>Yeah the phone companies laid those thick 144-strand bundles before wave division multiplexing. They figured the only way to get more bandwidth was more fibers

>Yeah the phone companies laid those thick 144-strand bundles before wave division multiplexing. They figured the only way to get more bandwidth was more fibers, right? I don't know anything about fiber tech but can't they just apply the newer techniques to the already laid out 144 strand bundles?