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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/21 12:30, Rod Beck wrote:<br>
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Here is the intellectual foundation or underpinnings of the new
deep sea design which are enabling fiber pair counts as high as
24.
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I think the engineers might enjoy this. <br>
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<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8369356"
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This is from 2018 - the submarine cable industry has come a long way
since then :-).<br>
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Channel spacing on marine systems has always been the game. Adding
intelligence into branching units (BU's), as well as improvements in
amplifier design has been a contributory factor as well.<br>
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What is interesting, now, is that in lieu of copper, aluminium is
being preferred as a conductor, to lower build costs.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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