120000 leagues under the sea [undersea optical cables].
In 1988, only 2% of the World's transoceanic flow of messages and data was carried by undersea cables. Satellites were the dominant carrier. Today, cables carry 80% of a much bigger, ever-growing total. The reason: bandwidth, or more accurately, channel capacity, which is a function not only of...
| Published in: | IEEE spectrum 37, 4 (2000). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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