1
Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined
elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this
Recommendation
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Characteristics and
performances of the system
5.1 Characteristics and
performance of the digital line sections (DLS)
5.2 Optical power budget
5.3 System reliability
performance
5.4 System capacity upgradeability
6 Characteristics and performance
of the TTE
6.1 General
6.2 Transmission
performance
6.3 Actions consequent to
an alarm
6.4 Automatic switching
7 Characteristics and performance
of the optical submarine repeaters (OSR)
7.1 Mechanical
characteristics
7.2 Electrical
characteristics
7.3 Optical
characteristics
7.4 Supervisory facilities
7.5 Fault location
7.6 Reliability
8 Characteristics and performance
of the in-line branching unit (BU)
8.1 General
8.2 Mechanical
characteristics
8.3 Electrical
characteristics
8.4 Optical
characteristics
8.5 Supervisory facilities
8.6 Fault location
8.7 Reliability
9
Characteristics
and performance of the optical submarine equalizer (OSE)
9.1
Mechanical
characteristics
9.2
Electrical
characteristics (for adjustable OSEs only)
9.3
Optical
characteristics
9.4
Supervisory
facilities
9.5
Reliability
10 Characteristics and performance
of the submarine cable
10.1 Dispersion mapping
10.2 Dispersion management
implementation
Annex A – Implementation of repeatered optical fibre submarine
cable systems using optical fibre amplifiers
A.1 Introduction
A.2 System configuration
A.3 System performance
A.4 System operation
A.5 Optical submarine
repeater (OSR), branching unit (BU) and optical submarine equalizer (OSE)
characteristics
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