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SubTel Forum Issue #148 - Global Capacity

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EARLY TELEGRAPH CABLES AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION by Philip Pilgrim Back in the 1990’s, while working Teleglobe’s CANTAT3 cable system, we were involved in the world’s-first fibre optic transoceanic digital video transmission. The video feed was a gall bladder operation. It was transmitted using ATM hardware technology. At that time, the internet, in its infancy, used a flavour of HTML that lacked the synchronization hooks needed for video. Having these, ATM was the better solution. I t

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