-packet" approach. Well, all-optical communication will be much different from the communication we know as of today, and it looks like there is a lot you have to learn!!! Welcome to the new world of optical communications!!!