{"id":132140,"date":"2015-07-14T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=132140"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:58:26","slug":"alcatel-lucent-sets-undersea-data-transmission-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/132140-alcatel-lucent-sets-undersea-data-transmission-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Alcatel-Lucent sets undersea data transmission record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatel-Lucent has set a\u00a0distance record for undersea data transmission, breaking the\u00a010,000km mark using 300G technology.<\/p>\n<p>This is thanks\u00a0to &#8220;an affordable high-tech innovation from the Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks&#8221;, which uses\u00a0real-time processing prototypes of 300 gigabits-per-second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new modulation technology will help optimise the performance of submarine cable systems whose introduction in Africa has seen the costs of Internet services slashed by almost half,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was\u00a0achieved on the 10,000km of ASN&#8217;s test bed, combining the 300G 8QAM (8 quadrature amplitude modulation) technology of ASN&#8217;s 1620 Softnode\u00a0platform and second-generation coherent submarine fibre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;8QAM technology can optimise both existing and new undersea cable systems, enabling operators to deliver more than 15 terabits-per-second per fibre pair on transoceanic systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on broadband<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/132094-sa-government-must-get-out-of-broadband-gsma.html\">SA government must get out of broadband: GSMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/130254-are-south-africas-adsl-and-fibre-prices-really-that-high.html\">Are South Africa\u2019s ADSL and fibre prices really that high?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatel-Lucent has set a distance record for undersea data transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28470],"tags":[36,2248,5968],"class_list":["post-132140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-active","tag-alcatel-lucent","tag-undersea-cables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132142,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132140\/revisions\/132142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}