Power control monitoring system for underwater cable communications systems

A power control monitoring system for monitoring a power feed for a cable communications system including n cable landing stations, where n is an integer, and power feed cables connecting the n cable landing stations, said power control monitoring system comprising:

• network means, provided separately from said power feed cables, for connecting m cable landing stations among said n cable landing stations to each other by communications lines, where m is an integer equal to or smaller than n;
• sender/receiver means, provided in each of the m cable landing stations, for transferring information concerning the power feed associated with the m cable landing stations via said network means;
• and
• control and output means, provided in each of the m cable landing stations, for gathering and outputting the information concerning the power feed associated with the m cable landing stations and outputting said information so that said information is simultaneously output in the m cable landing stations.