How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

Sun Nov 3 23:35:08 UTC 2013

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness:
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>> http://www.bricscable.com/
>
> " 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s"
>
> so.... you can get 80 waves on a single pair, 80 100g waves? that's 8tbps
> where's the missing 6 in the above? Did the other pair only get 40g
> waves? that seems short sighted :(

The remaining bandwidth is obviously for network management polling.  lol :-)

-Jim P.