High capacity US to Europe Apollo Submarine Cable System – two high capacity transatlantic cables from the USA to Europe 13,000 km of excellence Fast, reliable and secure communications Apollo was ready for service in February Apollo offers point-to-point 10Gbit/s and have a marked impact on both our business 2003, and the deployment of 100G 100Gbit/s wavelengths between the and social lives, with our reliance on this coherent technology has significantly major cities and carrier PoPs (Point of being felt, mainly when we have an outage. increased the available capacity on the Presence) on the East Coast of the US and Undersea fibre optic cables connect most Apollo system to be 8 Tbps per fibre pair on Western Europe, but lower capacities are of the world’s people, businesses and both the northern and southern segments. also available, if needed. institutions. Lying on ocean floors, these Apollo is one of the high capacity Atlantic The Apollo submarine cable system is submarine cable systems carry the vast system cables and has an unparalleled 100% owned by Vodafone, which is one majority of our international track record of reliability. of the world’s leading telecommunications communications and data. Together, they Apollo’s list of customers include the world’s groups, with a significant presence in the form the backbone for the data centres leading telecommunications and internet Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa powering the World Wide Web. This is the companies, and the number of companies and Asia Pacific through the company’s safest, fastest and most reliable form of taking advantage of Apollo’s first-class subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, providing communications in the world. network architecture continues to grow. associated undertakings and investments. Apollo is a 13,000 km optical submarine communications cable system crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Vodafone’s Apollo submarine cable system consists of two advanced transatlantic fibre optic cables. Apollo North connects the United Kingdom and the USA while Apollo South directly connects France and the USA. Data Sheet: Apollo Submarine Cable System America and Europe – seamlessly Colocation at Apollo’s landing connected stations With two separate submarine legs Apollo There are a number of reasons for the Apollo’s landing stations are highly has a fully diverse topology providing exceptional performance history of the specified telecom buildings, all newly discrete routing. Additionally, the unique Apollo submarine cable system, including: built at the time of the company’s creation. position of Apollo’s southern leg provides • Apollo was built to the highest They provide first class space, power, variety from the more congested routes specifications using leading edge security and first line support and are well between London and New York, enhancing installation techniques provided with backhaul networks. choice and security. • The strongest cable design in existence, A number of customers have used Apollo This architecture was implemented to Special Purpose Double Armour cable, landing stations to install their own support Apollo’s customers in the was deployed in the areas where the network equipment enabling them to creation of their very high availability risk of cable break was considered the manage their own terrestrial backhaul. networks. Apollo operates four cable highest Both the EIG and Glo1 cable systems stations in three countries, one in the share the Apollo North UK Cable Station. United Kingdom, one in France and two in • Due to the initial high capacity design and excellent fault history, Apollo is well This allows seamless, economic and the United States. This design maximises efficient interconnection between cable the route separation of the Apollo placed to take advantage of the new technology as it becomes available systems thereby avoiding unnecessary submarine cable system, giving Apollo’s backhaul cost, latency and risk. customers the security of full diversity. The Apollo cable can effortlessly extend capacity from Europe, Africa and Asia to North America. City Location Transatlantic twin cables Why Vodafone Carrier Services? Washington • 2100 M Street We can deliver to a number of European Global reach and scale DC • Equinix Ashburn carrier hotels on the Vodafone European • Over 1 million km of network network, including Frankfurt, Amsterdam etc. including terrestrial and undersea New York • 111/8th Avenue NY • 800 international PoPs across • 60 Hudson Street Apollo is wholly dedicated to providing • 165 Halsey, New Jersey transatlantic wavelength products: 150 countries • 10Gbit/s SDH, WAN PHY and LAN PHY • Partnerships with all the top tier Paris • Telehouse 1/2/3 services carriers • SFR Netcenter • 100GigE and OTU-4 services • Capacity on 83 cable systems, • Equinix PA2/3 including 25 major international Access Points: • Interxion 1/5 submarine cables • Global Switch • City POP to City POP • Cable Station access and co-location London • Telehouse West • Equinix LD5 Apollo makes capacity available to • Equinix LD8 customers through a variety of • Global Switch commercial models, such as: • Digital Realty • Leases • Capitalised Leases Dublin • Equinix DB1 (WIP) • IRU Amsterdam • Equinix 3 • Equinix 7 Next steps • Geesinkweg To discover more about how Vodafone • Digital Realty Apollo Submarine Cable System can Frankfurt • Equinix 5 grow your business and extend your • Interxion reach please contact your Account Manager or get in touch at: Marseille • IX1 [email protected] The future is exciting. 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