System Specification Revision: Draft 2

1.0 Scope of this Document

Source: These categories were initially developed for application in the defence sector.
The technical requirements for the System will be documented through a series of
specifications. This document, the System Specification (Type A) defines the System
functional baseline and includes the results from the user requirements, feasibility
analysis (4), operational requirements and the maintenance concept, top-leel functional
analysis, and identifies the critical technical performance measures (T!"s) and design
dependent parameters (##!s).
This System Specification leads into the following subordinate specifications coering the
subsystems, configuration items, equipment, software and other components of the
System.
$. System Specification (type A) % includes the technical, performance, operational
and support characteristics for the System as an entity. &t includes the allocation
of requirements of functional areas, and it defines the arious functional-area
interfaces. The information deried from the feasibility analysis, operational
requirements, maintenance concept, and the functional analysis is coered. &t is
written in 'performance-related' terms, and describes design requirements in
terms of the 'whats' (i.e., the functions that the system is to perform and the
associated metrics).
(. Subsystem Specifications (non-)*TS) (type +)-include the technical requirements
for those items below the System leel where research, design, and deelopment
are required. *ne Subsystem Specification shall be prepared for each subsystem
design. ,ach Subsystem Specification shall coer equipment items, assemblies,
computer programs, facilities, and so on. ,ach specification shall include the
performance, effectieness, and support characteristics that are required in the
eoling of design from the system leel and down.
-. )*TS Subsystem Specifications (type ))-include the technical requirements for
those items below the top System leel that can be procured 'off the shelf.' The
)*TS Subsystem Specifications shall coer standard system components
(equipment, assemblies, units, cables), specific computer programs, and so on.
,ach )*TS Subsystem Specification shall detail any differences in enironment,
operation, maintenance or handling for use of the product as part of the System as
opposed to the product.s design serice.
4. !rocess Specifications (type #)-include the technical requirements that coer a
serice that is performed on any component of the System (e.g., machining
bending, welding, plating, heat treating, sanding, mar/ing, pac/ing, and
processing).
0. "aterial Specifications (type ,)-include the technical requirements that pertain to
raw materials, mi1tures (e.g., oils, metals, paints, chemical compounds), or
semifabricated materials (e.g., electrical cable, piping) that are used in the
fabrication of a subsystem.
This System Specification (type A) proides the technical baseline for the system as an
entity.
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2.0 Definitions (see System Definitions)
3.0 Applicable Documents
3$4 IEEE Guide to Software Requirements Specification, &,,, Std. 5-6 - $754
3(4 Information anagement Issues !acing "cean "#servatories, $otes from an
Informal $E%T&$E 'or(shop, April $(-$-, (66$,
http822www.neptune.washington.edu2pub2techno2&".html
3-4 Incorporated Research Institutions for Seisomology )IRIS*,
http822www.iris.washington2.edu29:2iris.html
344 Real+Time, ,ong+Term "cean - Earth Studies at the Scale "f a Tectonic %late,
$E%T&$E !easi#ility Study, ;ational *ceanographic !artnership !rogram (;*!!),
<une (666, http822www.neptune.washington.edu2pub2documents2hi-
qual=feas=study2hi-res=whole.pdf
304 $E%T&$E 'hite %aper, September (666,
http822www.ocean.washington.edu2neptune2pub2white=paper2tabconts.html
3>4 .isual odeling with Rational Rose and &?, Terry :uatrani, Addison-@esley, $775
3A4 ?t. #ewain ,mrich, Bormation *ceanographer, *perations Support )entre !acific,
personal communication
354 Real+Time, ,ong+Term "cean - Earth Studies at the Scale "f a Tectonic %late,
*ceanography Colume $- ;o.(2(666
374 $E%T&$E /ata anagement and 0rchiving System, /esign Requirements, #raft
Cersion 6$, ($ <anuary (66$.
3$64 Real+Time, ,ong+Term "cean and Earth Studies at the Scale of a Tectonic %late,
*cean 9emisphere ;etwor/ !roDect2&nternational *cean ;etwor/ <oint Symposium,
<anuary (66$.
3$$4 1onceptual /esign and "ptions 1onsidered for a 1a#led Seafloor "#servatory /ata
$etwor(, &ssue 6.( (!E,?&"&;AEF #EABT) 4 April (66(, ;,!TG;, )ommunications
#esign Team, @oods 9ole *ceanographic &nstitution.
3$(4 email from Heorge Bo1 of <!? dated (4 "ay (66( to #ae Eodgers, 9arold Iir/ham
and !eter !hibbs.
3$-4 $E%T&$E "ut+of+2and 1ontrol and Time /istri#ution by Alan )hae, Andy "affei
and Al +radley, $( #ec (66$
3$44 $E%T&$E /es(top Study, Bugro Seafloor Sureys, $- Bebruary (66(
.0 Re!uirements
.1 System Definition
.1.1 "eneral Description
Source: 3 page iv
The System, consisting of fiber-optic2power cable and nodes on the seafloor, will
proide large amounts of power (/ilowatts) and communications lin/s
(gigabits2second) at distributed nodes. )onnected to these nodes will be sensors
and sensor networ/s, some of which constitute Jcommunity e1perimentsK while
others are deeloped and2or used by indiidual inestigators. ,1tension cables will
allow instruments to be located remote from the nodes. E*Cs and AGCs will
proide mobile platforms. An information management system and archie stores,
inde1es, and proides metadata metadata for all the data to enable the lin/ages
and connections between the arious processes to be accessed by an e1tended
community of scientists, students, and the public.
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.1.2 #perational Re!uirements
$.$.$.$ ;eed
Source 45 page i
Traditional e1peditionary science has characteriLed some portion of an ocean or
planet within the constraints of data collection from a ship. Such isits are
inadequate to fully ealuate the suite of models and testable hypotheses that hae
grown out of this e1ploratory wor/.
*cean scientists now stand on the threshold of a scientific reolution, a paradigm
shift made possible by adances in computational sophistication, communication
and power technologies, robotic systems, and sensor design. The ability to enter,
sense, and interact with the total ocean enironment for e1tended periods is within
our grasp. &t is time to e1pand beyond short-term e1peditions using research
esselsM it is time to moe toward a long-term presence on, aboe, and below a
section of seafloor as large as a tectonic plate.
$.$.$.( "ission
Source: 3 page iii
The ision for &ntegrated *cean *bsering System (&**S) is to proide a sustained
national system for obserations of the ocean with outputs that are easily
accessible for creating forecasts and products essential to the nation.s economy,
the management of marine resources, public health and safety, and national
security.
The ision of ;,!TG;, (which is part of &**S) is to proide a new &nternet-lin/ed
platform for integrated earth and ocean sciences at the scale of an entire tectonic
plate using a networ/ of submarine fiber-optic2power cables to support multiple in
situ sensor arrays and robotic laboratories for real-time remote inter-action with
dynamic processes on, aboe, and below the seafloor.
$.$.$.- ?ife )ycle
Source: 3 page 67
The useful life of the ;,!TG;, infrastructure is at least -6 years with (4-hour-per-
day aailability once operational.
&n this conte1t the ;,!TG;, infrastructure means the submerged cable and the
housings for the submerged plant.
.1.3 $unctional Analysis an% System Definition
)Source this document*
The System shall perform the following functions8
Eeliably transmit data from a series of scientific instruments, generally located on
or around the <uan de Buca plate, to Shore Stations. (the #ata)
Eeliably transmit instructions from the Shore Stations to the scientific instruments.
