Failure rate

"hnaser" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:24:16 -0400
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Greeting,

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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.

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Thank you. =20

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Hassan Naser, Ph.D.

University of Ottawa
School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE)
800 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5=20
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2123
Fax: (613) 562-5664
Email: [email protected] <mailto:hnaser@s>=20



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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.</span></font></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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