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RFC 3251: What about Photonicity over IP? Why not use photons instead...

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Comment by squid@zensearch.com
Submitted on 5/16/2006
Related RFC: RFC 3251
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What about Photonicity over IP? Why not use photons instead of electrons to transfer energy?Let's define the QEoIP protocol (Quantized Energy over IP!)Each energy packet would contain the same number of photons and each photons would have the same energy (being produced by a high power laser, thus having the same frequency and knowing E=hf where h is Planck's constant.) This means each packet would carry the same amount of energy, thus defining an energy quantum.All activated terminal devices should receive energy packets at the minimal rate of 50 per second (thus imposing a minimum power download depending on the energy amount of the packets, or quanta of energy) to allow the terminal device's power supply DAC (e.g. smoothing with capacitors and regulators) to render smooth power. Of course non-activated terminal devices would receive no packets. Every 0.1 s every terminal device would have to send a new request for an energy level (0 [power off] to 224 = 16 megawatts), otherwise it will be starved of energy within 0.1s.If we want the minimal power download to be 1 Watt (1 Joules per second) and the minimum packet rate to be 50 per second then each packet (quanta) must contain 20 millijoules of energy. We could have a 224 = 16 Megawatts laser sending a stream of 1.25 ns (1.25 nanosecond) pulses (thus making 20 millijoules quanta) of energy per packet thru fiber optics. Of course the backbone fiber carrying packets at the highest rate would have the biggest diameter (or largest bundle of fibers) to reduce the photon density, thus preventing the meltdown of the fiber. Each packet being of 1.25 ns duration would be of uniform intensity but with a supermimposed modulation frequency high enough to carry an IPv6 (8 x 16 = 128 bits) destination address and a 2**24 energy level. We would need high power capable Ipv6 photonic routers. These routers would ensure that every terminal device receive the exact power level requested within 0.1s with no more than 20 ms between any 2 packets. These routers would have to keep tables of the power rates and energy packets received by each device or downstream router, this table being updated every 0.1s.Of course we would need some fibers for upstream data transmission from the terminal devices to the routers and between routers for energy packet dispatch.In light of this, what is your optic?

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