Atlantis-2

ATLANTIS-2 is a fiber optic transatlantic telecommunications cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, Spain's Canary Islands and Portugal. It is the first submarine cable to link Latin America and the African continent.

This article is about the transatlantic telecommunications cable. For the computer adventure game, see Atlantis II.
ATLANTIS-2 (ATLANTIS II)
Owners:
Carrier consortium of 25
(including Telintar, Embratel, Sonatel, Cabo Verde Telecom, Telefónica, Marconi, Telecom Italia, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon)
Landing points
Total length12,000 km
TopologyTrunk and Branch
Design capacity160 Gbit/s
Currently lit capacity40 Gbit/s
TechnologyFiber optics DWM
Date of first useMay 10 2000 (May 10 2000)

The Atlantis 2 project total cost was US$370 million invest by a 25 international carrier consortium led technically and financially by Embratel with more than US$100 million of the investment.

Embratel, which organized the project, also installed two additional fiber pairs of 40Gbit/s for its exclusive use between Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro.[1]

The cable was ready for service in February 2000 with a launch capacity of 40Gbit/s. On May 10, to celebrate the definitive start-up of that operation, a videoconference between Fernando Henrique Cardoso (President of Brazil) and António Guterres (Prime Minister of Portugal) was held to demonstrate the new link.

It is approximately 12,000 kilometers in length.

It can already be upgraded with current technology to 160Gbit/s[2]

The landing points include:

  1. Las Toninas, Argentina
  2. Fortaleza, Brazil
  3. Praia, Cape Verde
  4. Dakar, Senegal
  5. El Médano, Canary Islands, Spain
  6. Lisbon, Portugal

Sources

Pan, Hui (May 2000). "News Network" (PDF). Submarine Fiber Optics Communications Systems Monthly. 8 (5). Boston: Information Gatekeeper Inc. pp. 9–10. ISSN 1070-096X.

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References
  1. "Atlantis 2 Cable (40 Gbps) Enters Service Between South America and Europe". convergedigest.com. 'Converge! Network Digest'. May 2000. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27.
  2. Spilios_Makris (June 9, 2010). "Atlantis-2: Some Facts" (PDF). ieee-cqr.org. Telcordia. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25.

See also

List of international submarine communications cables

Individual cable systems off the west coast of Africa include:

  • ACE
  • GLO-1
  • Main One
  • SAT-2
  • SAT-3/WASC
  • WACS
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