[9758] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Sat May 31 21:53:25 1997
From: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>
To: "'Chris Whittenburg'" <chris.whittenburg@wcom.com>,
"'Jesse Caulfield'"
<jesse@netthink.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 09:35:38 +0800
Hello Chris,
> Worldcom and Cable & Wireless are in the process of laying a 20 Gbps
> transatlantic sonet (DWDM) system which they claim doubles the current
> transatlantic capacity. The southern route should be done by November
> of this year with the first capacity available for the end of the year.
> The northern route, which will close the ring, will be done in '98.
Only 20 Gbps? KDD is putting a 100 Gbps around Japan. Due in 1998. ;-).
Barry
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