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ALPAL-2

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ALPAL-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Algeria and the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca.

It has landing points in:

  1. El Djemila, Algiers, Algeria
  2. Ses Covetes, Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, Spain

It has a design transmission capacity of 160 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 312 km. It started operation in July 2002.

References

  • "www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=18868". Retrieved February 19, 2006.