Re: connectivity outside the US

$500M for building a 20G system trans-Atlantic ready foir service Dec 97 with the next system scheduled for commissioning 12 months down the track risky?

AFAIK Gemini is a 48 pair fibre ring. Initially it will be run without Wave Division Multiplexing, so using the most boring of boring kit that's 48 x 2.4Gb = 115Gb. However it's not too hard these days to get 4.8 Gb down a fibre without WDM, and WDM could give up to a 16x increase (cable is built for WDM just no point deploying it initially). This would give 7360Gb. Alledgedly technolody that supports this is "in the labs". Alex Bligh Xara Networks