Revisiting Link Loses: Cable cuts, Link Reliability and Emerging Markets

摘要

With the growing requirements of high data intensive bandwidth supplies of 100-200 Gb/s transmission systems in many emerging markets such as India, one of the principal requirements is predictable optical link loss and received Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (R-OSNR) over a period of time. In this paper, we present results of a study to understand impact of the influential factors like macro-bend loss, splice loss, installed fiber attenuation and unscheduled fiber/cable cut rate to sustain optical link loss within designed loss budget of regenerated (point to point) fiber optic links.