Fighting the capacity crunch, Orange and Alcatel-Lucent set 400 Gbps fiber link live

Reblogged from GigaOM:

People have been messing around with this in the labs but now it's real and in the field: Alcatel-Lucent(s alu) and France Telecom-Orange have deployed a long-distance terrestrial 400 Gbps optical fiber link that, as it uses 44 such wavelengths, can carry a whopping 17.6 terabits per second (Tbps) of traffic in aggregate.

Why is this important? Because telecoms operators' networks are always facing a…

Read more… 181 more words

That's rather amazing when can I get one to my house?