Columbus III

COLUMBUS III is a 9900 km transatlantic telecommunications cable. It has 90 repeaters. In service since 1999, it is owned by over 30 carriers.

After a 2009 upgrade, the capacity of the system was increased to 160 Gbit/s initially. The upgraded system can accommodate up to 320 Gbit/s with potential to grow further.^[1]^[2]

It has landing points in:

References

ICPC Cable database

Transatlantic communications cables

TAT series	TAT-1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12/13 14 CANTAT-1 2 3 PTAT-1

Private non-TAT	Gemini Apollo AC-1 Yellow/AC-2 FLAG Atlantic VSNL Transatlantic Hibernia Atlantic

Other	SAT-2 SAT-3/WASC/SAFE Atlantis-2 Columbus III Eulalink

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