Altibox Opened New Fibre Cable Between Norway and Denmark By BODØPOSTEN.NO November 5, 2020 A new 173-kilometre fibre cable between Hirtshals and Larvik is now in operation. The opening of the fibre cable "Skagenfiber" was celebrated on Wednesday morning with a digital commemoration attended by, among others, The Minister of District and Digitalisation Linda Hofstad [...]
Seabed Survey for NO-UK Submarine Cable Completed Altibox Carrier Press Release August 19, 2020 The NO-UK submarine cable project, connecting Newcastle to the Norwegian landing point at Rennesøy, has reached a new milestone. Several weeks of seabed survey in the North Sea is now finalized and the project is on track for completion in 2021. [...]
Fugro Helps Xtera Finalise High-Speed Fibre-Optic Cable Route Between Norway and UK The Fugro Galaxy (pictured) is supporting Fugro’s offshore activities on their pre-installation and route engineering survey project for Xtera Fugro Press Release August 3, 2020 Bremen, GERMANY - Fugro has begun a pre-installation and route engineering survey project to support their [...]
Bulk Infrastructure Secures Telia Carrier on New Secure Fiber Route From Norway Bulk Infrastructure Press Release July 14, 2020 The Norwegian Communications Authority has chosen Telia Carriers after a tender process to secure diversity for electronic communication between Norway and abroad. Telia Carrier is awarded the contract based on Bulk Infrastructure’s new secure route from [...]
Nordic Capacity Outlook By Dag Aanensen May 18, 2020 The Covid-19 has radically changed the data traffic profile in the Nordics. During mid-March most Nordic countries required private, businesses and governments employees to work remotely from home. Schools shutdown and students were sent home to follow remote learning programs. This created an overnight need for [...]
SubSea Networks Supports NO-UK in New Subsea Cable Build Between Stavanger and Newcastle SubSea Networks Press Release February 24, 2020 Penzance, UK and Stavanger, Norway – SubSea Networks Limited, a leading provider of subsea consultancy services, and NO-UK announced today that, after a focused period of collective teamwork which addressed all aspects of technical and [...]
Construction Launch of Submarine Fibre Cable Between Norway and UK Altibox and Xtera Press Release February 21, 2020 Altibox Carrier and Xtera announced today that they had started construction of a new repeater-based cable system between Norway and UK. Xtera is a provider of novel subsea fibre optic solutions. With a capacity of up to [...]
Nordic Outlook By Dag Aanensen January 19, 2020 The Nordics is becoming a prominent player in the datacenter market. Thanks to its role as a power hub for Europe, low temperatures, easiness of doing business and political and economic stability the Nordics is providing the ideal climate to build new datacenters. Several new submarine fiber [...]
Nokia Press Release January 17, 2018 Statoil and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have signed a contract for the delivery of a permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) system on the Johan Sverdrup field, one of the five biggest oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. With 380 kilometers of seismic cables installed on the seabed and more [...]
By Eva Eriksen, ScandAsia.com October 19, 2017 Finland and Russia are discussing the creation of a trans-Arctic fiber-optic data cable that would connect Finland, Norway and Russia with Japan and China, the Independent Barents Observer reported. Finland’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Anne Berner, reportedly brought up the possible Arctic data link in a Tuesday [...]