System Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link

Under the terms of the Agreement, 1 it was the responsibility of the British Post Office to design and engineer the section of the transatlantic cable system between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. In common with other parts of the system, all specifications were to be agreed between the Post Office and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, but as both the British and the American types of submerged repeater had been carefully studied and generally approved by the other p a r t y prior to the agreement, the basic p a t t e r n of the system was clear from the beginning. T h e service and transmission objectives for the overall connections London-New York and London-Montreal were agreed 2 in early joint technical discussions in New York and Montreal and the agreed total impairments were divided appropriately between the various sections. In this way, the transmission objectives for the NewfoundlandNova Scotia link were established. ROUTE T h e choice of Clarenville as the junction point of the two submarine sections of the transatlantic system was determined primarily in relation * British P o s t Office. 217