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==TAT cable routes== The TAT series of cables constitute a large percentage of all North Atlantic cables. All TAT cables are joint ventures between a number of [[telecommunications]] companies, e.g. [[British Telecom]]. CANTAT cables terminate in Canada rather than in the US. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Name!!In service!!Type!!Initial channels!!Final channels!!Western end!!Eastern end |- |[[TAT-1]]||1956β1978||Galvanic||36||51||[[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]||[[Scotland]] |- |[[TAT-2]]||1959β1982||Galvanic||48||72||[[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]||[[France]] |- |[[TAT-3]]||1963β1986||Galvanic||138||276||[[New Jersey]]||[[England]] |- |[[TAT-4]]||1965β1987||Galvanic||138||345||[[New Jersey]]||France |- |[[TAT-5]]||1970β1993||Galvanic||845||2,112||[[Rhode Island]]||[[Spain]] |- |[[TAT-6]]||1976β1994||Galvanic||4,000||10,000||[[Rhode Island]]||France |- |[[TAT-7]]||1978β1994||Galvanic||4,000||10,500||[[New Jersey]]||[[England]] |- |[[TAT-8]]||1988β2002||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]]||40,000||β||[[New Jersey]]||[[England]], France |- |[[TAT-9]]||1992β2004||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |80,000||β||[[New Jersey]], [[Nova Scotia]]||Spain, France, [[England]] |- |[[TAT-10]]||1992β2003||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |2 Γ 565 Mbit/s||β||US||Germany, Netherlands |- |[[TAT-11]]||1993β2003||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |2 Γ 565 Mbit/s||β||[[New Jersey]]||France |- |[[TAT-12/13]]||1996β2008||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |12 Γ 2.5 Gbit/s||β||US Γ 2||England, France |- |[[TAT-14]]||2001β2020||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |3.2 Tbit/s||β||[[New Jersey]] Γ 2||England, France, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark |- |[[CANTAT-1]]||1961β1986||Galvanic||80||β||[[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]||Scotland |- |[[CANTAT-2]]||1974β1992||Galvanic||1,840||β||[[Nova Scotia]]||England |- |[[CANTAT-3]]||1994β2010||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |2 Γ 2.5 Gbit/s||||[[Nova Scotia]]||[[Iceland]], [[Faroe Islands]], England, Denmark, Germany |- |[[PTAT-1]]||1989β2004||[[Optical fiber|Fiber-optic]] |3 Γ 140 Mbit/s?||||[[New Jersey]] & [[Bermuda]]||Ireland & England |}
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