Pangea (cable system)

Pangea North and Pangea South
Landing points
Total length937 km[1]
Design capacity7.2 Tbit/s[2]
Date of first use2001[3]

Pangea is a submarine telecommunications cable system transiting the North Sea connecting UK with Denmark and Netherlands. By 2002, it was no longer in service.[4] It consisted of two widely separated submarine segments - Pangea North and Pangea South.[3]

Pangea North segment of length 685 km had landing points at:[5]

From Fanø, an island off the coast of Jutland, there was an onwards section to the mainland, landing near Esbjerg at:

Pangea South segment of length 252 km had landing points at:[6]

The cable systems were deployed as a part of a larger effort by the network operator, Pangea Europe Limited, to connect countries in the Nordic region.[7][8] However, the company already had economic difficulties in September 2001,[9] and bankruptcy was filed in 2002 shortly after Pangea was finished. The cable ownership was transferred first to Arrowhead and Nortel[10] and then to become a part of Linx Telecom (now CITIC Telecom CPC) later in 2004.[11]

  1. ^ "History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications - Cable Timeline: 1951-2000".
  2. ^ "Pangea Spans North Sea". 2000-09-06. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  3. ^ a b Pangea links North Sea with fiber-cable system, Lightwave Magazine February 1, 2001
  4. ^ "www.submarinecablemap.com Github issue: Esbjerg as landing point of North Sea Connect and Pangea North". 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  5. ^ "Pangea North on Greg's Cable Map".
  6. ^ "Pangea South on Greg's Cable Map".
  7. ^ "Pangea Launches Nordic Network". 2000-12-07. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  8. ^ "Viatel, Pangea complete undersea links". 2000-11-30. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  9. ^ "Fiber optic network operator Pangea in receivership". 2001-09-27. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  10. ^ "Arrowhead Buys Pangea Assets". 2002-07-11. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  11. ^ "Linx Links the Baltics". 2004-03-25. Retrieved 2018-05-07.