Pangea (cable system)

Pangea North and Pangea South
Landing points Pangea North Redcar, England Fanø, Denmark Måde, Denmark Pangea South Lowestoft, England Beverwijk, Netherlands
Total length	937 km[1]
Design capacity	7.2 Tbit/s[2]
Date of first use	2001[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]

• Redcar, England, UK
• Fanø, Denmark

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

• Måde, Denmark

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

• Lowestoft, England, UK
• Beverwijk, Netherlands

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]

Maps

• "Kingfisher Cable Awareness Chart, North Sea Central" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2006. Retrieved November 25, 2006.
• "Kingfisher Cable Awareness Chart, North Sea South" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2006. Retrieved November 25, 2006.

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