Nec Corporation

Takanori Fujisawa

Hiroaki Tanaka

Kenichi Nomura

Yasushi Hara

Norio Yanagi

Naoto Iida

A dummy bit elimination device in a coding apparatus for use in a submarine cable system. The dummy bit elimination device has a converter for eliminating only dummy bits from FEC (Forward Error Correction) code. The coding apparatus has an optical-to-electrical signal transducer, a demultiplexer, a coder for generating an FEC code, a multiplexer for multiplexing inputs, and an electrical-to-optical signal transducer. The dummy bit elimination device is inserted between the coder and the multiplexer so that the outputs of the coder are fed to the converter and an outputs of the converter are fed to the multiplexer.

Dummy bit elimination device and coding apparatus for FEC code word

A method for retrieving information related to a desired item from a database storing information which are collected from a system to be monitored is disclosed. A plurality of states of the system are displayed in time sequence on screen of a display. Each of the states is represented by a plurality of items of collected information. When inputting a desired item of a state selected from the states displayed on the screen, a state of the system is retrieved from the database based on the desired item, and the retrieved state is displayed on the screen.

Retrieval method and apparatus for a monitoring system

A monitor information transmitting/receiving apparatus transmits/receives monitor information data about each cable landing station in a submarine cable system in which a plurality of cable landing stations are arranged in the form of a ring. The apparatus includes a monitor information setting section and a selection section. The monitor information setting section generates monitor information to be sent by setting monitor information about a self-station in monitor information including monitor information data about each station which is received through each of routes in two directions, and containing data for specifying set times in the monitor information. The selection section selects data, of the monitor information data about the respective stations which are received through the respective routes in the two direction, which corresponds to new set time as latest monitor information data.

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Takanori Fujisawa