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Optical submarine communications cable system
Apollo
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Owners:
Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd
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Landing points
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Total length
| 13,000 km
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Topology
| Two fully diverse paths
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Design capacity
| over 3.2 Tbit/s per Leg
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Currently lit capacity
| unknown
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Technology
| Fibre Optic DWDM
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Date of first use
| early 2003
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2003
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Apollo
is an
optical
submarine communications cable
system crossing the
Atlantic Ocean
, owned by Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd (a joint venture between
Cable & Wireless Worldwide
and
Alcatel
).
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It consists of 2 segments North and South, creating two fully diverse transatlantic paths.
In early 2006,
Level 3 Communications
announced its purchase of 300 Gbit/s of capacity between Apollo North and Apollo South with an option to purchase up 300 Gbit/s of future capacity. This acquisition gives Level 3 a transatlantic path that does not pass through either London or New York City, which is desirable to carriers due to network diversity concerns. This purchase represents the single largest transaction of sub-sea capacity in history without laying new cable.
Principal access points
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Apollo has principal access points at the following locations:
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- United States
- United Kingdom
- France
Security breach
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In February 2018,
The Sunday Times
reported that the infrastructure for the UK landing site of the Apollo,
GLO-1
and
Europe India Gateway
cables had been found almost entirely unprotected. Their reporter was able to reach the premises without being challenged, and found the door to the generator room unlocked and left ajar.
Vodafone
, who manage the facility, said that he had not reached critical equipment and "would not have been able to interrupt the operation of the facility."
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References
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External links
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