How Will Future Subsea Systems Look Like?

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Moscone Center

The workshop will address challenges and opportunities for future submarine systems and will be divided into two parts. The first part will deal with the need for strengthened resilience of submarine systems while historical trend is to increase transported capacity toward Pb/s. The question answered by speakers will deal with the potential interest of mesh submarine networking including technical challenges such as the power supply distribution across branches, in opposition to the usual trend to maximize throughput per cable. Possible implication of the advent of ZR+ pluggable interfaces will be discussed compared with the MIMO DSP requirements for novel linecards potentially supporting coupled core MCF in the future. While MCF appears to reach manufacturing maturity, long term evolution of subsea cables will also be discussed in the light of the advent of hollow core fibres, which may allow for reducing repeaters count and multi-band systems.

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