• DocumentCode
    2014757
  • Title

    Balancing cost and protection of submarine fiber optic cables

  • Author

    Al-Lawati, Ali

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    1-4 Feb. 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), 2015 IEEE 8th
  • Conference_Location
    Muscat
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEEEGCC.2015.7060043
  • Filename
    7060043