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This is impressive! Our usual spans go to maybe 120 km at most if I use our strongest EDFAs. With those we can deal with around 30 dB of span loss, and most fibers we can rent have around 0.25 dB/km loss. Of course this is on classical single core fiber, we don't use HCF yet.
I remember YOFC was also at last year's ECOC, where they presented their support tube hollow core fiber concept, reaching 0.05 dB/km at some wavelengths. Here's some slides I photographed.
I watched those pictures load one row of pixels at a time for 2 minutes.
Imagine how quickly they would load on this newfangled fiber.
1 minute and 59 seconds I reckon