Apollo (cable system)

Approximate course of the cable

2 Lannion, Brittany, France 3 Brookhaven (New York ), United States 4th Wall (New Jersey ), United States

Apollo is installed by Alcatel in 2003 in the Atlantic submarine cable for data exchange between Europe and North America. Owned by the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, operator is Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd.. , London.

The length of the fiber optic cable is 12,315 km. The system multiplexing (DWDM ) is composed of two cables ( north and south) and is designed for a throughput of up to 3.2 terabits per second. The connection is mainly used for data transmission on the Internet.

Connections

Shore power connections are made in

Nos. 1 and 3 are connected to the North cable, 2 and 4 with the Südkabel.