> Undersea fiber cables have repeaters embedded in them. So even though it's only one hop from an L2 perspective, the light is being decoded, error corrected, and re-transmitted many times along the way to hong kong from SF.
No, this is incorrect. Subsea fiber cables use all optical amplification at each repeater.
There is no optical-electrical-optical conversion.
No, this is incorrect. Subsea fiber cables use all optical amplification at each repeater.
There is no optical-electrical-optical conversion.