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#Mon Aug 09 12:03:52 CEST 2010
Slide__SLz0IKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_footer=Spread-out, prepared end of the Rhineland cable
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Slide__SLz0IKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_subTitle=Whereas the Rhineland cable had a trasmission capacity of about 250 simultaneous telephone calls, a single modern glas fibre, the core of which being only a few micrometres thick, copes with more than 10 million parallel telephone calls using far-infrared laser transmission. <p></p> <p>The material load of the total line of 600 kilometres length amounts to a quantity of pure quartz sand the volume of which corresponding to less than one metre of the Rhineland cable.</p>