Broadband fibre optic cable restoration by satellite, implementations and limitations

It has been shown that statistically there is a requirement to provide some means of carrying some of the traffic carried by a broadband fibre optic submarine cable on the infrequent occasions that total or partial failure occurs and that the duration could be up to three or four days and for as many as fifty times during the twenty five year lifetime of the cable. Such restoration can be provided by the use of suitable satellite capacity and this paper addresses some of the issues involved