Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

On 04/10/2010 18:24, Heath Jones wrote:
> I'm not clever enough to know of some way that you could do optical
> regeneration without converting the signal to electrical and
> retransmitting back as optical.. How is that done?

Wikipedia has a useful article on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDFA

Nick