(the &nstructions)
!ermit direct e1periment to e1periment communications
Eeliably transmit power from the Shore Station to the scientific instruments.
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!rocess and archie the #ata and instructions and enironmental data (e.g. power
status)for future use.
Allow !rieledged Gsers to issue the &nstructions from remote sites.
Allow !rieledged Gsers to reiew real-time or archied data from remote sites
!ermit Jplug and playK for a wide ariety of instruments
.1. &aintenance 'oncept
)Source this document*
+ranching Gnits and +ac/bone cable maintained by a conentional cable ship
;odes maintained by a G;*?S essel
;ode maintenance by cutting out e1isting failed or diminished node and returning
to a shore-based facility for refurbishment, (unless it can be demonstrated that it is
feasible, with no significant loss of performance, to maintain nodes on board a
essel without cutting cable), and by splicing on a new or refurbished node.
!arts support by supplier, or from stoc/ purchased at time of construction.
.1.( Allocation of Re!uirements
The following subdiisions based on areas of e1pertise hae been identified8
)Source 3 Section 6 8 this document*
These allocation descriptions outline, in general terms, the scope of each
su#division. Every part of the System is included in one of these su#divisions, #ut
not in more than one. It is anticipated that the parties responsi#le for each
su#division will use these descriptions as a guide to prepare a more detailed and
specific description #ased on their su#system9s requirements and implementation.
!ower System % including the System power supply from the public utility to the
;ode Science )onnectors, power supplies to all other subsystems, grounding,
electrodes, fault isolation, power monitoring, control and fault finding and reporting
of !ower System status to the *bseratory "anagement System.
#ata )ommunications System (#)S)% including data transmission between the
Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment to the ;ode Science )onnectors, data
transmission between ;odes, the communication requirements of the #)S system
and the other subsystems, #)S monitoring, control and fault finding and reporting
of #)S status to the *bseratory "anagement System.
Timing #istribution % including collection of the Timing signal at the Shore Station,
distribution of the timing signal as required in the shore Station, receipt and
distribution of the timing signal at each ;ode and reporting of Timing #istribution
status to the *bseratory "anagement System.
*bseratory "anagement System (*"S) % including collection and presentation of
the data showing the status of other subsystems, the System operator interface,
protection of the System from potentially haLardous commands, automatic
adDustment of the system functions as conditions and obserations change, manual
control of indiidual system elements and the transmission of system status data to
#"AS.
#ata "anagement and Archiing System (#"AS) - including the infrastructure
needed to accept the data flow from the Scientific &nstruments ia the #)S and
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System status data from the *"S, and to route the data in near real-time to
interested subscribers ia the Terrestrial +ac/haul, the interfaces needed to control
Scientific &nstruments connected to ;,!TG;,, a long-term secure data archie for
;,!TG;,, the user interfaces needed to ma/e the data usefully accessible to the
ocean sciences community and reporting of #"AS status to the *bseratory
"anagement System.
Submerged cable and submerged cable terminations - including all cable that is not
in a pressure casing offshore from the closest manhole inshore of the cable landing
(the beach manhole), all cable between the Shore Station and the +each "anhole,
all submerged cable terminations, splices, bul/head penetrators, connectors and
JdumbK branching units.
Submerged !lant (housings, pac/aging and heat transfer) % including all pressure
casings (e1cept those pressure casings specifically included as Submerged cable
and submerged cable terminations), deployment frames, connector supports and
associated deployment and recoery equipment.
Science &nstrument &nterface and ,1tension )ables % including all equipment
offshore of the ;ode Science )onnectors, e1cept those items specifically included
as Submerged cable and submerged cable terminations and Submerged !lant
(housings, pac/aging and heat transfer), and specifically including number of
conductors and fibers in any cable, any S&& cards that may be required, and any
communications and power control and deliery issues that may come from the use
of ,1tension )ables.
"arine % including marine route surey, cable Eoute engineering, shore landing
wor/ between the +each "anhole and start of ploughing, cable armor selection,
Submerged )able and Submerged !lant installation equipment and procedure and
Submerged !lant operations and maintenance.
Shore Station % including building construction or modification, 9CA), lighting and
building facilities, and including construction of cable support facilities between the
Shore Station and the +each "anhole.
Shore Station ?A;2@A; and Terrestrial +ac/haul % including proision of
communications between #"AS and the &nternet, communications between Shore
Stations (S?T, to S?T,), and communications between geographically separate
#"AS and Shore Stations (if applicable).
!ermitting % including permitting and any other wor/ associated with Eights of
@ay, leases, licenses and property rights for the Submerged )able, the Shore
Stations and the Terrestrial +ac/haul.
.1.) $unctional *nterfaces an% 'riteria
See Attached tables
.2 System 'haracteristics
These characteristics descri#e the functions that the system shall perform in order
to allow a user to achieve the user requirements. The System characteristics shall
#e defined as follows:
4. Each characteristic is unam#iguous
7. Each characteristic is complete, and the complete set of characteristics
descri#es all functionality required from the system.
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6. The correct implementation of the characteristic is verifia#le in a practical and
afforda#le way.
3. Each characteristic is self+consistent, and is consistent with the other
characteristics of the system.
:. The characteristic is easily modifia#le. This implies the characteristics are well
organi;ed and contain a minimum level of redundancy.
<. The characteristic is tracea#le. This implies the origin of the characteristic is
clearly identified, and the characteristic can #e identified in all documents that are
#ased on these characteristics.
=. &sa#le during the operations and maintenance phase of the software life cycle.
.2.1 +erformance 'haracteristics
/efinition of the #asic operating characteristics of the system )rate, capacity, throughput,
power output etc.*.
S!,$ Aerage and pea/ power deliery
$
to the ;ode Science )onnectors for a particular
node (shall not be less than -.- /@ and 7.- /@, respectiely. )Source 3 page 65*
S!,( !ea/ total of all power deliered to the ;ode Science )onnectors at any one time
for the entire system8 $66 /@. )Source 3 page 65*
S!,- !ower deliery
(
to the user shall be at two oltage leels8 45 C #)and 466 C #).
)Source 3 page 35*
S!,4 $.- /@ of 45C #) power shall be aailable to the ;ode Science )onnectorsat each
node. )Source > %ower Group*
S!,0 Aerage and pea/ data rate for a particular node8 $66 "b2s and $
Hb2s,respectiely. )Source 3 page 65*
S!,> !ea/ data rate for the entire system8 $6 Hb2s, sum of total data landed at the
Shore Stations in any gien second. )Source 3 page 65*.
S!,A Time &nformation shall be proided at each node with $Nsec accuracy, corrected for
latency. )Source )discussion* 3 Section 6.:, 46 page 7.*.
S!,5 The System shall include Hlobal !ositioning Satellite (H!S) receiers and Timing
#istribution Sheles at both Shore Stations to proide a ( "b2s timing output in
accordance with the requirements of &TG-T Eecommendation H.5$$. The Timing
#istribution Sheles shall be e1pandable to a minimum of $6 1 ( "b2s timing
outputs. )Source this document*
S!,7 The System shall support the entire range of instruments from those instruments
that produce data at ery low data rates and will require a minimum of user
interaction (for e1ample setting sampling rates), to other instruments, such as
tethered bottom roers with 9#TC, ideo cameras and manipulators that create up
to (6"b2s of data on a continuous basis and will require e1tensie user interaction
inoling closed loop control. Source: ?3@ )p.3<*
S!,$6 All submersible plant shall be qualified for an e1ternal wor/ing pressure of
-066msw. Source 43 Ta#le 7.4.6.
