The Pan American Cable System

Author

Trischitta, Patrick R. ; Medina, Antonio José Garcia ; Remedi, Roberto Cofré

Volume

35

Issue

12

fYear

1997

fDate

12/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

140

Abstract

The Pan American Cable System, when completed in September 1998, will provide high capacity international telecommunication services between South America and the rest of the world. Pan American will be a cost effective 7300 km trunk and branch undersea cable system with landings in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, and the United States. It will be configured into four logical rings that will automatically protect traffic in the rest of the network should a fault occur in any branch. Initially planned to operate at 2.5 Gb/s on a single wavelength, the rings can be stacked using wavelength division multiplexing to increase capacity as demand for international services to the region grows. A highly sophisticated network management system will operate, administer, and maintain the entire network from a centralized, secure location

Keywords

maintenance engineering; optical cables; optical fibre networks; submarine cables; telecommunication network management; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; Aruba; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Pan American Cable System; Panama; Peru; South America; USA; United States; Venezuela; automatic traffic protection; branch; fibre optic cable; high capacity services; international telecommunication services; logical rings; network administration; network maintenance; network management system; network operation; trunk; undersea cable system; wavelength division multiplexing; Communication cables; Costs; Joining processes; Optical fiber cables; Protection; Repeaters; South America; Telecommunication traffic; Underwater vehicles; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.642842

Filename

642842