title: ODIN (cable system)
text: # ODIN (cable system)
  
  ODIN was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
  
  It was 1040 km in length and used Synchronous Digital Hierarchy technology and had two 2.5Gbit/s lines (One active and one redundant) and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls. It was built in 3 segments (Segment 1: Netherlands - Denmark, segment 2: Denmark - Norway, Segment 3: Norway - Sweden) and the project cost DKK 480m (Approx. €64.5m).
  
  It had landing points in:
  
  * Alkmaar, Netherlands
  * Måde, Denmark
  * Blåbjerg, Denmark
  * Kristiansand, Norway
  * Lysekil, Sweden
  
  The segment between Måde and Blåbjerg was overland (shown in blue).
  
  ODIN Seg1 is out of service since 1 January 2007.
  
  Segment 3 is out of service since approximately 22 April 2008.
  
  The last segment was taken out of service before January 2009.
  
  