Well, that's as much because CERN doesn't need additional throughput than anything else; technically it's a solved problem, which makes it one of the easier ones to do something about :)
We can quite easily send 40Gb/s over a single fibre (I feel like I've seen over a terabit done...), and the undersea cables (more inhospitable than the remote desert) are far, far higher bandwidth.
Consuming the data in a timely manner may be tricky, though!
We can quite easily send 40Gb/s over a single fibre (I feel like I've seen over a terabit done...), and the undersea cables (more inhospitable than the remote desert) are far, far higher bandwidth.
Consuming the data in a timely manner may be tricky, though!