1
(Source 4 page 30) proposed Average and peak power delivery for a particular node of 2kW and 20kW
respectively. These goals have been modified and further defined based on estimates of node efficiency
and modelling of the network power system.
2
(Source 4 page 40) proposed 240 and 4! as the voltage levels. As the design of the converter has
progressed" the voltage level of 240 has been raised to 400.
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S!,$$ The ma1imum time from reception at the Shore Station to re-transmission to a
user shall be /ept to a minimum. The #"AS subsystem design group is to prepare
a table of datatype O priority, s allowed latency, for reiew and inclusion into this
document. Source: ?3@ )p.3<*
S!,$( The archie shall be designed to handle up to n requests for data per day, and to
delier up to nn Higabytes of data per day to archie users. All data shall be
accessible ia the internet. Source A page 7=
S!,$- The #"AS shall be designed to support up to T2/ simultaneous real-time data
consumers. Source A page 7=
S!,$4 The archie shall be designed to handle an initial data rate of (56 Terabytes per
year. Source A page 7=
S!,$0 All shore-station equipment including !ower Beed ,quipment, Submarine ?ine
Terminal ,quipment, ?ine "onitoring ,quipment, ;etwor/ !rotection ,quipment,
and Timing distribution ,quipment shall be operable off a single uninterruptible
power supply . Source this document .
S!,$> *bseratory "anagement equipment and #"AS equipment shall operate using the
mains supply oltage aailable at each station and shall be connected to Shore
Station uninterruptible power supplies as appropriate. Source this document
S!,$A Terrestrial networ/ segments shall proide standard transport meeting interface
requirements, and shall meet other such requirements T+#. Source this document
S!,$5 Terrestrial networ/ segments shall proide one ( "b2s oerhead channel for use by
the ;etwor/ !rotection ,quipment for each *)45 channel or equialent carried on
the terrestrial networ/. Source this document
S!,$7 The terrestrial networ/ segments shall be capable of indicating a fault, alarm, or
serice interruption (including ?oss of Brame, ?oss of Signal, A&S, A"S, and signal
degradation) to the *"S by means of a laser shutdown of the affected channel(s).
Source this document
S!,(6 The submerged cable shall be capable of conducting electrical power to submerged
equipment placed at appropriate interals along it. The part of the cable conducting
electrical power shall be electrically insulated from the surroundings. The electrical
insulation for any and all such cables, whether single or multiple conductors, shall
be capable of meeting the withstand capabilities defined in the releant test plan.
Source this document
S!,($ !erformance of the communication system between the node and the shore Station
at ,nd of ?ife (,*?) shall meet or e1ceed the requirements of &TG-T
Eecommendation H.5(> for ,rrored Second Eatio, Seerely ,rrored Second Eatio
and +ac/ground +loc/ ,rror Eatio. Source this document
S!,(( The end-of-life performance margin for all submerged Segments shall be stated in
terms of the : factor. The end-of-life performance margins shall be no less than
6.06 d+. The designers shall use all reasonable endeaours to ensure an end-of-
life performance margin of no less than $.6 d+. &n the case where the end-of-life
performance margin is less than $.6 d+ (but greater than or equal to 6.06 d+), the
designer shall proide a detailed description and analysis of how the end-of-life
performance is assured. !erformance budgets shall include allowances for
anticipated repairs resulting from intrinsic (internal system) faults and e1trinsic
(e1ternal) faults. Source this document
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S!,(- @hen the !ower Beeding ,quipment (!B,) is switched from double-end feeding to
single-end feeding or from in-serice equipment to redundant equipment in a
controlled manner and ice ersa, no seerely errored seconds shall occur. Source
this document
S!,(4 @hen the !ower Beeding ,quipment (!B,) is switched from double-end feeding to
single-end feeding in an uncontrolled manner, e.g. in the case of a power feed fault
or emergency shutdown, a ma1imum of two seerely errored seconds shall occur.
Such errors shall be included in the error allocation when assessing Segment
performance (&TG-T Eecommendation H.5(>). Source this document
S!,(0 The Shore Station !ower supply shall be able to be switched from feeding from the
local grid to bac/up power and ice ersa without resulting in any seerely errored
seconds. Source this document
S!,(> @hen the local grid powering a Shore Station fails, the transfer of the Shore
Station !ower from feeding from the local grid to generator power and ice ersa
shall be automatic. Source this document
S!,(A &f the power system design requires both a primary and secondary bac/up power
source to meet the reliability requirements, then in the eent that the primary
bac/up power source in the Shore Station fails to come on line, the secondary
source shall start to come on line automatically. Source this document
S!,(5 The Shore Station bac/-up power supply shall be designed such that the System,
when powered from the bac/up power supply, meets or e1ceeds the reliability
goals. Source this document
S!,(7 &f the power system design requires both a primary and secondary bac/up power
source to meet the reliability requirements, it shall be designed such that no
seerely errored seconds shall occur in the eent that both the power grid and the
primary bac/up system fail at once. Source this document
S!,-6 All Shore Station equipment shall operate normally under the following conditions8
Source this document
Temperature8 6 to 46)
Eelatie 9umidity8 up to 70P ;on-)ondensing
;ote8 the nominal enironmental conditions of the Shore Stations is (0)
and 06P E9.
S!,-$ &n the eent of a loss of one Shore Station, the System shall be capable of routeing
all #ata to the remaining Shore Station.
S!,-( The ma1imum time delay between reception of #ata at a ;ode Science )onnector
to the deliery of that data to the S?T, in the Shore Station shall be less than n
milliseconds.
S!,-- The ariance in deliery of sequential pac/ets (Ditter) from a ;,!TG;, node to a
Shore Station shall not e1ceed ( milliseconds. (Source8 3$04, (p$A)
S!,-4 Serial instrument communications must be transparently supported (Source8 344
(p. 4>)
.2.2 +hysical 'haracteristics
/efinition of the #asic physical characteristics of the system > si;e, weight, shape,
#oundaries etc.
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S!9$ The System shall be capable of proiding data connectiity for potentially
thousands of undersea scientific instruments distributed at -6 or more
geographically separated obseratory nodes to data processing equipment located
on the &nternet. )Source 44 page 3*.
S!9( The System shall include terrestrial networ/ segments or capacity inland from the
Shore Stations or between Shore Stations. )Source This /ocument*.
