1
Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Conventions
6 Characteristics and performance
of the system
6.1 Characteristics and performance of the digital line sections
6.2 Characteristics and performance of the optical sections
6.3 System reliability performance
7 Characteristics and performance
of the terminal equipment
7.1 General
7.2 Transmission performance
7.3 Actions consequent to an alarm
7.4 Automatic switching
8 Characteristics and performance
of the repeater
8.1 Characteristics of the signal at the optical interface
8.2 Jitter performance
9 Characteristics and performance
of the cable
Annex A – Implementation of regenerative 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 Repeater and branching
unit characteristics