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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/21 16:52, Fox, Barbara wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I asked a submarine guy how much the fibers
can carry because this sounded low to me. His response:</p>
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That was just an example to illustrate the commercial contracting,
not the technical capabilities.<br>
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Cables currently being laid in the sea are going in at anywhere
between 16 and 24 fibre pairs. The design capacity per fibre pair of
these systems is 20Tbps, with a possible 480Tbps of Shannon limit
capability.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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