ECFS (cable system)

ECFS (cable system)

ECFS or "EAST CARIBBEAN FIBRE SYSTEM" links 14 eastern Caribbean islands on a repeaterless fibre optical submarine communications cable.

The cable is 1730km in length and runs from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad.

Installed in 1995, it is owned by Cable & Wireless, France Telecom, AT&T.


=Landing points:=

#Tortola, British Virgin Islands
#Anguilla
#St. Martin
#St. Kitts & Nevis
#Antigua
#Montserrat
#Guadeloupe
#Dominica
#Martinique
#St. Lucia
#Barbados
#St. Vincent
#Grenada
#Trinidad

References

* [http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/cibles/car/ecfs.htm Alcatel - ECFS profile]


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