Atlantica-1 (cable system)
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| Owners Brasil Telecom |
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| Total length | 22,500 km | ||||||||||||
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| Technology | Fiber optics | ||||||||||||
| Date of first use | 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Decommissioning date | unknown | ||||||||||||
Atlantica-1 (also known as "GlobeNet" and "360americas") is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA, Bermuda, Venezuela, and Brazil. It has a design capacity of 1.28 Tbit/s carried over four fibre pairs; or 640 Gbit/s of fully restorable capacity. Initial restorable capacity was 20 Gbit/s. The cable was initially laid and named by GlobeNet. GlobeNet was subsequently acquired by 360networks who renamed the cable system to "360americas". 360networks has undergone Chapter 11 bankruptcy and severe restructuring. Brasil Telecom bought the cable system in 2003.
The cable system has landing points in:
- Tuckerton, New Jersey, USA
- Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- St David's, Bermuda
- Punta Gorda, Venezuela
- Fortaleza, Brazil
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Note that the segment between Bermuda and New Jersey is built from a previously laid cable system, BUS-1.
