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By: Jerry Fleckheimer

Jerry Fleckheimer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:52:29 +0000

Well, its the “magic stuff” being identfied in the orange section of the graph. What the article is referring too is the physical capacity of the undersea cables leveraging today’s technology. They are calling out for more cables or higher capacity cables to be laid.

By: Mark Strangio

Mark Strangio — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:57 +0000

If Alan Mauldin is correct, then will bandwidth prices continue to decline across the Atlantic? Or will they stabilize in the face of increasing demand, caused by what seems to be explosive growth in Internet video? Assuming increasing stability in worldwide economies, should we anticipate lower bandwidth prices as demand for bandwidth increases? While we (www.peerapp.com) have seen gradual decreases in bandwidth prices, the rate of downward change appears to be slowing. Hence, more service providers are beginning to appreciate the value in caching video content at the edge of their networks.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:23:50 +0000

Yeah, how much room is there to squeeze more bandwidth out of current fiber. I read for years about how technology to put more signal on the same fiber was making the telecom crash worse, on top of all the excess fiber that was laid. But I don’t know how this affects transoceanic routes.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:33:28 +0000

Actually the current trans-Atlantic 10G rates are 40-50% below those in the story… I would put money in the companies that build the cables and not the operators…

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:50:08 +0000

I think there is missing information here:

For a fact we know that some of the existing conduit bundles are being raised and upgraded with new repeaters for upgraded optical “magic stuff”, the carrier line cards are evolving, and the monomode fiber that is in place has lots of room to grow.

I think this is a synthetic story. There is a technical, network upgrade challenge here, not a crisis in the making.

By: courtney benson

courtney benson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:26:59 +0000

Does this mean we should be investing in Global Crossing or that Goldman Sachs should not have sold them?