The ANTARES neutrino telescope is being constructed in the Mediterranean Sea.
It consists of a large three-dimensional array of photo-multiplier tubes. The
data acquisition system of the detector takes care of the digitisation of the
photo-multiplier tube signals, data transport, data filtering, and data
storage. The detector is operated using a control program interfaced with all
elements. The design and the implementation of the data acquisition system are
described.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Nucl. Instrum. Meth.