[130483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nick hatch)
Mon Oct 4 13:38:08 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=9a-zO9dERVtFr4c7w2UWo0D6h7KkmqhCOeTDw@mail.gmail.com>
From: nick hatch <nicholas.hatch@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:37:35 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical
> regeneration without converting the signal to electrical and
> retransmitting back as optical.. How is that done?
>
> I'm not sure how it's done in practice, but check out doped fiber
amplifiers for one possibility.
One has to grok laser fundamentals to get what's going on, but it's not an
especially complex topic.
-Nick
