Manufacture of Rigid Repeaters and Ocean-Block Equalizers

Early in 1959 a decision was made to s t a r t production of a new rigid repeater for SD submarine cable telephone systems. 1 Since repeater manufacturing know-how was available at the Kearny, New Jersey, plant of the Western Electric Co. from earlier production of flexible repeaters for SB cable systems, 2 the manufacture of the SD repeater was also allocated to Kearny. T h e same general philosophy of building integrity into the product to the limit of practicability was again to apply. The same manufacturing requirements on environment, personnel, wage payment, training program, and inspection on a 100 per cent basis were also to be used. In the following information reference will occasionally be made to flexible repeater m a n u f a c t u r e at Hillside, New Jersey, with the assumption t h a t interested readers have previously read or now have access to the information published in 1957.2 1275 1276 T H E BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL J O U R N A L , J U L Y 1 ! ) ( > 4 I I . P L A N N E D CAPACITY AND DELIVERY S C H E D U L E S