Omantel joins hands with industry experts to publish two SubOptic white papers on subsea cable efficiency and resiliency

Omantel joins hands with industry experts to publish two SubOptic white papers on subsea cable efficiency and resiliency

Muscat: Omantel, the leading provider of integrated telecommunication services in the Sultanate of Oman, has strengthened its role as an enabler of innovation in subsea cable technology by participating in two key industry white papers along with Infinera and Jio. The first white paper details a novel technique known as Automatic Fast System Optimization which demonstrates the ability to recover affected services on a subsea system with multiple branches, when one or more indirect branches experience a failure. Since subsea cable faults usually take months to repair, the implemented solution reduces the impact to a very large extent, by limiting the outage to only branches directly related to the fault while services on the indirect branches will be recovered and work as normal. This innovative solution shall enhance the overall efficiency level of operations and maintain service quality for a major part of the affected subsea cable, leading to better customer experience management.

The second white paper presents the case study of how modulation formats with wide range and fine granularity can be used in combination with electrical and optical switching techniques to improve the spectral efficiency of multi-branched subsea cable systems. The study also reveals how the same hardware can