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AC-2

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Yellow / AC-2
Owners:
Lumen
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 asubmarine telecommunications cable systemlinking the United States and the United Kingdom. The cable is wholly owned byLumen(formerlyLevel 3 Communications) in the US following its acquisition ofGlobal Crossing.[1]The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave this cable system different names, so it is known as bothYellow(after the Beatles songYellow Submarine) andAC-2.It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s as of January 2007, upgradeable to 640 Gbit/s.

It haslanding pointsin:

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

References

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  1. ^"AC-2/Yellow".submarinenetworks.Retrieved27 April2021.