[clug] October 2018 CLUG Meeting

[Steven Hanley]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:00:01AM +1100, Steve Walsh via linux wrote:
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> Time:          19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
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> Title:         High Capacity Optical Networking - Tim Rayner, AARNet.
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>                When ISPs and network providers link their interstate and 
>                international routers together, a lot of this heavy lifting 
> 	       is done with specialised optical networking equipment.
>                Join Tim as he explains how you make 100Gbps, 200Gbps or 
>                even 400Gbps speeds happen, and the mind-bending maths required
>                to make it happen. He'll also touch on how modern undersea cable
>                providers are making the most of their sunken assets, and explain
>                how Alien Wavelengths are not just something in Roswell, New Mexico

Thanks for the talk Tim, fantastic stuff, really enjoyed learning some of
this and great interesting diversions into aspects of the AARNet network and
new links and such.

More CLUG sessions this good will always be appreciated.

The article I mentioned form 1996 by the autho NEal Stephenson is at
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Also someone mentioned an article from one of the companies who did the link
to Singapore or somethign with ood photosif there is a link that would be
cool.

Love to see the FlexBox too, we need one
https://www.flexoptix.net/en/flexbox-series-configure-universal-transceivers.html?395=1357&co9424=

Steve

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