EXA Infrastructure says it has deployed a new high-capacity fiber route connecting four of western Europe’s key network nodes. The connection spans 1,200km between London and Frankfurt, connecting key sites in Amsterdam and Brussels along the way.
In the middle of that, of course, is the crossing of some water. They have done that with a new consortium cable in which EXA is the only telecom participant — presumably the others are hyperscalers and such. The subsea route is 115km and stretches between two new landing stations, one in Margate on the UK side and the other in Ostend in Belgium. That’s through a bit of the North Sea just northeast of the English Channel itself. The subsea fiber utilized G.654C fiber cable.
On land the new route leverages 1,085km of the latest G.652D terrestrial fiber. Existing ILA facilities along the route were upgraded as well. The result is new, modern, scalable infrastructure along two legs of the core FLAP-D infrastructure loops. That sort of upgrade will help EXA meet demand from AI-related growth across the region.
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