Title :
Design Considerations for Long-Haul Lightwave Systems
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel,NJ, USA
fDate :
12/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The following design considerations for long-haul lightwave systems are reviewed: outage and error rate requirements, terminal architecture, regenerator span design and performance specification, capacity upgrade alternatives, and broad-gauge economic factors.
Keywords :
Optical fiber communication; Circuits; Coaxial cables; Costs; Delay; Error analysis; Jacobian matrices; Optical fiber cables; Repeaters; Space technology; Vents;
Journal_Title :
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
DOI :
10.1109/JSAC.1986.1146493
