Title :
Submarine cables: the ultimate in reliability?
Author :
Titchmarsh, J.G. ; Chown, M.
Author_Institution :
Bell-Northern Res. Europe Ltd., Harlow, UK
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;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability of Fibre Optic Cable Systems, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
