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Re: Past one terabit/second on fiber
On Tue, 14 May 1996, jim bell wrote:
> But with
> fiber transmission probably less than 1/100th the cost of older coaxial
> transmission systems, per connection, it is unclear why they're even
> continuing to meter LD phone calls.
especially when 1Tb fiber is in practice - our phone calls will take only
nanoseconds! :)
anything included in that as to why they used a dfb laser for channel 16?
or is it something obvious i'm missing?
i notice they're still using the encyclopedia/second benchmark..
bri..
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