Title :
Balancing cost and protection of submarine fiber optic cables
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman
Abstract :
This paper presents a model to calculate different costs associated with submarine fiber optic cable protection during design and installation phase and cost related to cable cuts and repairs. It offers a non-existing and much needed tool to help submarine cables operators to decide on the type of cable, protection, length and depth of burial and compare cost of cuts repair and data rerouting during cuts with cost of cable protection schemes.
Keywords :
optical cables; submarine cables; data rerouting; submarine fiber optic cable cuts repairing cost balancing; submarine fiber optic cable protection; Maintenance engineering; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Underwater cables; Underwater vehicles; Submarine cables; cable cuts repair; fiber optic communications;
Conference_Titel :
GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), 2015 IEEE 8th
Conference_Location :
Muscat
DOI :
10.1109/IEEEGCC.2015.7060043
