-----Original Message-----
From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu]
Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 8:12 PM
To: Rod Beck
Cc: Matthew Moyle-Croft; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:36 BST, Rod Beck said:
> Well, the funny thing is that when I approached bandwidth buyers at some
> well known publicly traded carriers, they told me that 40 gig waves
> across the Atlantic were impossible.
Theoretically impossible, or just "impossible on the fiber that's already
underwater"? Big difference there.
Impossilbe on the existing undersea cables.
> Indeed, when we decided to launch LAN PHY 10 GigE, the builder of our cable
> system told us it wasn't possible.
Again, was this "impossible on a cable the builder was about to build", or
"impossible on the cable that the builder put under the water already"?
Impossible on our cable. The one they built.
