The DANICE submarine communications cable system[1] transits 2250 km of the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea to connect Iceland and Denmark.[2] It consists of four fibre pairs, capable of carrying in total up to 36.4 Tbit/s[3] of data using 100Gbit/s coherent wavelength technology available in 2013. The cable went into operation in November 2009 and has had no submarine faults. The operator of the cable is Farice ehf. The complementary cable is FARICE-1. DANICE has cable landing points at:
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- ^ "Charts and Documents | Farice". www.farice.is. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ^ Map of DANICE route as of year 2009
- ^ Farice: The second cable DANICE
External links edit
- "New submarine cable". Invest in Iceland Agency. October 3, 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- "Tyco to build 'Danice' subsea cable". www.yourindustrynews.com. January 14, 2008. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- "FARICE is the main provider of international capacity out of Iceland". Farice. January 9, 2016. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- Hannigan, Martin (2009-02-13). Update on North Atlantic Networks (PDF). UKNOF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-03-14.