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Ciena and Meta claim record subsea transmission speed
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The trial used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics over an unregenerated link In sum – what to know: Record distance – 800 Gb/s transmitted over 16,608 km without regeneration on a transpacific subsea link. Higher capacity – The trial achieved 18 Tb/s per fiber pair, indicating increased throughput potential. Efficiency gains – Results […]