S!9- The terrestrial networ/ segments shall be in-ground fiber where aailable. Biber
characteristics T+A Source this document
S!94 The Shore Stations shall proide a suitable enironment for the installation and
operation of the subsea cable terminal equipment, power feed equipment, line
monitoring equipment, those parts of the #"AS that are located there and the
enironmental monitoring system. Source this document
S!90 All equipment in the Shore Stations and installation practices for that equipment
shall conform to the highest leel of earthqua/e protection (e.g. ;orth American
Qone 4) encountered at any station. Source this document
S!9> All Shore Station equipment and #"AS equipment shall be suitable for installation
in a standard central office enironment. Source this document
S!9A The submerged cables, cable Doints and terminations shall protect the fibers against
pressure, abrasion, e1cessie elongation, chemical reaction, and water penetration
so that the System performance requirements can be met throughout the design
life of the System. Source this document
S!95 Submerged plant housings, penetrations and cable terminations shall be designed
to function continuously without maintenance for the System life. . Source this
document
S!97 Submerged plant housings, penetrations and cable terminations shall be designed
to allow installation, operation, recoery and re-linstallation of submersible plant in
depths up to the design depth with no degradation in mechanical, electrical and
optical performance. Source this document
S!9$6 The tensile and torsional strengths of the submerged plant housings shall be a
minimum of two times greater than that of the highest strength cable. Source this
document
S!9$$ The reliability of components in submerged plant requires a controlled ambient
internal atmosphere. *er the system life the relatie humidity of the atmosphere
oer the operating temperature range shall be controlled to (6P by means such as
the introduction of appropriate quantities of hydrogen getters and moisture
absorbing desiccants. The resulting controlled internal atmosphere shall be suitable
for maintaining the life e1pectations of all internal components. Source this
document
S!9$( All bul/heads and gland assemblies which act as the submerged plant housing
sealing system shall preent water and gas ingress to the internal unit , both
directly from the surrounding sea and from a1ial cable lea/age due to a cable brea/
close to the housing. Source this document
S!9$- The submerged plant shall be tolerant of the mechanical shoc/ and ibration leels
shown below, which hae long been accepted as the appropriate leels for
submerged equipment. Source this documentBsu#marine telecom specs.
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Bump/Shock Vibration
ACTIVITY Severity
(g)
Duration
(ms)
Number Freq. Range
(Hz)
Severity
(g)
Duration
(Minutes)
TRANSPORT
() A!!ears as "F #ibrations to $% & %.$ Ran'om
SH(P)OARD
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$. "a1imum leels recorded during transportation, shipboard handling, laying and recoery -
including transit through linear cable engine.
(. )omprised of $>A bumps in > directions.
-. )omprised of -6 minutes in - directions.
4. )omprised of >>A bumps in > directions.
S!9$4 The cables shall be able to withstand the abrasie forces associated with
manufacture, deployment, rough or non-flat bottoms, and repair without
degradation in optical, mechanical or electrical performance. Source this document
S!9$0 )able type selection shall ta/e into consideration /nown threats to the cable,
seabed conditions, burial requirements, enironmental haLards, e1ternal haLards,
the )able Selection )riteria, and other system requirements. Source this document
S!9$> )able route engineering shall minimiLe conflict between the cable and other seabed
users. Source this document
S!9$A The submerged cable shall be buried in the seabed where possible to water depth
(666m. Source this document
S!9$5 Submerged plant shall be adequately protected from damage from fishing gear
where located in less than (666msw. Source this document
S!9$7 The bac/bone cable shall be routed to aoid significant seabed haLards and
haLardous features. Source this document
S!9(6 The System design shall gie scientists arious options for placement of
instruments at sites of scientific interest, een though those sites may be up to
06/m from the bac/bone. *ptions shall include arying distances and power and
data rates, up to and including a full node capability 06/m from the bac/bone.
Source this document
S!9($ The burial of submerged plant including ;odes and branching units shall not result
in detriment to the ;ode performance or reliability. Source this document
S!9(( Submerged plant shall be designed to operate with a temperature of 0R) at the
outside of the pressure housing. Source this document
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.2.3 ,ffectiveness Re!uirements
Requirements that spea( to the effectiveness of the System in performing its functions,
given that the System will perform.
S,B$ The System shall be completed at a cost not to e1ceed the proDect budget. Source
> This document
S,B( The System shall be completed within the period allowed in the proDect !lan of
wor/. Source > This document
S,B- The System shall be capable of preenting unauthoriLed personnel from accessing
its resources and research data. )Source 44 page 3*.
S,B4 The System shall be capable of protecting data collected by indiidual inestigators
so that it can be /ept priate (according to funding agency guidelines). )Source 44
page 3*.
S,B0 The engineering infrastructure shall be capable of reconfiguring itself automatically
fast enough to suppress fault propagation and to accommodate the acquisition of
science data that are eent drien, e.g. a seafloor olcanic eruption. )Source 3
page 66*.
S,B> &n order to aoid corruption of scientific data, all submerged plant shall be designed
to eliminate JnoiseK, such as acoustic or electromagnetic noise. @here noise is
unaoidable, it shall be tightly controlled and defined such that it can be identified
and filtered. Bor instance all timing signals in a node shall be synchroniLed.
Source > This document and aripro.
S,BA There shall be defined standards for pac/aging and transmitting data from sensors
to Shore Stations and all interface requirements for e1periment designers. Source:
?3@ )p.<7*
S,B5 Software Supplier shall commit to proiding open, fully documented interfaces
between all networ/ management and power management components and
between networ/ management systems and e1ternal systems. Source: This
/ocument
S,B7 Supplier shall commit to proiding all necessary support and documentation
required to ma/e use of networ/ management interfaces. Source: This /ocument
S,B$6 The data archie shall presere both the raw data originating from ;,!TG;,
instruments, and the meta-data describing these data. Source: ?3@ )p.:<*
S,B$$ The #"AS shall support an eent, feature and pattern detection processing, and
shall allow the detected eents, features, and patterns to be stored in the archie.
Source: ?3@ )p.<3*
S,B$( )ertain maritime agencies may require that System instruments be shut down for
short periods of time. This could include both shutting down specific instruments in
a specified area at a specific time, and random shutdowns of instruments. The
System shall support such shut-downs, whether controlled by ;,!TG;, operations
staff, or by somebody e1ternal to ;,!TG;,. The System shall be able to confirm
that instruments are not gathering data during shut-downs. Source: ?=@
S,B$- Since the #"AS hardware and software systems may not hae the capacity to
handle unlimited public access to non-proprietary ;,!TG;, data, the System shall
hae the ability to protect itself by limiting public access to data when necessary by
prioritiLing !ublic Gsers Source: A page 77
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S,B$4 The #"AS shall be able to accept real-time data from e1ternal sources that may
not be aailable from ;,!TG;, data (for e1ample wind speed, wae height, etc.),
but are aailable from other data sources. The #"AS shall be able to accept data
from these other sources, and incorporate the data into the ;,!TG;, data flow.
Source A page 76
S,B$0 The ;,!TG;, archie shall attribute user-generated data to the !riileged Gser
who generated the data. 9oweer detailed erification of user submitted data is
impractical, and therefore the user submitting the data shall be responsible for the
quality of the data. Source A page 7:
S,B$> "eta-data shall be included with all data stored in the archie and users may select
which metadata to retriee. Source A page 7<
S,B$A The #"AS shall accommodate e1tracting statistics and2or eents from data files,
and storing them in a searchable form in the catalogues. Source A page 7<
S,B$5 &n order to proide Jsingle stop shoppingK, data stored in e1ternal archies which is
complementary to the data in the ;,!TG;, archie shall be aailable through the
;,!TG;, archie. This might include data collected by nearby weather buoys,
satellite images, etc. Source A page 7<
S,B$7 The System shall be designed such that proprietary data files and all System and
instrument functions shall not be accessible without appropriate priileges. .
Source A page 7C
S,B(6 #ata stored in the archie shall undergo :)2:A analysis, and the results shall be
stored in the archie catalogues. Source: ?3@ )p.66, p.<7*
S,B($ Biber type selection shall ta/e into account management of chromatic dispersion
throughout the system and the impact of the proposed fiber configuration on
system operations and maintenance. Source this document
S,B(( The Superisory System shall be capable of monitoring critical parameters that
indicate the performance of each ;ode and gie early indication of performance
degradation. The information obtained shall be accessible to both Shore Stations.
