ODIN (cable system)

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ODIN is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

It is 1040km in length and uses Synchronous Digital Hierarchy technology and has two 2.5Gbit/s lines (One active and one redundant) and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls. It was built in 3 segments and the project cost DKK 480m (Approx. €64.5m).

It has landing points in:

  1. Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  2. Måde, Denmark
  3. Blåbjerg, Denmark
  4. Kristiansand, Norway
  5. Lysekil, Sweden

The segment between Måde and Blåbjerg is overland (shown in blue).

ODIN Seg1 is out of service since 01.01.2007.

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