Alcatel-Lucent and France Tel deploy 400G for testing

Thu Feb 7 14:40:25 UTC 2013

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Vitkovsky" <adam.vitkovsky at 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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