[116715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 14 15:13:09 2009
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:36 BST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:12:53 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:36 BST, Rod Beck said:
> 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.
Theoretically impossible, or just "impossible on the fiber that's already
underwater"? Big difference there.
> Indeed, when we decided to launch LAN PHY 10 GigE, the builder of our cable
> system told us it wasn't possible.
Again, was this "impossible on a cable the builder was about to build", or
"impossible on the cable that the builder put under the water already"?
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