[9776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Sun Jun 1 13:53:14 1997
To: Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>
cc: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Jun 1997 17:57:38 +1000."
<3.0.1.32.19970601175738.006d17b4@nico.aarnet.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 18:47:32 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> $500M for building a 20G system trans-Atlantic ready foir service Dec 97
> with the next system scheduled for commissioning 12 months down the track
> risky?
AFAIK Gemini is a 48 pair fibre ring. Initially it will be run without
Wave Division Multiplexing, so using the most boring of boring kit that's
48 x 2.4Gb = 115Gb. However it's not too hard these days to get 4.8
Gb down a fibre without WDM, and WDM could give up to a 16x increase
(cable is built for WDM just no point deploying it initially). This
would give 7360Gb. Alledgedly technolody that supports this is "in the labs".
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