Source this document
S,B(- The Superisory System shall permit measurements to be made in-serice
throughout the life of the System without degradation of any System performance
parameters. Source this document
S,B(4 Subsystem #esign teams shall proide a schedule of #), critical A), and non-
critical A) loads for each Shore Station showing power requirements for the initial
and ultimate System capacity. Source this document
S,B(0 All power feeding equipment shall be demonstrated to minimiLe the ris/ of failure
of System power. Source this document
S,B(> !ower feeding equipment at all stations shall be fully duplicated and include a
dummy load. Source this document
S,B(A The !ower Beeding ,quipment (!B,) shall comprise the equipment for conerting
the Shore Station.s power supply into the form required to power the undersea
Segments. The !B, shall be interconnected with the undersea cable to feed power
to the undersea ;odes and branching units. Source this document
S,B(5 The !ower Beeding ,quipment (!B,) of each Shore Station shall hae sufficient
redundancy such that the Segment meets the oerall reliability requirements
specified in this specification. &n case of !B, failure in one Shore Station, the !B, in
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the other Shore Station shall be capable of automatically feeding the System
without operator interention. Source this document
S,B(7 &ndication shall be proided both on the Shore Station ,quipment and *bseratory
"anagement System to clearly show which parts of the equipment are wor/ing and
which are on stand-by or off-line. Source this document
S,B-6 Submarine ?ine Terminating ,quipment (S?T,) shall proide conersion of signals
from the obseratory management system and #"AS to a format suitable for
transmission oer the submarine line and shall conert signals receied from the
submarine line to a standard interface leel. Source this document
S,B-$ ;etwor/ "anagement Systems shall proide fault, configuration, performance, and
security management at local, and global leels. Source this document
S,B-( The submarine cable System shall include networ/ management systems consisting
of8
?ocal )raft Terminals
,lement "anagement Systems
;etwor/ "anagement Systems
#ata )ommunications ;etwor/ Source this document
S,B-- ?ocal craft terminals shall allow fault, configuration, performance, and security
management of a single networ/ element at a local leel. Source this document
S,B-4 ,lement "anagement Systems (,"S) shall proide fault, configuration,
performance and security management on a continuous basis at a local or regional
leel. ,lement managers shall be proisioned at each )able ?anding Station or as
required to proide complete superision of all networ/ elements in the submarine
cable system. ,lement management systems shall proide an interface to the
;etwor/ "anagement Systems. Source this document
S,B-0 The *bseratory "anagement System (*"S) shall proide fault, configuration,
performance and security management on a continuous basis at a regional and
global leel. ;etwor/ managers shall be proisioned at Shore Stations and at two
additional locations to be specified. The *"S shall proide end-end path
monitoring, as well as end to end fault and performance management. The *"S
shall manage all System components including S?T,, !B,, and ?",. Source this
document
S,B-> The *bseratory "anagement System shall proide real time and historical
reporting of alarm, performance, and configuration data. The *"S shall allow
generation of alarm, performance, and configuration reports in predefined and ad
hoc formats. Source this document
S,B-A The Shore Station ?A;2@A; and Terrestrial +ac/haul shall consist of local and wide
area networ/s supporting the &nternet !rotocol (&!) and any other protocols
necessary for operation of the networ/ management systems. ?ocal area networ/s
shall be )ategory 0 twisted pair cables running $66 +ase-T ,thernet. @ide area
connectiity shall be proided by means of oerhead channels on the S?T,. The
Terrestrial +ac/haul shall include all necessary hubs, routers, and switches to
proide complete connectiity between all components of the System. The
Terrestrial +ac/haul shall be designed such that no Shore Station is isolated from
the other Shore Station or from the #"AS in the eent of a cable brea/ or other
fault. The Terrestrial +ac/haul shall include sufficient router ports to allow a
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bac/up connection between each )able ?anding Station and the #"AS oer a
leased line, dial-up facility, or frame relay serice. Source this document
S,B-5 All networ/ management system components shall be fully duplicated and
redundant. All networ/ management system components shall be designed so that
a fault or failure does not affect the transmission performance of the system.
Source this document
S,B-7 ,ach ;etwor/ ,lement "anager or *bseratory "anager shall proide one interface
which reports alarm and performance monitoring data to an e1ternal system. The
e1act format of this interface shall be agreed between the !urchaser and Supplier
prior to implementation. At a minimum, e1change of AS)&& te1t ia T)!2&! shall be
supported. Source this document
S,B46 The *"S shall proide an oerall ;orthbound interface to an upper leel serice
management system ia an *bDect "anagement Hroup )ommon *bDect Eequest
+ro/er Architecture -.6 (*"H )*E+A -.6) or higher compliant interface. Source
this document
S,B4$ &t shall be possible to access all ;etwor/ ,lement "anagers and *bseratory
"anagers ia a suitably equipped remote terminal or other e1ternal system and
perform all alarm, performance, and configuration management functions,
including monitoring of the submerged plant, in the same manner as if the ;etwor/
,lement "anager or *bseratory "anager were accessed directly. Security
management functions and root leel operating system access shall not be
aailable from remote terminals. Source this document
S,B4( The line monitoring equipment shall enable the status of the submerged plant to be
monitored. Source this document
S,B4- The line monitoring equipment shall be able to be controlled from either Shore
Station (conflict resolution required). Source this document
S,B44 The ?ine "onitoring ,quipment shall be isible to the *bseratory "anagement
System and #"AS. Source this document
S,B40 The ?ine "onitoring ,quipment shall carry out its in-serice measurements without
affecting traffic. Source this document
S,B4> The ?ine "onitoring ,quipment shall autonomously monitor the Segments in
serice and be able to detect any degradation in the submerged plant components.
Source this document
S,B4A The ?ine "onitoring ,quipment shall localiLe faults in the submersible plant to
between two ;odes by means of any actie fiber in the cable. This requirement
shall be met from the Shore Stations. Source this document
S,B45 The design shall allow for phased growth and funding of ;,!TG;,
S,B47 The Terrestrial +ac/haul will be compatible with both &nternet-( and )A;AE&, for
e1ternal connectiity to the &nternet.
S,B06 Coltage limit shall be adDustable plus2minus $6P
S,B0$ )urrent limit shall be adDustable down to $ A.
S,B0( Shore stations shall be capable of coordinating power outputs in order to achiee
system-wide goals, such as minimiLing operating costs
S,B0- The system shall not be restricted to a particular direction of power flow in any
segment
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S,B04 ;odes shall be capable of receiing power from any "C input cable
S,B00 ;odes shall normally connect incoming power to any "C cable at the node
S,B0> The system shall be capable of continued operation (with isolation of the fault if
necessary) despite one fault to ground in the submerged plant.
S,B0A The brea/ in serice when a fault to ground is e1perienced in the Submerged !lant
shall not e1ceed SSSSsecondsSS e1cept for those ;odes directly adDacent to the
fault, and any nodes isolated by the fault.
S,B05 )able or node faults shall not cause damage to connected equipment.
.2. Reliability
The relia#ility goals that shall #e met to allow the System to perform effectively.
SE,$ Eeliability is /ey to low operation costs and user satisfaction. )Source 3 page 67*
SE,( )able faults caused by e1ternal aggression on the submerged plant are currently
estimated to reduce aailability from $ to T6.77 and will be further studied in
!hase (. )Source 3 page 66*
SE,- Baults caused by e1ternal aggression on the submerged plant are the only
e1clusions from calculation of System reliability. )Source this document*.
