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:
Alkmaar, Netherlands Måde, Denmark Blåbjerg, Denmark Kristiansand, Norway 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.http://sjofartsverket.se/upload/Ufs/2008/Nr%20205.pdf, Notice to Mariners #250, 2008-04-23, The Swedish Maritime Administration
The last segment was taken out of service before January 2009.Recovery of more than 500 km Outfaced Cable in the North Sea , JD-Contractor A/S, January 2009 press release on cable recovery contract.
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