Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd.

Hmn Technologies Co., Limited

Liping Ma

Changwu Xu

Yan Wang

Wendou Zhang

Ge Jin

Yuhe Li

Ye Wen

Embodiments of the present application provide a submarine optical cable system for reducing the complexity of the submarine optical cable system. The submarine optical cable system comprises a first trunk station, a second trunk station, a branch station, first XC equipment, second OXC equipment, a trunk fiber set and a branch fiber. The trunk fiber set at least comprises a first trunk fiber and a second trunk fiber. The branch station is connected with the second trunk fiber arranged between the first OXC equipment and the second OXC equipment through the branch fiber. The first trunk station is configured for sending a first service through a first transmission channel in a first transmission channel set and sending a second service through a second transmission channel in a second transmission channel set. The first OXC equipment is configured for transferring the first transmission channel to the second trunk fiber. The branch station is configured for uploading or downloading the first service and the second service through the second trunk fiber. The second OXC equipment is configured for transferring the transferred first transmission channel to the first trunk fiber.

Submarine optical cable system

Disclosed is a submarine network device, comprising a fiber set, a pump laser set, an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) set, a primary fiber coupler (CPL) set and a secondary CPL set, wherein the primary CPL set comprises N primary CPLs, the secondary CPL set comprises N secondary CPLs, with N being an integer greater than or equal to 3. The fiber set is configured to connect the pump laser set, the primary CPL set, the secondary CPL set and the EDFA set. An input port of each primary CPL in the primary CPL set is at least connected with a pump laser. An output port of each secondary CPL in the secondary CPL set is at least connected with an EDFA. Output ports of each primary CPL in the primary CPL set are respectively connected with two different secondary CPLs that are spaced by a secondary CPL, and input ports of each secondary CPL in the secondary CPL set are respectively connected with two different primary CPLs that are spaced by a primary CPL.

Submarine network device

Embodiments of the present invention provide a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer apparatus, and relate to the field of communications, so as to solve the problem of inconvenient line failure detection. The ROADM apparatus includes: a first ROADM, a second ROADM, one splitting coupler, four optical amplifiers, and four couplers. The embodiments of the present invention are used in a communications line architecture.

Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer apparatus

A method for detecting a submarine optical cable line includes: splitting a detection signal input to a first optical functional unit in an optical functional module of an optical cable line into a first detection signal and a second detection signal; directly coupling and looping back the first detection signal to an output end of a second optical functional unit in a direction opposite to the first optical functional unit to constitute a first loopback path, and outputting a first detection loopback signal; looping back the second detection signal passing through the first optical functional unit to the output end of the second optical functional unit to constitute a second loopback path, and outputting a second detection loopback signal; and detecting a status of the submarine optical cable line according to power of the first detection loopback signal and power of the second detection loopback signal.

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Tianjin, China

Liping Ma