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It can range very widely. They can go from 5 mega bits per second to 50 giga bits per second. (with different types of cabling.) In Sept 2009, in their lab, Alcatel-Lucent achieved a speed of 2 Peta bits per second over 7,000KM. That's over 100 million Giga bits per second.

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