AC-2

For other uses of "AC2", see AC2.

Yellow / AC-2

Owners: Level 3 Communications
Landing points 1. Bellport / Brookhaven, New York 3. Bude, UK
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 USA and the UK. The different owners give this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow 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:

Bellport/Brookhaven, New York, USA
Bude, UK

References

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

Transatlantic communications cables

TAT series	TAT-1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12/13 14 CANTAT-1 2 3 PTAT-1

Private non-TAT	Gemini Apollo AC-1 Yellow/AC-2 FLAG Atlantic VSNL Transatlantic Hibernia Atlantic

Other	SAT-2 SAT-3/WASC/SAFE Atlantis-2 Columbus III Eulalink

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