In ultra long span optical fiber communication systems with erbium doped fiber amplifiers, degradation of the system performance due to both the fiber dispersion and the nonlinearity becomes dominant. In this paper, optical communication systems with distributed in-line group-delay equalizers are analyzed detailedly, as candidates to solve the problem mentioned above. The computer simulation shows that the system can suppress the four-wave mixing and the accumulation of the interaction between the fiber dispersion and the nonlinearity. Moreover, we propose a practical system, in which the mismatch existing in all the in-line equalizers is compensated by an adjustable equalizer at the receiving end. The tolerance in the adjustment of the parameters of the group delay equalizers and that for the fiber dispersion in the above system are also discussed, which indicates that the system can provide quite a good characteristic more easily than the conventional ways.