The demand for submarine cables is increasing as the global Internet traffic is growing exponentially due to the expansion of cloud services, IoT, and generative AI. Hyperscalers such as GAFAM are investing in deploying submarine optical cables to provide real-time network services to their users.
Deployed submarine cables can be damaged by ship anchors or natural disasters, so it is necessary to identify the optical fiber failure location quickly, pull up the submarine cable, and repair it in such cases.
This white paper describes the overview and testing solutions for submarine optical cables.
Main Contents:
- Submarine Cables Overview
- Submarine Optical Cable Systems
- Necessity of Submarine Cable Testing
- Testing a Severed Network
Learn more about Anritsu's Coherent OTDR.
