TAT-14
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| TAT-14 | |
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| Owner(s) | Carriers consortium |
| Cable landing point>Landing points | Blaabjerg (Denmark),
Norden (Germany),
Katwijk (Netherlands), St. Valéry (France), Bude-Haven (UK), Tuckerton (US), Manasquan (US). |
| Total length | 15,428 km |
| Topology | Self-healing ring |
| Designy capacity | |
| Currently lit capacity | 640 Gbit/s |
| Technology | Fiber optics with EDFA repeaters |
| Date of first use | |
| Decommissioning date | |
TAT-14 is the 14th consortia transatlantic telephone cable system. In operation from 2001 it utilises wavelength division multiplexing to carry 64 x STM-64 protected circuits between the USA and the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands. Germany and Denmark in a ring topology.
By the time this cable went into operation, the expected long boom (term coined by Wired magazine) was already ending in the dot-com death. The overinvestment in transcontinental optical fiber capacity led to a financial crisis in private cable operators like Global Crossing.
Cable Failure
In November, 2003, TAT-14 suffered two breaks within weeks of each other. This resulted in disruption to Internet services in the United Kingdom.
External link:
- https://www.tat-14.com
- [Cable Failure Hits UK Internet Traffic] - Article by ZDNet on the failure
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