Pointless question...

[Brent Hilpert]

Scanning wrote:
> 
> A reasonable bit rate these days is 100 Gbit / sec with the high dollar lab
> stuff pushing into the Terabit range....
> 
> Chuck, using ECL Gbit stuff is do-able and would shorten the length of the
> fibre...?    A 1 Meg static RAM just sounds too easy.


OK, going with the numbers provided earlier,
if the single-delay length required is
  2*10^8m/S * 1Mb / 10Mb/S = 2*10^7m = 20,000km
and we can get
  100Gb/S / 10Mb/S = 10,000 (10Mb/S channels)
out of the fibre, then we can reduce the fibre length required to
  20,000km / 10,000 = 2 km

Just put the spool of fibre out in the garden...