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System vendors continue to trumpet their achievements in long-haul optical transmission speeds and overall data carried over fibre.
Alcatel-Lucent announced earlier this month that France Telecom-Orange is using the industry's first 400 Gigabit link, connecting Paris and Lyon, while Infinera has detailed a trial demonstrating 8 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) of capacity over 1,175km and using 500 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channels.

"Integration always comes at the cost of crosstalk"
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs