On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:39:57 EST, Dude VanWinkle said: > On Jan 31, 2008 3:51 PM, gmaggro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One planned for Egypt-France is 8 pair, each pair doing 128 lambdas > > > at 10Gbit per lambda. Do the math. > > > > That's a lot of retards > > And they dont have to upgrade the fiber in order to upgrade the > bandwidth. They use the same fiber and just swap out the lasers on > either side
Within limits - the replacement laser has to be something that works with the regen units located every 30 to 50 miles or so along the cable (incidentally, getting power to a regen unit that's 1,500 miles down the cable and under 4 miles of water is non-trivial - the usual solution for that is to pump a high-voltage feed down a copper conductor in the cable. Only one conductor is needed, because salt water makes a *very* good ground. ;) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
