[130488] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Mon Oct 4 14:20:46 2010
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:19:58 +0100
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: "Heath Jones" <hj1980@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> By the way, my recollection is the undersea regenerators do purely opt=
ical regeneration.
> There is no O-E conversions undersea, only at the landing stations and=
terrestrial components.
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?
Erbium doped fibers.=20
