{"ID":2873726,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05959","arxiv_id":"2509.05959","title":"The Case for a DNANF 1Pb/s Trans-Atlantic Submarine Cable","abstract":"The recent progress in low-loss hollow-core fibers allows to speculate on the possibility of building a transatlantic submarine cable that can achieve the goal of 1 Pb/s per direction, leveraging bidirectional transmission, and at the same time drastically increase span length, theoretically to 200km. In this version, we add the analysis of the impact of Rayleigh backscattering.","short_abstract":"The recent progress in low-loss hollow-core fibers allows to speculate on the possibility of building a transatlantic submarine cable that can achieve the goal of 1 Pb/s per direction, leveraging bidirectional transmission, and at the same time drastically increase span length, theoretically to 200km. In this version,...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05959","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05959v3","authors":"[\"Pierluigi Poggiolini\",\"Francesco Poletti\"]","published":"2025-09-07T07:54:00Z","proceeding":"eess.SP","tasks":"[\"eess.SP\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}