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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