TGN Atlantic
Submarine telecommunications cable system
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TGN Atlantic (TGN-A) previously VSNL Transatlantic and TGN Transatlantic, is a submarine telecommunications cable system transiting the Atlantic Ocean. The cable has been in operation since 2001.
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Landing points
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| Total length | 12.935 km[1] |
| Design capacity | 5.12 Tbps[1] |
| Date of first use | 2001[1] |
The cable was operated by the American corporation Tyco International until it was acquired for 130 million US$[2] by India's Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) in 2005. Since 2008 VSNL was rebranded as Tata Communications[3] and the cable was named TGN-A for Tata Global Network Atlantic.[4]
The cable system is constructed from two separate cables routed slightly differently, but both cables terminate in the same locality at each end. Each cable is constructed with 4 fibre pairs per cable, and each fibre pair supports 64 10 Gbit/s waves at construction, allowing for a total lit capacity (at construction) of 2 cables x 4 fibre pairs x 64 10 Gbit/s waves = 5.120 Tbit/s.
It has landing points in:
- Wall Township, New Jersey, United States (two cable landing points)
- Highbridge, Somerset, United Kingdom (two cable landing points)