Total length 14,000 km Design capacity 40 Gbit/s Technology Fiber optics | Topology unknown Currently lit capacity 120 Gbit/s Date of first use 1999 (1999) | |
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Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-1) is an optical submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA and three European countries. It transports speech and data traffic between the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands and Germany. It is one of several transatlantic communications cables.
It has landing points in:
- Brookhaven Cable Station in Shirley, New York, United States
- Land's End Cable Station in Whitesand Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Westerland Cable Station on Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- KPN Telecom cable station, Beverwijk, North Holland, Netherlands
References
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