The FLAG cable system

Author

Welsh, Thomas ; Smith, Roger ; Azami, Haruo ; Chrisner, Raymond

Author_Institution

NYNEX Corp., White Plains, NY, USA

Volume

34

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

35

Abstract

The Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) cable system is a 10 Gb/s synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) based undersea fiber optic network. When fully operational, FLAG will connect 12 countries with over 120000 voice channels via 27000 km of mostly undersea cable. FLAG will incorporate a new generation of undersea fiber optic system that uses erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and will be jointly supplied by AT&T Submarine Systems Incorporated (SSI) and KDD-Submarine Cable Systems (SCS) Inc. When completed, FLAG will meet or exceed all relevant international performance standards, have greater reliability and availability than previous systems in the region, and conform to all ISO 9000 quality standards with respect to design, development, production, installation, and service

Keywords

fibre lasers; optical cables; optical fibre networks; submarine cables; synchronous digital hierarchy; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication standards; 10 Gbit/s; AT&T Submarine Systems Incorporated; FLAG cable system; Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe; ISO 9000 quality standards; KDD-Submarine Cable Systems; availability; design; development; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; installation; international performance standards; production; reliability; service; synchronous digital hierarchy; undersea cable; undersea fiber optic network; undersea fiber optic system; voice channels; Availability; Communication cables; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; ISO standards; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Standards development; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.481241

Filename

481241