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by btoptical
4327 days ago
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See for example:
http://newswire.telecomramblings.com/2013/01/telstra-global-... So you have to separate the "wet" plant from the terminal gear. The speed of the terminal gear is completely disconnected from the wet plant these days. Nobody replaces wet plant to upgrade capacity. They run Ciena, Infinera, Alcatel gear over Tyco's old line system. Essentially the issue with upgrading over the wet plant is basically the presence of nonlinearities on the fiber. The links are not noise limited. Some of these fibers are still running 10G OOK in half the band and that on NZ-DSF that's used for submarine cables basically causes huge nonlinear penalties. The new subsea fiber is 22ps/nm-km and essentially larger effective diameter for reducing nonlinear penalty. http://www.corning.com/opticalfiber/products/vascade_fibers.... BTW, I also worked at BBN |
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Thanks for the link. I confess I'm a little amazed that Infinera is the basis for running 100G coherent single wavelengths. That's great progress. (Edit- See below)
> Essentially the issue with upgrading over the wet plant is basically the presence of nonlinearities on the fiber
Yes, and there's great incentive to utilize legacy fiber if possible.
(BTW I managed to screw up my comment above when I edited. I had written: Usually the undersea guys are a generation behind, partly because of the need to send a destroyer-looking ship out for any repairs.)
> BTW, I also worked at BBN
Hello! and hope all is well, whoever you are. :)
Edit: The infinera 500G PIC in the PR from Telstra is running its basic bitstreams at 25G and muxing them up - http://www.lightreading.com/optical/dwdm/infinera-unleashes-...