AC-2

Yellow / AC-2
Owners: Global Crossing/CenturyLink
Landing points 1. Bellport / Brookhaven, New York 3. Bude, Cornwall
Total length	c. 6,400 km
Topology	unknown
Design capacity	640 Gbit/s
Currently lit capacity	320 Gbit/s
Technology	Fiber optics
Date of first use	November 2000 (2000-11)

Yellow / AC-2 (Atlantic Crossing 2) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United States and the United Kingdom. The cable is wholly owned by CenturyLink (formerly Level 3 Communications) in the US following its acquisition of Global Crossing.^[1] The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow (after the Beatles song Yellow Submarine) and AC-2. It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s as of January 2007, upgradeable to 640 Gbit/s.

It has landing points in:

1. Bellport/Brookhaven, New York, United States
2. Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom

References

• "Transoceanic Services". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved January 16, 2007.
• "Level 3 International Connectivity" (PDF). Retrieved May 4, 2012.

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