[LINK] terrabit per second internet

[Richard Chirgwin]

David Boxall wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 at 13:21:05 +1000 Jan Whitaker wrote:
>   
>> If you haven't seen last week's Catalyst, see if you can find it. 
>> Amazing stuff using photon chips.
>>     
> <http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2675781.htm>
>
> What impressed me was to hear Aussies pronouncing router as 'rowter'. 
> When I was studying (just this side of the Jurassic) it was 'rooter'.
>
>   
Back in the Jurassic indeed ... in the early 90s there were still 
"rooters" in Australia, which would confuse visiting American vendor 
reps. When 3Com launched into the rooter/rowter space, its country 
manager here (Nick Jackson, wonder what happened to him?) decided to 
play with the pronunciation with a series of ads:
We Came. We Saw. We Routed.

The American's loved it, right up until the time they caught up with his 
sense of humour and pulled the ads ...

RC