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 and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls. It was built in 3 segments and the project cost DKK 480m.
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.
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.