Pangea North and Pangea South | |
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Landing points | |
Total length | 937 km [1] |
Design capacity | 7.2 Tbit/s [2] |
Date of first use | 2001 [3] |
Pangea is a submarine telecommunications cable system transiting the North Sea connecting UK with Denmark and Netherlands. By 2002, it was no longer in service. [4] It consisted of two widely separated submarine segments - Pangea North and Pangea South. [3]
Pangea North segment of length 685 km had landing points at: [5]
From Fanø, an island off the coast of Jutland, there was an onwards section to the mainland, landing near Esbjerg at:
Pangea South segment of length 252 km had landing points at: [6]
The cable systems were deployed as a part of a larger effort by the network operator, Pangea Europe Limited, to connect countries in the Nordic region. [7] [8] However, the company already had economic difficulties in September 2001, [9] and bankruptcy was filed in 2002 shortly after Pangea was finished. The cable ownership was transferred first to Arrowhead and Nortel [10] and then to become a part of Linx Telecom (now CITIC Telecom CPC) later in 2004. [11]