Tangerine (cable system)
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Tangerine is a submarine telecommunications cable system
segment crossing the English Channel
linking the United Kingdom and Belgium.
It has landing points
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The cable contains four fibre bundles, each of 48 fibres, and a total cable length of 121 km.
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....
segment crossing the English Channel
English Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
linking the United Kingdom and Belgium.
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...
in:
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, West Flanders, BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
The cable contains four fibre bundles, each of 48 fibres, and a total cable length of 121 km.