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System Configuration
The NFOL system will be a seamless, fiber optic cable system with a design that is more than sufficient to meet the total current requirements of users and provide significant additional capacity to accommodate future demand.
When fully built out it will provide access for the first time to robust broadband capacity for over 150 rural communities, thereby connecting the region’s hospitals, medical clinics, schools, remote university campuses, public safety offices, U.S. Coast Guard communications sites, commerce and industry with real-time telecommunications and internet services.
The Northern Fiber Optic Link (Northern Fiber Link) will extend the Kodiak Kenai Fiber Link system via submarine fiber optic cable from Narrow Cape on Kodiak Island to the Aleutian Islands and Western Alaska with landing points at Unalaska (Dutch Harbor), Cold Bay, Naknek (King Salmon), Dillingham, Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Barrow and Prudhoe Bay (Deadhorse).
The Northern Fiber Link will be configured as follows:
(1) Cable Length: 5713 Km;
(2) Trunk and Branch configuration with 18 segments comprised of 14 repeaterd and 4 non-repeatered segments
(3) Two fiber pairs on each Trunk segment and 4 fiber pairs on each Branch segment,
(4) 11 cable landing stations (CLS); BU4A with fiber stub included for a future landing to service comminities along the Yukon River,
(5) Three Science Node Interfaces along the Trunk for servicing future ocean observatories (BU3, BU4 and BU6 as denoted on the map by the yellow triangles,
(6) Initial Operating Capacity: 52 Wavelengths, each with 10 Gbps data rate, for a capacity of 520 Gbps distributed across the 11 cable landing stations,
(7) Full Operating Capacity: 96 Wavelengths for a capacity of 960 Gbps on each fiber pair, providing a total system capacity of 1.92 Tbps,
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Design Lifetime of System; 25 years.
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