Apollo (cable)

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Apollo
owner Vodafone
operator Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd.
Landing points 1. Bude , UK

2. Lannion , France
3. Shirley , USA
4. Manasquan , USA

overall length 13,000 kilometers
technology Multiplex method (DWDM)
cables two cables
active since 2003

Apollo has been a submarine cable system in the Atlantic since 2003 for the exchange of data between Europe and North America. The company is owned and operated by Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd. based in London , a subsidiary of the telecommunications group Vodafone . The connection is mainly used for data transfers for the Internet .

Apollo was originally a joint venture between the network operator Cable & Wireless (60%) and the technical equipment supplier Alcatel (40%). After Vodafone took over Cable & Wireless, Apollo is now wholly owned by Vodafone.

The DWDM multiplex system consists of two fiber optic routes (north and south), each around 6,500 kilometers in length. The total capacity with four fiber pairs per route was originally designed for a data throughput of 3.2 terabits per second. Thanks to further optimized multiplex processes, 8 terabits per second can now be transmitted over a fiber pair.

In February 2006, Level 3 Communications announced that it had secured a transmission capacity of 300 Gbit / s with the option of a further 300 Gbit / s via Apollo.

Landing points

The landing sites are in:

  1. Bude , Cornwall , UK World icon
  2. Lannion , Brittany , France World icon
  3. Brookhaven / Shirley , New York , USA World icon
  4. Wall Township / Manasquan , New Jersey , USAWorld icon

No. 1 and 3 are connected to the north cable, No. 2 and 4 to the south cable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Application for transfer of Cable Landing License. Federal Communications Commission dated June 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2016. Vodafone Group
  3. ↑ Alcatel-Lucent and Apollo achieve new transmission record for capacity upgrade over more than 6,500km on a transatlantic system. Press release of July 16, 2015
  4. ↑ Level 3 Announces Significant Expansion of Transatlantic Capacity to Meet Growing Demand. ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / investors.level3.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from February 9, 2006
  5. ^ Cable Landing License. Federal Communications Commission dated June 8, 2001