Guy is some kind of tool.
There is a glut of fiber sitting in the ground.
Rights of way already exist to pull more.
We currently transmit around 50% of capacity currently lit up.
Thr theoretical limit doesnt exist on fiber with LAMDA’s, DWDM, CWDM, etc.
All that is needed to increase capacity is changing headend equipment to support advances in utilizing existing infrastructure.
For instance, the first fiber strand installed could only transmit 1Gig. That same strand can Currently transmit 100 petabit, theoretical and will likely exceed that number over the next few years, realistic.
Further, research could lead to improvement of multimode like fiber, reducing the amount of equipment needed every 2500-3000 feet, increasing its ability to transmit to almost 2/3rds of single mode capacity/ability.
There’s a bunch more stuff but, fiber is amazing and the only current tech could replace it or augment is laser but, unlike fiber it needs direct line of sight to transmit and that is limited to, under ideal conditions, the curvature of the earth. So, the maximum possible for laser would be limited by Pythagorean theorem taking into account distance, height of transmission platform, etc.
Still, it is subject to things like wave attenuation from environmental conditions of heat, particulates, weather, etc.
Not to mention interruption of transmission from even a bird, flock of birds, airplanes, etc.
Indeed so. Anything for a ‘crisis headline’...