Undersea Lightguide Cable Reliability Analyses
23 January 1990
Product assurance for undersea cable is a must for long term cost savings because the cost of repair for undersea cable is very high, on the order of one million dollars for each repair operation. In the past, coaxial cables have dominated the undersea communication systems with their demonstrated capabilities for long system life. With the advent of optical fiber, an emerging technology in the communications field, undersea communication systems are changing from coaxial cable to lightguide cable, which has optical fiber as the transmission medium for higher transmission rate and more information carrying capacity.