C-Lion1
Owners:
Cinia Ltd
Landing points
Total length1,173 kilometres (729 mi)
Design capacity120 Tbit/s
Currently lit capacity144 Tbit/s

C-Lion 1 is a submarine communications cable between Finland and Germany. It is the first direct communications cable between Finland and Central Europe. Previous connections have been through Sweden and Denmark. Laying of the cable started in October 2015 and was finished in January 2016. The cable is 1173 kilometres long, has 8 fiber pairs and a total capacity of 144 terabits per second.[1][2][3]

C-Lion 1 has landing points in:

References

  1. ^ von Björn Greif (2016-01-12). "Neues Unterseekabel verbindet Deutschland und Finnland". ZDNet.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  2. ^ Haaramo, Eeva. "Helsinki to Frankfurt in 20 milliseconds: The Baltic cable that's breaking data speed records". ZDNet. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  3. ^ "Submarine Data Cable to Link Germany and Finland". eco. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  4. ^ "Cinia, C-Fiber Hanko team for extension of C-Lion-1 submarine network". www.lightwaveonline.com. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-23.

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Submarine communications cables in the Atlantic Ocean
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