Subject: [IP-Optical] Failure rate

From: "hnaser" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:24:16 -0400

Greeting,

I would like to receive your comments on the following questions. What is a
typical range for fiber failure rate? Is it safe to assume that it is around
500 FITS per mile (or 5e-7 failures/mile/hour)? Secondly, is it just the
fiber cut the main source for fiber failure? If you know any
document/paper/page that discusses the above you would kindly let me know.

Thank you.  

Hassan Naser, Ph.D.

University of Ottawa
School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE)
800 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2123
Fax: (613) 562-5664
Email: [email-masked] <mailto:hnaser@s>