AC-2

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Yellow / AC-2
AC-2-route.png
Owners:
Global Crossing/CenturyLink
Landing points
Total lengthc. 6,400 km
Topologyunknown
Design capacity640 Gbit/s
Currently lit capacity320 Gbit/s
TechnologyFiber optics
Date of first useNovember 2000 (2000-11)

Yellow / AC-2 (Atlantic Crossing 2) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United States and the United Kingdom. The cable is wholly owned by CenturyLink (formerly Level 3 Communications) in the US following its acquisition of Global Crossing.[1] The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave 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 Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ "AC-2/Yellow". submarinenetworks. Retrieved 27 April 2021.


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