Atlantis-2

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Atlantis II
Cable type Fiber optic cable
owner international consortium with approx. 25 companies
Landing points 1. Las Toninas , Argentina

2. Fortaleza , Brazil
3. Praia , Cape Verde
4. Dakar , Senegal
5. El Médano , Canary Islands, Spain
6. Lisbon , Portugal
7. Conil , Spain

overall length 12,000 km
speed 40 Gbit / s (2009)
active since 1999

Atlantis-2 is a transatlantic fiber optic telecommunications cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands and Portugal. It is the first undersea cable to connect Latin America and the African continent and the only undersea cable to directly connect Latin America and Europe.

The Atlantis 2 project is supported by a consortium of 25 international companies, including primarily Embratel, Telintar, Telefonica de Argentina, Telecom Argentina, STET-France Telecom, DTAG, Telecom Italia (also Sonatel, Cabo Verde Telecom, Telefonica, Marconi , France Telecom, Belgacom, CAT, DACOM, Korea Telecom, Polish Telecom, SingTel, Sprint, Swisscom, Telefonica Larga Distancia Puerto Rico, Telefonica Mundo, Teleglobe USA, VSNL, Worldcom). The total cost was $ 370 million, and Embratel invested $ 100 million .

The cable was ready for service in February 2000 with a capacity of 40 Gbps. Atlantis-2 is considered old and congested and unsuitable for Internet traffic. Therefore, the submarine cable is only used for the transmission of conventional telephone calls.

It is approximately 12,000 kilometers long. The landing points are:

Web links

  • ATLANTIS-2 Greg's cable map (English; overview map of all overseas cables)
  • Atlantis-2 Submarine Cable Map, TeleGeography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b References Atlantis-2 (part) ( Memento of December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Alcatel-Lucent.com
  2. ↑ Spilios Makris (June 9, 2010). " Atlantis-2: Some Facts" . ieee-cqr.org. Telcordia. p. 9.
  3. ↑ Feasibility Study for a direct Europe Link with Latin America ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. (Grant Agreement Number 283396) SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAM. September 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ella-int.eu
  4. ↑ a b SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (CAE-02-011) EC B Fabianek @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / new-archive.dante.net
  5. ^ Pan, Hui (May 2000). "News Network" Submarine Fiber Optics Communications Systems Monthly 8 (5) (Boston: Information Gatekeeper Inc). pp. 9-10. ISSN  1070-096X .
  6. ↑ A submarine cable between Brazil and Europe Der Bund, February 24, 2014