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Re: Alcatel-Lucent and France Tel deploy 400G for testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Feb 7 09:40:51 2013
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:40:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Vitkovsky" <adam.vitkovsky@swan.sk>
> Can't find any statement whether the nifty proclaimed 400G wavelength
> is indeed a single 100GHz channel or just a bundled supper channel
> The only hint is the total capacity of a fiber of 17.6 Tbps with 44
> wavelengths which is roughly the whole 100GHz spaced grid
Well, if you click through to his earlier piece, at
http://newswire.telecomramblings.com/2013/02/france-telecom-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-deploy-worlds-first-live-400-gbps-per-wavelength-optical-link/
he does explicitly say "400Gb/s per wavelength"...
Cheers,
-- jra
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