Regenerator chip set for high-speed digital transmission

50 years of communication circuits at ISSCC

“…Initial deployment of land-based fiber systems was contemporaneous with the appearance of early cellular systems. A 1984 ISSCC paper (D. Ross, R. Paski, D. Ehrenberg, W. Eckton, S. Moyer, "A Regenerator Chip Set for High Speed Digital Transmission" [19]) describes a complete 300 Mb/s repeater system for the first transatlantic fiber cable, TAT-8, deployed in 1988 with a capacity of 40,000 voice channels.…”