Re: Lucent Pumps Up Fiber Capacity

From: Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 27 1998 - 18:12:11 MST


Neat stuff. 400 Gigabits/sec/fiber. they use the existing fiber bundles
which each have 8 fibers. A rough calculation shows that a total
of ten bundles would carry a phone call for every person in the U.S.
simultaneously.

Brian Atkins wrote:

> Got the whole net on a strand
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9899.html
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