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Total length
  
c. 6,400 km

Design capacity
  
640 Gbit/s

Technology
  
Fiber optics

Topology
  
unknown

Currently lit capacity
  
320 Gbit/s

AC-2

Date of first use
  
November 2000 (2000-11)

Yellow / AC-2 (Atlantic Crossing 2) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA and the UK. The different owners give this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow and AC-2. It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s as of January 2007, upgradeable to 640 Gbit/s.

It has landing points in:

  1. Bellport/Brookhaven, New York, United States
  2. Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdon

References

AC-2 Wikipedia