ODIN (cable system)

ODIN was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

It was 1040 km in length and used Synchronous Digital Hierarchy technology and had two 2.5Gbit/s lines (One active and one redundant) and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls. It was built in 3 segments (Segment 1: Netherlands - Denmark, segment 2: Denmark - Norway, Segment 3: Norway - Sweden¹) and the project cost DKK 480m (Approx. €64.5m).

It had landing points in:

The segment between Måde and Blåbjerg was overland (shown in blue).

ODIN Seg1 is out of service since 1 January 2007.

Segment 3 is out of service since approximately 22 April 2008.²

The last segment was taken out of service before January 2009.³

References

Study of Unrepeatered Submarine Fiber Optic System, p. 190, at Google Books
http://sjofartsverket.se/upload/Ufs/2008/Nr%20205.pdf, Notice to Mariners #250, 2008-04-23, The Swedish Maritime Administration
Recovery of more than 500 km Outfaced Cable in the North Sea Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, JD-Contractor A/S, January 2009 press release on cable recovery contract.

External links

"Tele Danmark to take part in international cable project". Retrieved February 5, 2006.

[1] Study of Unrepeatered Submarine Fiber Optic System, p. 190, at Google Books

[2] ttp://sjofartsverket.se/upload/Ufs/2008/Nr%20205.pdf, Notice to Mariners #250, 2008-04-23, The Swedish Maritime Administration

[3] Recovery of more than 500 km Outfaced Cable in the North Sea Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, JD-Contractor A/S, January 2009 press release on cable recovery contract.

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