RE: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Fox, Barbara via NANOG
I asked a submarine guy how much the fibers can carry because this sounded low to me. His response: it depends on the type of cable. Older cables (with embedded dispersion compensation) have a lot less capacity and I have seen some as low as 1Tb/s per fiber pair and some as high as 10Tb/s per

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 19:54, Mike Hammett wrote: I believe strand counts were small because the power needed for that many amplifiers was too much to bear for budgets. Also because the amount of capacity we are talking about nowadays, driven by the content folk, is something telco's could only (and st

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 18:11, Rod Beck wrote: What is interesting is this new deep sea design. In the old days cables had 4 to 8 pairs max. Now I am seeing Orange talking about 18 pairs and 24 pairs. With more widely regeneration. Because of the way current submarine cables are being built (mainly by

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 16:52, Fox, Barbara wrote: I asked a submarine guy how much the fibers can carry because this sounded low to me.  His response: That was just an example to illustrate the commercial contracting, not the technical capabilities. Cables currently being laid in the sea are going

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mike Hammett
dnesday, January 27, 2021 10:11:29 AM Subject: Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair What is interesting is this new deep sea design. In the old days cables had 4 to 8 pairs max. Now I am seeing Orange talking about 18 pairs and 24 pairs. With more widely regeneration. https://www.orange.com/en

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Rod Beck
so announces the signature of a partnership on the AMITIÉ cable ... www.orange.com Regards, Rdoerick. From: Fox, Barbara Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:52 PM To: Mark Tinka ; Rod Beck ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair I asked