ODIN (cable system)
Submarine telecommunications cable system
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ODIN was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
It was 1040 km in length and used Synchronous Digital Hierarchy technology and had two 2.5Gbit/s lines (One active and one redundant) and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls. It was built in 3 segments (Segment 1: Netherlands - Denmark, segment 2: Denmark - Norway, Segment 3: Norway - Sweden[1]) and the project cost DKK 480m (Approx. €64.5m).
It had landing points in:
- Alkmaar, Netherlands
- Måde, Denmark
- Blåbjerg, Denmark
- Kristiansand, Norway
- Lysekil, Sweden
The segment between Måde and Blåbjerg was overland (shown in blue).
ODIN Seg1 is out of service since 1 January 2007.
Segment 3 is out of service since approximately 22 April 2008.[2]
The last segment was taken out of service before January 2009.[3]