Antilles Crossing

Antilles Crossing is an underwater fiber optics ring network connecting several countries in the Caribbean Sea. It was built by TeleBarbados, and is one of the newer important network connections to the Internet for Caribbean countries in the Windward and Leeward Islands.

The network is being built in 4 phases.

• Phase I (The red phase) links Barbados, to the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
• Phase II (The grey phase) will see the linking of Barbados firstly to Tobago and then onward to Trinidad further south.
• Phase III (The green phase) will see the link from Trinidad traveling Northward to Grenada, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia.
• Phase IV (The blue phase) will see a link extendad from Saint Lucia Northward to Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Kitts and Saint Croix

Stake holders

• Antilles Crossing,
• Barbados Light & Power,
• Ectel,
• Leucadia,
• Network Research[1]

Participant countries

• Barbados (red),
• Grenada (green),
• Guadeloupe (blue),
• Martinique (blue),
• Saint Croix (red),
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (blue),
• Saint Lucia (green),
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (green),
• Trinidad and Tobago (grey),

Facts

• Total length: 940 km[2]

See also

• TeleBarbados

External links

• Official website - Antilles Crossing

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