SE,4 Bault Tolerance % the obseratory has a goal of proiding a sufficient number of
alternatie data paths so that in the case of any single fault (other than a cable
brea/) no connectiity will be lost. )Source 44 page 3*.
SE,0 The System reliability for submerged and dry plant shall be proided, along with
the calculation methodology. )Source this document*.
SE,> The reliability of submerged plant shall be based on a temperature of 0) at the
outside of the pressure case. )Source this document*.
SE,A The leel of unaailable time stated shall include all contributions due to
maintenance of submerged plant and Shore Station equipment, internal causes,
and those requiring action from the terminal stations or ;etwor/ "anagement
Systems. )Source this document*.
SE,5 ;,!TG;, Eeliability Eequirement )Source 47 page 4*.
$.$. The ;,!TG;, system shall hae a better than 70P probability of
meeting all functional requirements for at least 70P of the time oer a
one year period.
$.(. The ;,!TG;, system shall hae a better than 70P probability of
meeting ?imited Aailability or greater requirements for at least 77P of
the time oer a one year period.
$.-. A single ;,!TG;, node shall hae a better than 70P probability of
meeting all functional requirements for at least 77.7P of the time oer
a one year period.
$.4. The probability of System Bailure in any one year shall be less
than 6.$P
$.0. A single ;,!TG;, Shore Station shall hae a better than 70P
probability of meeting all System power requirements for at least
77.7770P of the time oer a one year period. ((.0
minutes2year). &n the eent that the !B, has to be shut down
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for maintenance, any shutdown period shall be included as
downtime in the reliability calculation.
SE,7 The System shall include buffers at the Shore Station to aoid data loss. The
Shore Stations shall be capable of buffering sufficient days of data such that the
System will hae a better than 70P probability of deliering to the archie 77.7P
of the data and metadata that arries at the Shore Station. Source )with
discussion*: ?3@ )p.<7*
SE,$6 The System shall be designed to manage resources so as to aoid oerloading
subsystems such as power and communications. &t shall be able to prioritiLe
actiities to fit within the aailable power and System bandwidth. Source: ?A@
)p.73*
SE,$$ System components shall incorporate protection from lightning stri/es, surges,
magnetic storms, oer currents, oer oltages, stray oltages or other similar
effects. Source: This /ocument
SE,$( Bailure of a laser or any other equipment specific to a particular fiber or pair of
fibers in a ;ode shall not produce failure or significant performance degradation on
another laser and shall affect only one fiber pair. Source: This /ocument
SE,$- Bailure of any part of the Superisory System shall not lead to failure or
impairment in the main transmission paths. Source: This /ocument
.2.( &aintainability
Given that no system is 455D relia#le, define the design requirements that will allow the
System to #e maintained while still #eing effective.
S"A$ The System shall include the ability to locate both shunt faults (conductor faults to
ground), open circuits and fiber faults to within $/m without underwater
interention. )Source this document*
S"A( The submerged plant, including science e1periments, shall be designed to facilitate
routine sericing of instruments using research essels rather than commercial
cable ships. )Source 3 page 66*.
S"A- The probability that all maintenance necessary to meet or e1ceed the reliability
goals each year can be done during the annual -6 day Scheduled System
"aintenance !eriod shall be better than 70P. )Source 47 page 4*.
S"A4 The System shall be designed such that installation, support and recoery of the
Science &nstruments can be underta/en using a )lass $ oceanographic essel for
76 days per year, including mob2demob, during the Jfair weather seasonK of "ay %
*ctober, with E*C support. )Source 3 Section C.6 and 0ppendiE 0*
S"A0 The System shall be designed such that replacement of nodes requiring
maintenance can be underta/en using a )lass $ oceanographic essel for -6 days
per year, including mob2demob, during the Jfair weather seasonK of "ay % *ctober,
with E*C support. )Source 3 Section C.6 and 0ppendiE 0*
S"A> The System shall be designed such that there shall be no part of the submerged
plant that could not be recoered, respliced and redeployed by an G;*?S ship, or,
failing that, by a conentional cable ship. )Source )discussion* 3 Section C.6 and
0ppendiE 0*
S"AA All cable types as selected and laid along the route shall be capable of being
recoered and reused proided that (i) the Short term tension acceptable (;TTS)
alue of the cable type as specified by the manufacturer has not been e1ceeded
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during the recoery operation and (ii) the operations used to recoer the cable are
underta/en in accordance with the Supplier.s approed repair procedures. Source
this document
S"A5 The cables shall be of such design and dimensions that they can be handled by
standard cableship equipment without any modification. Source this document
S"A7 The Submerged !lant including ;odes and +ranching Gnits shall be of such design
and dimensions that they can be handled by standard cableship equipment without
any modification Source this document
S"A$6 Appropriate alarms shall be indicated on the Shore Station terminal equipment, end
of suite display and the networ/ management equipment. Source this document
S"A$$ The alarms proided in the Shore Stations shall allow releant aspects of the
equipment and the traffic signals to be monitored. Source this document
S"A$( The alarms shall be categoriLed into a minimum of two categories8 Uprompt. and
Udeferred. alarms. Source this document
S"A$- The alarm System shall allow independent ac/nowledgment of an alarm condition
at the Shore Station. Source this document
S"A$4 A method shall be proided on the Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment to allow
performance and operation to be measured and a logical fault finding strategy to
be followed. Source this document
.2.) -sability (.uman $actors)
Fualitative and Fuantitative requirements pertaining to the human users of the System
SGS$ The Gser interface shall be as user friendly and as transparent as possible,
particularly for new user populations. Source: ?7@
SGS( The science e1periments supported by ;,!TG;, can be subdiided into two
classes8 those for long-term, community wide science, and those proposed and
deeloped by !riileged Gsers. The System shall support both of these types of
e1periments and users. Source: ?3@ )p.67*
SGS- All community e1periment data are aailable to the public in near real time (after
any necessary automatic quality control). #ata from !& e1periments are handled
per sponsor policy. . )Source 3 page 66*.
SGS4 #"AS shall be able to routinely generate and ma/e easily accessible deried
information products in addition to the scientific raw data products specified by the
research community. These products shall support both public outreach actiities,
and commercial use of ;,!TG;, data. Source: ?3@ )p.=5*
SGS0 #ata management and archiing may be distributed, though to any user it will
appear to be concentrated at a single point. )Source 3 page 66*.
SGS> The #"AS subsystem shall be able to grant priileges to certain !rieledged Gsers,
for specific periods of time. These priileges shall include one or more of the
following8
V Access to proprietary data from a specific list of instruments, for a specific
period of time.
V The ability to control specific instruments or groups of instruments.
V The ability to contribute processed data and catalogue information to the
;,!TG;, archie. Source: A page 77
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SGSA The System shall accommodate eent drien data acquisition, and shall be capable
of detecting eents in real-time data streams (including ideo) and automatically
reconfiguring the system in response to eents. Typical responses might include
increasing sample rates for related data, actiating additional obsering sequences,
etc. Source: ?3@ )p.66, <3*
SGS5 !rieledged Gsers shall be able to access a real-time data flow and real-time
instrument status from any instrument. Source A page 76
SGS7 The #"AS shall hae an A!& that allows other ;,!TG;, systems to retriee #"AS
status, and to control ;,!TG;, instruments. The purpose of this interface is to
allow an obseratory control system to monitor the health and state of the #"AS,
and to allow other systems to send command li/e Jshut down all instruments on
node 1K. The details of the interface are T+#. Source A page 76
SGS$6 The processing time from when a data request is first receied, until the user is
notified that data are ready to be retrieed shall be less that n hours plus m
minutes per megabyte of data requested. Any time needed for data processing
shall be in addition to this time. Source A p 7:
SGS$$ The System shall include a mechanism for !riileged Gsers to submit files such as
processed data files and catalogue files to the archie. The data shall be
catalogued, and aailable to other archie users. Source A page 7:
SGS$( The ;,!TG;, archie shall include a search engine to allow authoriLed users to
access groups of records.
