Alcatel-Lucent and BT unveil super fat pipe, splurt out 1.4Tb per second across London

It's not the size, it's how you use... the spectral efficiency

Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with BT to test an "alien superchannel" across an existing fibre pipe, with the resulting record-breaking 1.4 Tbps they achieved able to transmit a five-month-long grumble flick in just one second.…

via The Register - Networks

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