The first transatlantic submarine cable system, TAT-1, went into service on 25 September 1956. From then on, there have been the TAT series of transatlantic submarine cable systems, until the latest one TAT-14.
The TAT-8 was the first transatlantic fiber-optic submarine cable, constructed in 1988, connecting the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The TAT-8 cable system contained two working fiber pairs and one fiber pair reserved as a spare. The signal on each optical fiber was modulated at 295.6 Mbit/s (carrying 20 Mbit/s of traffic).
Currently, most of the TAT series of submarine cable systems have been out of service, except for the TAT-14.
List of transatlantic cables connecting Amercia and Europe.
System | Year (RFS) |
Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-1) | 1998 |
Columbus III | 1999 |
Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-2) | 2000 |
Yellow /AC-2 | 2000 |
TAT-14 | 2001 |
Flag Atlantic 1 (FA-1) | 2001 |
GTT Atlantic | 2001 |
TGN Atlantic | 2001 |
Apollo | 2003 |
GTT Express | 2015 |
AEC-1 | 2016 |
MAREA | 2018 |
AEC-2/Havfrue | 2020 |
Dunant | 2021 |
Grace Hopper | 2022 |
Amitié | 2022 |