• DocumentCode
    1808683
  • Title

    Submarine cables: the ultimate in reliability?

  • Author

    Titchmarsh, J.G. ; Chown, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell-Northern Res. Europe Ltd., Harlow, UK
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    34361
  • Firstpage
    42522
  • Lastpage
    42524
  • Abstract
    Four important factors in achieving reliability in any system are identified; design, redundancy, screening and feedback. Application of these factors is illustrated by a few examples taken from submarine cable systems. Such systems consist of a chain of elements; cable carrying fibres and electrical power, associated joints, repeaters to boost or regenerate the signal periodically, and land terminals. A user is concerned with overall reliability, and examples are taken from the whole system
  • Keywords
    cable jointing; cable sheathing; optical cables; optical design techniques; redundancy; reliability; repeaters; submarine cables; design; feedback; joints; land terminals; redundancy; reliability; repeaters; screening; submarine cable systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability of Fibre Optic Cable Systems, IEE Colloquium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    284576