Hank Nussbacher <HANK@barilvm.bitnet> (05/31/90)
Bell Colorado has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Telecommunications in the USSR to build a $500 million dollar trans Siberian fiber optic line. The line will be 13,000km long and will support 565Mb between Japan and the USSR. The line is expected to become operational in 1994. A special company has been set up called Soviet Line Development Company. The problem is that most of the equipment is Cocom proscribed which Bell Colorado is trying to work around. Denmark, Britian, Italy, West Germany, Japan, Australia and the USA have all backed this project. There are expected to be three "branches" off of the Trans-Siberian cable: 1) To Copenhagen via the Baltic Sea 2) To Czechoslovakia and central Europe 3) To Italy via the Black Sea The 565Mb is the first stage with stage two increasing the capacity to 2.5Gb and stage 3 to 10Gb. ITU documents indicate that this will be the longest fiber optic cable in the world. Most of the cable will be laid along the Trans-Siberian rail. West Germany has also informed the ITU that it too is building a fiber link to Moscow - Frankfort-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow. There is a possibility that it will connest to TSL with a spur off to Prague. The German cable will cost $60 million and is called Centrale Strecke. All this is to be a great leap forward for Russia. Today, the only fiber link they have is between Leningrad and Minsk running in single-mode at 140Mb (most telecommunications fiber today is multimode and is 1.7Gb). That link is only 100km long. Hank Nussbacher Israel
jh@funet.fi (Juha Heinanen) (06/01/90)
Hank Nussbacher writes: >All this is to be a great leap forward for Russia. Today, the only >fiber link they have is between Leningrad and Minsk running in >single-mode at 140Mb (most telecommunications fiber today is multimode >and is 1.7Gb). That link is only 100km long. Most telecom fiber today is single mode because it can support much longer distances than multi mode fiber. Multi mode fiber is usually used at customer premises only. Juha
tad@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Tad Cook) (06/04/90)
In article <8470@accuvax.nwu.edu>, HANK@barilvm.bitnet (Hank Nussbacher) writes: > Bell Colorado has signed an agreement with the Ministry of > Telecommunications in the USSR to build a $500 million dollar trans > Siberian fiber optic line. The line will be 13,000km long and will WHAT is Bell Colorado??? I have heard of the old Mountain Bell (now US West) but never Bell Colorado. Is it a non-US firm? Tad Cook Seattle, WA Packet: KT7H @ N7HFZ.WA.USA.NA Phone: 206/527-4089 MCI Mail: 3288544 Telex: 6503288544 MCI UW USENET:...uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!ssc!tad or, tad@ssc.UUCP
oberman@rogue.llnl.gov (06/15/90)
In article <8618@accuvax.nwu.edu>, ssc!tad@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Tad Cook) writes: > WHAT is Bell Colorado??? I have heard of the old Mountain Bell (now > US West) but never Bell Colorado. Is it a non-US firm? There is no Bell Colorado. the agreement was with US West. I have heard some reports that it may be killed because the Dept. of Commerce may block the technology export. Then the Soviets WILL buy from a non-US firm. R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.