1
Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
4
Abbreviations
and acronyms
5
Conventions
6
Characteristics
and performance of the system
6.1
Characteristics
and performance of the digital line sections (DLS)
6.2
Characteristics
and performance of the optical sections
6.3
System
reliability performance
6.4
System
capacity upgradeability
7
Characteristics
and performance of the TTE
7.1
General
7.2
Transmission
performance
7.3
Actions
consequent to an alarm
7.4
Automatic
switching
8
Characteristics
and performance of the submarine cable
8.1
Dispersion
mapping
Annex A –
Implementation of repeaterless optical fibre submarine cable systems
A.1
Introduction
A.2
System
configuration
A.3
Characteristics of the line signal
A.4
System
operation
A.5
Passive
branching unit characteristics
Annex B –
Repeaterless optical fibre submarine cable systems using ROPA: Optical power
budget betweenoptical reference points S and R and line
monitoring
B.1
Remote
optically pumped amplifiers (ROPA)
B.2
Optical
power budget for systems using ROPA
B.3
Line
monitoring for pumping portion
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