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:


 * 1) Alkmaar, Netherlands
 * 2) Måde, Denmark
 * 3) Blåbjerg, Denmark
 * 4) Kristiansand, Norway
 * 5) 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.