<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Surprisingly it is power that primarily limits repeater count in undersea spans.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ie, most available power is going to be eaten up budget wise by the repeaters, leaving none for routers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s not terribly clear that a router would substantially benefit things that a ROADM could not also accomplish, and those do exist in undersea systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As routers decrease in power and coalesce with silicon photonics, this may change.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">-LB<br class=""><br class="">Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE<br class="">6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br class="">CEO <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><br class="">"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ANNOUNCING: <a href="https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks" class="">6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="">FCC License KJ6FJJ<br class=""><br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></span></div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 17, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Michael Thomas <<a href="mailto:mike@mtcc.com" class="">mike@mtcc.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I was reading an article in the Economist about a new fiber route down the Red Sea from Israel and wondered if there were any branches off of those lines and where the routers were for them. The route kind of made it look like it was completely at sea, but it would kind of make sense to leave them at sea if you could put a router there.<br class=""><br class="">Mike<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>