Corporate Profile

Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd is a UK based company. Apollo SCS Ltd owns operates and markets the Apollo Submarine Cable System, the most advanced transatlantic fibre optic cable system in operation today.

Running from London to New York and Paris to Washington D.C. Apollo provides two diverse paths connecting the EU and the US. Being the most advanced transatlantic system, Apollo has the highest design capacity of any system in the Atlantic. It is flexible, with high resilience and reliability.

Apollo incorporates multiple fibre pairs throughout its 13,000 km length and provides data transmission at 10Gbit/s through Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). The unique engineering of Apollo allows an ultimate capacity in excess of 3.2 Tbit/s per leg.

Apollo Submarine Cable System Limited is owned by Cable & Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent.