Arctic Fibre Submarine Cable System
Technical Solution
Name
Title
2/28/2012
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Outline
• December 2011 System Overview and Connectivity
• Capacity, Equipage, and Sub-Systems
• Revised Arctic Fibre Configuration
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Arctic Fibre – Overview (December 2011 Design)
Chikura,
Japan
S9
55km
BU4
S10 – Stub
8.49km
S8
7,054km
BU3
S6
1,348km
S7
266km
Cambridge Bay,
Canada
S2
2,617km
Arctic Fibre
Phase 4 – FP Connectivity
Tuktoyaktuk,
Canada
S3
36km
BU1
S4
4,068km
BU2
Bude,
United Kingdom
S1
390km
S5
2,048km
Iqaluit,
Canada
Equipped (Lit) FP
Unequipped (Dark) FP
Milton,
Newfoundland
• The Arctic Fibre Cable System consists of four phases providing connectivity within
Canada, as well as Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific connectivity to the United Kingdom
and Japan.
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Arctic Fibre – System Technology
Sub-System
Component(s)
Submersible Equipment
Fibre
Positive Dispersion Type Fibre optimized to support coherent designs at 40Gbps and
100Gbps of transmission
Cable – Land, where applicable
Dryblock (Optical) Cable & High Voltage (Power/Ground) Cable
Cable – Undersea
TE SubCom SL17 Undersea Cable
TE SubCom SL21 Undersea Cable
Branching Units
TE SubCom 3-Port Power-Switched Branching Unit (PSBU)
Repeaters
TE SubCom 980nm Technology: Redundant pump lasers with High-Loss Loop Back
(HLLB) monitoring paths
Terminal Station Equipment
TE SubCom 40Gbps Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE):
Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE)
High Performance Optical Equipment (HPOE)
Wavelength Terminating Equipment (WTE)
Terminal Line Amplifier (TLA)
Wavelength Selective Switch Initial Loading Equipment (WSS-ILE)
Command Channel Equipment (CCE)
Line Monitoring Equipment (LME)
TE SubCom Multi-Side Tone (MST) LME
Power Feed Equipment (PFE)
TE SubCom Medium Voltage PFE
TE SubCom High Voltage PFE
SLTE Element Manager and Network
Management
TE SubCom Element Management System (TEMS) and TEMS Network Management
System (TEMS-NMS)
The equipment and technologies outlined above
represent the latest technology offered by TE
SubCom.
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Outline
• December 2011 System Overview and Connectivity
• Capacity, Equipage, and Sub-Systems
• Revised Arctic Fibre Configuration
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Arctic Fibre – Initial and Design Capacity
• Arctic Fibre will be initially equipped with TE SubCom 40Gbps Coherent
Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE).
• Each Digital Line Segment (DLS) in each Phase is initially equipped with
1x40Gbps.
• The 40Gbps base design capacity is 80x40Gbps per fibre pair using TE
SubCom 40Gbps Coherent SLTE.
– The 80x40Gbps design also supports a design capacity of 40x100Gbps
using TE SubCom 100Gbps Coherent SLTE.
• An alternative design for Arctic Fibre supports a design capacity of 80x100Gbps
per fibre pair by utilizing additional repeaters, enhanced fiber types, and TE
SubCom 100Gbps Coherent SLTE.
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Arctic Fibre – Wet System Design – 80x40Gbps / FP
Segment
Name
Segment Length (km)
(with Land Cable)
Installed
Repeaters
GEJ-Ts
GEJ-Ss
Repeater
Spacing
(km)
Pump Power
(mW)
BW (nm)
Channel Spacing (GHz)
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5.1
S5.2
S6
S7
S8
S9
S10
S11
390
2617
36
4068
569
1479
1348
266
7054
50
8.49
404
5
44
1
67
7
17
21
3
113
1
0
5
0
4
0
8
1
2
2
0
12
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
90
63
90
63
90
90
65
90
65
65
NA
90
320
320
320
320
320
320
320
320
320
320
NA
320
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
NA
18
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
25GHz - G5 , 50GHz - G6
Total
18289
284
29
9
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Arctic Fibre – Wet System Design – 80x100Gbps / FP
Segment
Name
Segment Length (km)
(with Land Cable)
Installed
Repeaters
GEJ-Ts
GEJ-Ss
Repeater
Spacing
(km)
Pump Power
(mW)
BW (nm)
Channel
Spacing (GHz)
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5.1
S5.2
S6
S7
S8
S9
S10
S11
390
2617
36
4068
569
1479
1348
266
7054
50
8.49
404
7
45
1
68
10
25
23
4
119
1
0
6
0
5
0
9
1
2
2
0
13
0
0
0
0
2
0
3
1
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
63
NA
63
400
400
400
400
400
400
400
400
400
400
NA
400
34
34
34
34
34
34
34
34
34
34
NA
34
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
50GHz - G6
Total
18289
309
32
11
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 1 – System Capacity
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 2 – System Capacity
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 3 – System Capacity
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 4 – System Capacity
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Arctic Fibre – Nain Option – System Capacity
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Arctic Fibre – Latency Estimations
Chikura,
Japan
S9
55km
BU4
S10 – Stub
8.49km
S8
7,054km
BU3
S6
1,348km
S7
266km
Cambridge Bay,
Canada
S2
2,617km
Arctic Fibre
Phase 4 – FP Connectivity
Tuktoyaktuk,
Canada
S3
36km
BU1
S4
4,068km
BU2
Bude,
United Kingdom
S1
390km
S5
2,048km
Iqaluit,
Canada
Equipped (Lit) FP
Unequipped (Dark) FP
Milton,
Newfoundland
Round-Trip Latency between Chikura, Japan and Bude, United Kingdom
• Digital Line Segment 1 (DLS1) is between Chikura and Cambridge Bay (8,452km).
• Digital Line Segment 2 (DLS2) is between Cambridge Bay and Bude (6,721km).
• Total distance between Chikura and Bude is 15,173km.
• For the 80x40Gbps Solution, Round-Trip Latency between Chikura and Bude is 158.0ms.
• For the 80x100Gbps Solution, Round-Trip Latency between Chikura and Bude is 149.2ms.
• The 80x40Gbps Solution uses Chromatic Dispersion Common Equipment (CDCE) for dispersion
compensation.
• The 80x100Gbps Solution does not require any CDCE.
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Arctic Fibre – System Powering
• Dual-End Feeding (DEF) between Cable Stations will power the undersea repeaters along the trunk cable
segments.
• DEF will be employed between Cambridge Bay and Bude and between Cambridge Bay and Chikura.
• High Voltage PFEs allow for DEF in all Trunk Cable Stations.
• Medium Voltage PFEs will allow Single-End Feeding (SEF) from the Branch Cable Station towards the
Sea-Ground at each BU, and power the undersea repeaters in each Branch.
• Medium Voltage PFEs are located in Milton, Iqaluit, and Tuktoyaktuk.
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Arctic Fibre – Line Monitoring Configuration
• Line Monitoring Equipment (LME) is provided for fault locatlization along the length of a repeater span via
in-service High Loss LoopBack (HLLB) measurements as well as out-of-service Optical Time Domain
Reflectometer (OTDR) measurements.
• LME is provided in each repeatered Cable Station to allow for monitoring of each FP within the System.
• The LME is capable of locating fiber breaks, span loss degradation, and pump failures.
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Typical TEMS Configuration
Other TEMS Domains
Remote Client
(Other Stations)
Workstation
(Optional)
Network Management System
(NMS)
Northbound Interface (NBI)
Operations
System Processor
(OSP)
(one per station)
WTE
TLA
Undersea
Cable
HPOE
HPOE
HPOE
Cable System WAN
Local Client
Workstation
(Standard)
SDH Client
Workstation
SDH
SDH
Equipment
Equipment
Cable Station LAN
• TE SubCom SLTE, as well as the PFE and LME, are all managed by the TEMS
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Arctic Fibre – Typical Data Communications Network (DCN)
Cambridge Bay
TEMS-Lite Server
Line Signals
LAN
10-BaseT Channels
(SLTE FEC Overhead)
LAN
LAN
Chikura
TEMS Server
Bude
TEMS Server
• Note that all Arctic Fibre Cable Stations include Data Communications Network
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Arctic Fibre – Typical Engineering Order Wire (EOW)
Cambridge Bay
TEMS Server
LAN
Line Signals
10-BaseT Channels
(SLTE FEC Overhead)
VOIP
Phone
VOIP
Phone
LAN
LAN
Chikura
TEMS Server
Bude
TEMS Server
• Note that all Arctic Fibre Cable Stations include Engineering Order Wire
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Outline
• December 2011 System Overview and Connectivity
• Capacity, Equipage, and Sub-Systems
• Revised Arctic Fibre Configuration
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Arctic Fibre – December 2011 Design
Chikura,
Japan
S9
55km
BU4
S10 – Stub
8.49km
S8
7,054km
BU3
S6
1,348km
S7
266km
Cambridge Bay,
Canada
S2
2,617km
Arctic Fibre
FP Connectivity
Tuktoyaktuk,
Canada
S3
36km
BU1
S4
4,068km
BU2
Bude,
United Kingdom
S1
390km
S5
2,048km
Iqaluit,
Canada
Equipped (Lit) FP
Unequipped (Dark) FP
Milton,
Newfoundland
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Arctic Fibre – Revised February 2012 Design
• Revised Configuration provided by the Purchasers.
• Phase 1 includes four (4) Branching Units (BUs):
– Two (2) Direct FP BUs,
– Two (2) BUs equipped with OADM capability (ePWFs).
• Phase 2 includes eight (8) BUs each equipped with OADM capability.
• Phase 3 includes two (2) BUs each equipped with OADM capability.
• Phase 4 includes both an East and West Configuration.
– West Configuration towards Japan includes eight (8) BUs with OADM
capability.
– East Configuration towards Bude does not include any additional BUs.
• Next step is for TE SubCom to provide pricing for Revised Configuration.
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Arctic Fibre – Revised February 2012 Design
• Phase 1 includes stubbed BUs for future connections Phase 2, Phase 4 (East),
Phase 5, and Phase 8. Phase 5 (Nain) will be provided as an Option.
• Phase 2 includes stubbed BUs for future connections to Phase 6 and Phase 7
off of Coral Harbour, NU, Canada.
• Phase 3 includes a stubbed BU for future connection to Phase 4 (West).
• Phase 4 (West) includes a terrestrial connection to Tokyo, as well as a stubbed
BU for a future extension.
• Phase 4 (East) includes a terrestrial connection to London.
• The main trunk cable segments each contain three express fibre pairs (3FP)
and one local fibre pair (1FP) which will be used for OADM connectivity to each
of the Spurs.
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 1 (Revised February 2012 Design)
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 2 (Revised February 2012 Design)
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 3 (Revised February 2012 Design)
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 4 (West) (Revised February 2012 Design)
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Arctic Fibre – Phase 4 (East) (Revised February 2012 Design)
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