1
Scope
2 References
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Terms defined in other Recommendations
4 Abbreviations
5 Characteristics and performance of the system
5.1 Characteristics and performance of the digital line sections
5.2 Characteristics and performance of the optical sections
5.3 System reliability performance
5.4 System capacity upgradeability
6 Characteristics and performance of the terminal equipment
6.1 General
6.2 Transmission performance
6.3 Actions consequent to an alarm
6.4 Automatic switching
7 Characteristics and performance of the submarine cable
7.1 Scope
7.2 Transmission characteristics
7.3 Mechanical characteristics and resistance to the environment
7.4 Characteristics of fibres in a submarine cable
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 remotely pumped optical amplifiers: Optical power budget between
optical reference points S and R and line monitoring
B.1 Remotely pumped optical amplifiers
B.2 Optical
power budget for systems using remotely pumped optical amplifiers
B.3 Line monitoring for pumping portion