[116716] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Fri Aug 14 15:15:31 2009
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:13:25 +0100
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 8:12 PM
To: Rod Beck
Cc: Matthew Moyle-Croft; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
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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.
Impossilbe on the existing undersea cables.=20
> Indeed, when we decided to launch LAN PHY 10 GigE, the builder of our =
cable
> system told us it wasn't possible.=20
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"?
Impossible on our cable. The one they built.=20
