Meta Files Aurora Cable License for Denmark

Georgia Butler, Data Center Dynamics
August 21, 2026

Meta Platforms has filed for a U.S. cable landing license for Aurora, a planned transatlantic subsea system connecting New Jersey and Denmark. The August 17 application was submitted through Meta subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings USA and remains pending with the Federal Communications Commission.

The proposed 7,268-kilometer system would link existing landing facilities in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Blaabjerg, Denmark. NJFX owns the New Jersey station, while Arelion owns the Danish facility. Aurora is designed with 24 fiber pairs, each rated at 20.7 Tbps, for total design capacity of about 497 Tbps. The filing does not specify how much capacity would be lit when service begins.

Aurora would operate as an open cable system, allowing separate fiber owners to manage their own submarine line terminating equipment. Edge USA also indicated that dark fiber could be offered in the secondary market, potentially widening access to the route beyond Meta's internal requirements.

The company is targeting January 15, 2028, for service and has asked the FCC to grant the license by November 2026 to support that schedule. In its application, Edge USA said the system would add capacity on a growing transatlantic corridor, improve the resilience of its subsea network, and increase facilities-based competition between the United States, Denmark, and connected markets.

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