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This comprehensive book provides both a high-level overview of submarine systems and the detailed specialist technical data for design, installation, repair, and all other aspects of this field

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Historical Overview of Submarine Cable Systems

3. Basics of Digital Cable Communication

4. Optical Amplification

5. Ultralong Haul Submarine Transmission

6. Unrepeatered Transmission

7. New Submarine Cable Applications

8. Architectures of Submarine Systems

9. Submarine systems processing

10. Submarine Fibre

11. Transmission mitigation technologies

12. Submerged plant equipment

13. Cable Technology

14. Submarine line terminal

15. System Planning and Deployment

16. Submarine Cable Upgrades

17. Marine and Maintenance

About the Author

José Chesnoy is an independent expert and consultant on undersea fiberoptic systems, and co-founder of the Subsea Optical Fiber Communications summer school. He began his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and pioneered the development of amplified submarine cables. Then he moved to Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) where he successively led the development of submarine systems and WDM equipment, and was CTO of ASN before moving into independent consulting.