Comment Re:No definitive explanation.. (Score 1) 110
What is the response speed of the system, how instantaneous is the light release?
It could open up a whole new world of optical TDM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multiplexing
I am just imagining someone sighing, walking over to the server room and whacking the multiplexer to excite the soup and restore previously blocked comms... :-D
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