DETERMINATION OF A MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION DISTANCE FOR HETEROGENEOUS TYPES OF OPTICAL FIBRE

摘要

A method, for determining a maximum transmission distance (Dmax) for an optical link comprising heterogeneous types of optical fibre segments, comprising: for a type of optical fibre present in said optical link: - retrieve a maximum transmission reach (Mi), - determine along said optical link, a length (xi) of optical fibre of said type, to reach a distance (D), - normalize said length (xi), by multiplying said length (xi) by a weight (?i) function of said maximum transmission reach (Mi), - sum said normalized lengths for a plurality of types of optical fibre, - determine the maximum transmission distance (Dmax) of the optical link as the distance (D) for which said sum equals a given threshold.