[116714] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Fri Aug 14 15:00:14 2009
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:36 +0100
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: "Matthew Moyle-Croft" <mmc@internode.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft [mailto:mmc@internode.com.au]
Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 12:09 AM
To: Rod Beck
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
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Congrats Rod.
Southern Cross and Nortel have been trialing 40Gbps waves on the 8000km=20
segment from Hawaii to New Zealand.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/152866,southern-cross-trials-40gbps-nortel-=
kit.aspx
The 8000km segment is a LONG way - a very long way but it should mean=20
stability for any cable system (I'm not sure there are segments that are =
much longer on any other system) - the bandwidth limit hasn't been hit =
yet!
MMC
Rod Beck wrote:
> =
http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/Hibernia40GAcrossAtlanticPR-JSA=
2-FINAL.pdf
>
> Roderick S. Beck=20
> Director of European Sales=20
> Hibernia Atlantic=20
> Budapest, New York, and Paris=20
>
> =20
Well, the funny thing is that when I approached bandwidth buyers at some =
well known publicly traded carriers, they told me that 40 gig waves =
across the Atlantic were impossible. Quite common response. Indeed, when =
we decided to launch LAN PHY 10 GigE, the builder of our cable system =
told us it wasn't possible.=20
