TAT-8, the first transoceanic fibre cable, enters service

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The first fibre-optic cable across an ocean was completed, from Tuckerton in New Jersey to a branching unit off Europe and on to Widemouth Bay in England and Penmarc'h in France. It carried 280 Mbit/s on two working fibre pairs — about 40,000 telephone circuits, against 36 on TAT-1 thirty-two years earlier — with electronic regenerators, since the optical amplifier had been demonstrated only the previous year.

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IEEE Milestones: the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable (TAT-1), 1956, and the transatlantic fibre-optic submarine cable (TAT-8), 1988

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