AC-2 (cable system)
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Yellow / AC-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system
Submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean....

 linking the USA and the UK. The different owners give this cable system different names, so it is known as both 'Yellow' and AC-2. It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s as of January 2007, upgradeable to 640 Gbit/s.

It has landing points
Cable landing point
A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be direct or via a branch from a main cable using a...

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    , New York
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    , USA
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