[130520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Oct 5 06:02:22 2010
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:01:14 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com>
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On 04/10/2010 18:24, Heath Jones 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?
Wikipedia has a useful article on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDFA
Nick
