title: ALPAL-2
text: ALPAL-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Algeria and the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca.
  
  It has landing points in:
  El Djemila, Algiers, Algeria
  Ses Covetes, Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, Spain
  
  It has a design transmission capacity of 160 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 312 km.  It started operation in July 2002.
  
  References
   
  
  Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
  Algeria–Spain relations
  2002 establishments in Algeria
  2002 establishments in Spain