SGS$- The System will support sensor meta-data to be updated based on in-situ
calibrations, new scaling factors or other changes. Gpdated meta-data will be
recorded by #"AS and appended to all subsequent archied data
.2./ Supportability
/efines the inherent characteristics of design and installation that ena#le the effective and
efficient operation, maintenance and support of the System throughout its planned life cycle.
SSG$ )*TS products are preferred to the greatest e1tent practical. Source: ?3@ )p.66*
SSG( The System design, manufacture and installation shall be in accordance with
applicable international standards. )Source 44 page :*
SSG- @here applicable &TG-T, &S*, &,), &,TB, *&B, T"B, &,,,, B)), ), and G? standards
or recommendations e1ist, these shall be used in preference to other standards or
recommendations. )Source 44 page :*
SSG4 ;ational and other standards shall only be used with the prior permission. )Source
this document*
SSG0 All testing actiities are to conform to the requirements of the appropriate
standards noted aboe. )Source this document*
SSG> The archie shall store and delier data in standard formats. @here possible
e1isting formats will be used. Source: ?3@ )p:<, <:*
SSGA The System shall include a long-term archie of selected data produced by
;,!TG;,. !ractical considerations will preent the archiing all data. Bor e1ample,
some ideo data will hae to be discarded, and it may not be necessary to archie
data that is sent to other archie centres (i.e. seismic data). ;,!TG;, policy shall
determine which data will be archied. Source A, page 7:
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SSG5 System operations - The System operations associated with the bac/bone
infrastructure shall be designed to run automatically. The System shall be
designed such that operational requirements such as sensor deployment and
recoery, arying power and bandwidth requirements, can be managed by > full-
time ;,!TG;, personnel with support proiding coerage 5 hours per day, A days
per wee/. )Source 3 Section C.6 and 0ppendiE 0*.
SSG7 #ata management and archiing The #"AS system shall be designed such that
:)2:A of community e1periment data, caring for ;,!TG;,-specific data, routing
particular /inds of data to other data centers (such as &E&S for seismic data), and
assisting scientists performing data JminingK can be performed by four and a half
full time technical staff with support. )Source 3 Section C.6 and 0ppendiE 0*
SSG$6 The System shall be designed such that a dedicated support group of 4 full-time
technical staff can maintain the sensor networ/s, install community e1periments,
and assist on !rieledged Gser e1periments if required. )Source 3 Section C.6 and
0ppendiE 0*
SSG$$ The System shall be designed such that a dedicated support group of - full-time
technical staff can return and repair the nodes recoered each year ready for
deployment the following year. )Source 3 Section C.6 and 0ppendiE 0*
SSG$( The obseratory shall be capable of being operated and managed from a remote
site connected to the &nternet. . )Source 44 page :*.
SSG$- The System shall be designed and spares shall be proided so that any ;ode can
be refurbished or replaced during the System life. All design improements shall
be bac/ward compatible. )Source > This /ocument*
SSG$4 The System shall include sufficient spares, or a contract to proide sufficient
spares, to refurbish any submerged plant including ;odes and +ranching Gnits
during the system life
SSG$0 ;odes and +ranching Gnits shall employ mechanical and electrical designs proen
by a history of similar use or by an appropriate testing program. )Source > This
/ocument*
SSG$> #esign of all submerged plant including ;odes and +ranching Gnits shall include
the installation and recoerability parameters including recoery rates and
allowable loads s sea states. )Source > This /ocument*
SSG$A #esign documentation shall include details of the optical design of the ;odes,
including pump laser configuration, optical gain and noise figure, optical bandwidth,
optical gain equaliLation, and monitoring or loopbac/ paths. )Source > This
/ocument*
SSG$5 The Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment shall proide Superisory access to the
submerged plant. )Source > This /ocument*
SSG$7 #ata transport shall be digitally transparent in all respects )Source > This
/ocument*
SSG(6 ,ach fiber or waelength shall continue to function within its specified performance
in the eent of connection or disconnection of any impedance or digital signal on
any other fiber or waelength input or output ports. )Source > This /ocument*
SSG($ The remoal of a fiber or waelength unit card or H+&) in any transmission path
shall not affect other fibers or waelengths. )Source > This /ocument*
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SSG(( The System shall allow for proision of operating statistics % dataflow, data access,
number of users, equipment performance stats etc
SSG(- The Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment (S?T,) shall collect performance
monitoring information required to assess the segment performance in accordance
with &TG-T Eecommendation H.5(> including ,rrored Seconds, Seerely ,rrored
Seconds, and Gnaailable Seconds. )Source > This /ocument*
SSG(4 The Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment (S?T,) shall collect performance
monitoring information required to assess segment operation and performance
margin, including the line error rate and estimated : alue. )Source > This
/ocument*
SSG(0 All performance monitoring parameters shall be able to be monitored by the
*bseratory "anagement System. )Source > This /ocument*
.2.0 1ransportability2&obility
STE$ System components such as ;odes shall be transportable by road using
conentional truc/s. )Source > This /ocument*
.2.3 $le4ibility
/efines design requirements to allow fleEi#ility of operation and future change
SB?$ The System shall proide a Jplug and playK capability, allowing new instruments
and new types of instruments to be incorporated into the System in such a manner
that ongoing e1periments are not interrupted. Source: ?3@ )p.66*
SB?( The System shall be adaptable to eoling technologies. Source: ?3@ )p.66*
SB?- The System shall be capable of planned and unplanned e1tension after its initial
deployment. Source: ?3@ )p.6<*
SB?4 ;ode Gpgradeability % the ;odes shall be capable of being upgraded incrementally
to newer System and power technologies if they proe appropriate. )Source 44
page 3*.
SB?0 The #"AS shall be designed to Jscale upK, if future growth of the System e1tent, or
instrumentation increases the data rates beyond the predictions. Source A page 7=
SB?> Submarine ?ine Terminal ,quipment capacity upgrades shall be made without
causing outages on the in-serice data traffic. )Source > This /ocument*
.3 Desi5n an% 'onstruction
.3.1 'AD2'A& Re!uirements
.3.2 &aterials6 +rocesses6 an% +arts
.3.3 &ountin5 an% 7abellin5
.3. ,lectroma5netic Ra%iation
.3.( Safety
SSA$ Adequate safeguards shall be used in all equipment to preent personnel from
accessing haLardous oltages, laser light sources and other potentially haLardous
situations. These shall include interloc/s, alarms, warning notices and clear
statements in documentation. Source this document.
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SSA( The Supplier shall place special emphasis on safety issues during all training
courses. Source this document.
SSA- As a minimum, the equipment shall conform to the latest issue of the following
international standards8 &,) >65(0 Safety of ?aser !roductsM &,) >6706 Safety of
&nformation Technology ,quipment. Source this document
SSA4 The System shall be designed to allow node maintenance and repair operations to
meet the applicable safety codes, particularly with respect to power protocols.
SSA0 The System shall be designed to allow installation operations to meet all applicable
safety codes.
