On backhauling provisioning costs

32 fibre in 19 minuti. Uau!
parliamo di un cavo che ha un diametro di circa 10 millimetri.. (un quarto della sezione di un cavo telefonico da 100 coppie)

Infinera and DANTE Set Guinness World Record on GEANT Network - Yahoo! Finance.

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), a leading provider of Intelligent Transport Networks™, and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe), an operator of advanced networks for research and education, announced today that they have achieved a Guinness World Record for the fastest rate of multi-Terabit optical capacity across the GÉANT Network. The record underscores how an Intelligent Transport Network enables service providers to use the rapid provisioning time to increase revenues with reliable, differentiated services while reducing operating costs through scale, multi-layer convergence and automation.

Infinera and DANTE were able to install and activate eight Terabits per second (Tb/s) of long haul super-channel optical capacity, enough capacity to simultaneously stream 1.6 million high-definition movies in each direction. This capacity was activated across the GÉANT production network in 19 minutes and 1 second after plugging in the first line card.
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The DTN-X platform provides transmission capacity using 500 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) super-channel line cards which require only two fiber connectors each. Sixteen such cards and 32 fiber connections were deployed at each end of the link, and once the super-channels were in operation a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) service was provisioned over the link. The total time from the insertion of the first super-channel line card to the activation of the 100 GbE service was 19 minutes and 1 second resulting in a provisioning rate of 26.02Tb/s per hour.