News and BusinessAn international consortium of companies which signed an MoU back in December 2021 to work on the development of a submarine fibre optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic, have set up a joint corporation to move the project forward. Far North Fiber, Inc., brings together Finland’s Cinia Oy, Alaska’s Far North Digital […]
News and BusinessFinnish data network and software solutions company Cinia, and Canadian telecoms and data storage firm Far North Digital, have signed an MoU to build a fibre optic cable system linking Europe and Asia through the Arctic. Alcatel Submarine Networks will take the lead on project design and installation. The planned cable system will run from […]
News and BusinessArctic Connect, the international project is to build the first trans-Arctic submarine fibre cable between Europe and Asia has received a boost with the addition of new partners from Japan, Norway and Finland. Finland-based Cinia Ltd, is leading the project in collaboration with Russian operator MegaFon. New partners include Sojitz Corporation, a multi-national trading and […]
News and BusinessThe melting of the region’s ice is opening up the possibility of constructing a new Arctic subsea fibre cable route. This month, Finland’s Cinia and Russia’s MegaFon signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture to prepare the build of a submarine communications cable across the Arctic Sea. The partners say […]
Applications and ResearchCinia Group, a Finland-based designer, builder, and operator of intelligent connectivity and ICT solutions, and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, now part of Nokia, have successfully completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system demonstrating a record-breaking capacity of 18 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) of data per fibre pair. The confirmed rate of 18 Tbit/s per fibre pair, was […]