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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2021
Subcom, Llc, Eatontown, NJ (US);
William W. Patterson, Freehold, NJ (US);
D. Mark Havens, Wall, NJ (US);
Robert P. Bellomo, Montclair, NJ (US);
Bamdad Bakhshi, Asbury Park, NJ (US);
Robert Behringer, Monmouth Beach, NJ (US);
Roberto Mattos, Morganville, NJ (US);
Ying Jiang, Metuchen, NJ (US);
William C. Barnett, Freehold, NJ (US);
Mark Enright, Hampton, NJ (US);
SubCom, LLC, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Abstract
This application describes techniques for testing fiber optic telecommunication systems, such as undersea fiber optic cable systems. Testing terminals may be deployed at a location of terminating equipment for a fiber optic cable. The testing terminals may be operated remotely. The testing terminals may be configured to programmatically test the cable by loading one or more tests and automatically configure the cable's transmitters and receivers based on predetermined loading schemes selected based on the tests to be performed. The testing terminals may iterate over channels and fiber pairs of the cable and may use back-to-back tests to remove artifacts from test results. Using the described techniques, a cable's channels and fiber pairs can be fully characterized in the amount of time afforded for a typical testing schedule, which was not generally possible using conventional testing.