ATLANTIS-2

Infobox Submarine communications cable
cable_name = ATLANTIS-2 (ATLANTIS II)


owners = Carrier consortium of 25 (including Telintar, Embratel, Sonatel, Cabo Verde Telecom, Telefónica, Marconi, Telecom Italia, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon)
landing_points =

1.	flagicon|Argentina Las Toninas, Argentina
2.	flagicon|Brazil Fortaleza, Brazil
3.	flagicon|Cape Verde Cape Verde
4.	flagicon|Senegal Dakar, Senegal
5.	flagicon|Spain Canary Islands, Spain
6.	flagicon|Portugal Sesimbra, Portugal

technology = Fiber optics
design_capacity = 40 Gb/s
current_capacity = unknown
length = 12,000 km
topology = unknown
first_use_date = 1999

ATLANTIS-2 is a fiber optic transatlantic telephone cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, Canary Islands and Portugal. Embratel, which organized the project, also installed two additional fiber pairs for its exclusive use between Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro. The cable was activated in 1999. It is 13,100 kilometres in length.

Some data about this cable:
# Telecom Argentina is the official network administrator of the Atlantis II Submarine Cable Sistem. Diego S. Rog is the NA.
# It has a capacity of about 19,840 mb/s

The landing points include:

# Las Toninas, Argentina
# Fortaleza, Brazil
# Praia, Cape Verde
# Dakar, Senegal
# Medano, Spain
# Lisbon, Portugal

External links

*http://www.convergedigest.com/Daily/v7/v7n092.htm
*http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/cibles/atls/atlantis2.htm