SSA> The system shall meet applicable requirements for maintenance and safety in
terms of loc/outs of the power system.
.3.) *nterchan5eability
.3./ 8or9manship
.3.0 1estability
.3.3 ,conomic $easibility
. Documentation2Data
##$. The Supplier shall submit a complete description of the documentation to be
furnished as part of the )ontract. Source this document
##(. #ocumentation shall be proided in the ,nglish language. Source this document.
##-. All measurements and numerical alues are in accordance with the S& units. Source
this document
##4. All final documentation shall be supplied as two sets of paper copies in the ,nglish
language and 0 inch )#-E*"S containing the ,nglish documentation. Source this
document.
##0. ,lectronic files of all documentation shall be proided in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
format, or other format as agreed by the !urchaser. Source this document.
##>. All proisional documents, documents for reiew, and documents containing data
to which the !urchaser may reasonably require access (such as route position lists,
floor plans, etc.) shall be proided in the natie file format. Source this document.
##A. All documents shall be issued in accordance with a document control system which
complies with the requirements of &S* 766$. Source this document
.( 7o5istics
.(.1 &aintenance Re!uirements
?"E$ The System shall include all necessary spares, specialiLed tools and equipment,
and consumable items required oer the commercial life of the system. Source this
document.
?"E( Spares shall include, but not be limited to, spare cable, spare ;odes, spare
branching units, and Shore Station equipment spares. Source this document.
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.(.2 Supply Support
.(.3 1est an% Support ,!uipment
?TS$ Test and support equipment shall include those items deeloped and manufactured
by the Supplier specifically for carrying out tests that are unique to the submarine
System (e.g. ;ode test benches). Source this document.
?TS( The System shall include test and support equipment selected from a list of
recommended test and support equipment prepared by subsystem design groups
and aailable from third parties. Source this document.
.(. +ersonnel an% 1rainin5
?!T$ The Supplier shall plan and delier all the necessary training for the !urchaser.s
personnel so that such personnel will be capable of independently carrying out
engineering, cable Dointing, installation, testing, commissioning, acceptance,
proisioning and maintenance of the System in a competent and efficient manner.
Source this document.
?!T( The Supplier shall offer the following training8 Source this document
a. Bunctional *eriew (Type A)8 *ne session per station
b. #ry !lant *perations (Type +$)8 *ne session per station
c. @et !lant *perations and !owering (Type +()8 *ne session per station
d. *"S *perations (Type +--;*))8 *ne session per station
e. Eemote *perating !osition (Type +--E*!)8 *ne session per station
f. Shipboard )able <ointing (Type ))8 *ptional
g. ?and )able <ointing (Type #)8 *ptional
?!T- The Supplier shall proide a description of each type of training and shall indicate
the ma1imum number of students in each session. Source this document.
?!T4 Training shall be conducted in the ,nglish ?anguage. Source this document.
.(.( $acilities an% ,!uipment
.(.) +ac9a5in56 .an%lin56 Stora5e6 an% 1ransportation
.(./ 'omputer Resources (Soft:are)
.(.0 1echnical Data
.(.3 -ser Services
.) +ro%ucibility
./ *nstallability
&;S$. The Submerged plant from the beach to $066msw shall as much as possible be
suitable for installation using a conentional cable plough.
&;S(. The Submerged plant from $066msw to (666msw shall as much as possible be
suitable for installation using a conentional cable burial E*C.
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&;S-. The System shall be designed such that the submerged plant can be powered and
tested during installation, so that any installation related faults can be recoered
and repaired by the installation essel..
.0 Disposability
.3 Affor%ability
(.0 1est an% ,valuation
T,$ All subsystem design groups shall carry out programs of !rototype Acceptance
Testing (!AT) to demonstrate that all land based and submerged components meet
the design parameters, performance criteria, and quality standards established by
the #esigner.s engineering and design actiities. The #esigner shall demonstrate
that the design parameters, performance criteria, and quality standards for each
component or assembly are consistent with these oerall performance
requirements. Source: This /ocument
T,( :ualification of submersible plant shall include testing complete housing with
penetrations and terminations to $.01 wor/ing pressure Source: This /ocument
T,- All Suppliers shall, with reasonable prior notice, gie full and free access to all
locations relating to the @or/ (including all offices and production facilities for the
@or/ or the ,quipment of the Supplier), for the purposes of ealuating the
Supplier.s :uality Assurance System and confirming the Supplier.s adherence to
that system. Source: This /ocument
T,4 All equipment that forms part of the System shall undergo programs of Bactory
Acceptance Testing (BAT) to demonstrate that all land based and submerged
components meet the design parameters, performance criteria, and quality
standards established by the Supplier.s engineering and design actiities. &t shall
be demonstrated to the !urchaser.s satisfaction that the design parameters,
performance criteria, and quality standards for each component or assembly are
consistent with these oerall performance requirements. Source: This /ocument
T,0 A program of System Assembly and Test shall be carried out to demonstrate that
assembled bloc/s of cable, ;odes, and other submerged components meet the
design parameters, performance criteria, and quality standards established by the
engineering and design actiities. &t shall be demonstrated that the design
parameters, performance criteria, and quality standards for the bloc/ assemblies
are consistent with these oerall performance requirements. Source: This
/ocument
T,> Bollowing the completion of installation of the Shore Station equipment, a program
of &n-Station Testing shall be carried out to demonstrate that installed land-based
equipment meets the design parameters, performance criteria, and quality
standards established by the engineering and design actiities and that the
performance of this equipment is consistent with the performance measured during
BAT. &t shall be demonstrated that the design parameters, performance criteria,
and quality standards for each component or assembly are consistent with these
oerall performance requirements. Source: This /ocument
T,A Bollowing the completion of each Segment, a program of Segment )ommissioning
shall be carried out to demonstrate that Segment performance meets the
requirements. Source: This /ocument
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T,5 Bollowing the completion of the submerged plant, a program of Binal
)ommissioning shall be carried out to demonstrate that System performance meets
the requirements. Source: This /ocument
).0 ;uality Assurance +rovisions
Source this document
:A!$ Suppliers, manufacturers, contractors and subcontractors shall be certified to &S*
7666 in all areas of their organiLations releant to the design, manufacture,
installation and commissioning of the System. The Suppliers, manufacturers,
contractors and subcontractors shall proide controlled copies of their :uality
"anuals to show compliance with all elements of &S* 7666 at the highest leel.
:A!(
:A!- All components proposed for the System shall be fit for intended application and
reasonable eidence shall be presented to demonstrate this fitness including the
releant qualification test reports and any new qualification tests for the equipment
identified in the proDect program.
:A!4 :ualification tests performed on any new equipment shall be conducted in
accordance with a qualification test specification.
:A!0 All equipment used in qualification tests, factory tests, installation and
commissioning tests shall be in calibration, and the releant calibration certificates
shall be aailable for inspection.
:A!> )ontractors and subcontractors shall demonstrate compliance with &S* 7666- -,
Huidelines for the application of &S* 766$ to the #eelopment, Supply and
"aintenance of Software, proiding documentation for any new software
deelopment.
:A!A Suppliers, contractors and subcontractors shall proide notification before
implementation of any product changes, design changes (modifications) etc.,
affecting form, fit, function, safety and reliability.
:A!5 The Supplier, contractors and subcontractors shall employ reasonable efforts to
become compliant with the T? 7666 standard. This standard will replace &S* 7666
for telecommunication suppliers.
/.0 Accessibility an% -ser Service
0.0 ,%ucation an% #utreach
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