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From http://dailywireless.org/
This is what one long distance carrier in the US has it its disposal. Holy crap is all I can say.
• Level 3 has 26,000 miles of fiber optic network nation wide reaching 80 cities.
• It will expand that capacity by another 9,000 miles of network and 29 metro cities in the Southeast with pending acquisition of St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Progress Telecom LLC.
• A typical Level 3 long-haul route consists of 90 fibers per line, with as many as 10 or 11 empty conduits running alongside that can house additional fiber cable.
• Each 90-strand cable can potentially carry between 16,200 Gigabits of data per second and 259,200 Gbps.
• 16,200 Gbps could carry between 818,181 simultaneous high-definition video streams, while 259,200 Gbps could carry 13 million HD streams, using MPEG-2 compression.
• In metro areas, Level 3 has networks with several hundred fibers per line.
Source: Level 3 Communications
This is what one long distance carrier in the US has it its disposal. Holy crap is all I can say.
• Level 3 has 26,000 miles of fiber optic network nation wide reaching 80 cities.
• It will expand that capacity by another 9,000 miles of network and 29 metro cities in the Southeast with pending acquisition of St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Progress Telecom LLC.
• A typical Level 3 long-haul route consists of 90 fibers per line, with as many as 10 or 11 empty conduits running alongside that can house additional fiber cable.
• Each 90-strand cable can potentially carry between 16,200 Gigabits of data per second and 259,200 Gbps.
• 16,200 Gbps could carry between 818,181 simultaneous high-definition video streams, while 259,200 Gbps could carry 13 million HD streams, using MPEG-2 compression.
• In metro areas, Level 3 has networks with several hundred fibers per line.
Source: Level 3 Communications