Hibernia Atlantic

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Hibernia Atlantic is a Transatlantic submarine communications cable system in the North Atlantic Ocean which connects Canada, the United States, Ireland and England.

It was originally built by 360networks in 1999-2000, placed in receivership in 2001, then purchased in 2003. It is now owned and operated by CVC Acquisition Company Limited

It is a Tycom designed Terawave DWDM system transporting 10Gb/s SDH/SONET/WAN-PHY/LAN-PHY signals and is capable of 40Gb/s transport due to its short span across the Atlantic (Similar path to the original TransAtlantic cables of the 1850's)

It has landing points in:

• Herring Cove, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
• Southport, Lancashire, UK

As at the year-end of 2004 it had a transmission capacity of 320 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of 12,200 km. It is capable of being upgraded to a capacity of 5,120 Gbit/s. It started operation on 8 April 2001.

[edit] External links

• Hibernia Atlantic. Retrieved on February 12, 2006.
• 360networks. Retrieved on February 12, 2006.

[edit] Sources

• http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/hibernia/Files/hibernia.pdf. Retrieved on February 12, 2006.
• History of Nova Scotia with special attention given to Communications and Transportation (cite for Herring Cove landing point). Retrieved on November 29, 2006.
• $80,000,000 fibre-optic site opens in Herring Cove 360networks station has far-flung connections (cite for Hospital Point, Herring Cove landing point). Retrieved on November 29, 2006.