$300 million transatlantic cable ‘spliced’ together

bealtine

http://www.mayo.ie/news/300-million-transatlantic-cable-spliced-together/

The $300 million transatlantic cable which connects New York to London via Mayo has been connected in the middle of the Atlantic. Three ships have met in the middle of the Atlantic and the cables have been spliced together, one of the ships is laying the cable from New York, a second in the middle of the Atlantic and the third is laying the cable from the beach off Killala in Mayo.

95381_54_news_hub_90781_656x500The fibre-optic cable, which was brought ashore on Ross Strand in Killala in August is owned and operated by Irish company Aqua Comms and will run directly from Long Island in New York to Ross Strand. The cable is capable of carrying one-third of the world’s voice traffic and all of Europe and the US’ data traffic and is expected to generate a major economic boost for the west of Ireland.

Speaking about the final connection being put in place Aqua Comms chief financial officer Martin Roche said “With the final splice of the subsea portion of AEConnect complete, we stand on the cusp of providing unprecedented transatlantic capacity and reliability connecting New York to London and beyond to greater Europe”, it will have a 53.8 millisecond latency and be capable of handling a third of the world’s phone calls, with over 1.6 million simultaneous Ultra HD video channels, or over 32 million LTE wireless callers.

The cable avoids major fishing grounds and shipping anchorage areas that expose subsea cables to damage

With this latest development Aqua Comms has completed the final splice of its America Europe (AE) Connect subsea fibre optic cable system, which is due to go live on 31 January 2016.

dissed doc

bealtine wrote: »

http://www.mayo.ie/news/300-million-transatlantic-cable-spliced-together/

The $300 million transatlantic cable which connects New York to London via Mayo has been connected in the middle of the Atlantic. Three ships have met in the middle of the Atlantic and the cables have been spliced together, one of the ships is laying the cable from New York, a second in the middle of the Atlantic and the third is laying the cable from the beach off Killala in Mayo.

95381_54_news_hub_90781_656x500The fibre-optic cable, which was brought ashore on Ross Strand in Killala in August is owned and operated by Irish company Aqua Comms and will run directly from Long Island in New York to Ross Strand. The cable is capable of carrying one-third of the world’s voice traffic and all of Europe and the US’ data traffic and is expected to generate a major economic boost for the west of Ireland.

Speaking about the final connection being put in place Aqua Comms chief financial officer Martin Roche said “With the final splice of the subsea portion of AEConnect complete, we stand on the cusp of providing unprecedented transatlantic capacity and reliability connecting New York to London and beyond to greater Europe”, it will have a 53.8 millisecond latency and be capable of handling a third of the world’s phone calls, with over 1.6 million simultaneous Ultra HD video channels, or over 32 million LTE wireless callers.

The cable avoids major fishing grounds and shipping anchorage areas that expose subsea cables to damage

With this latest development Aqua Comms has completed the final splice of its America Europe (AE) Connect subsea fibre optic cable system, which is due to go live on 31 January 2016.

And we get a cut, a levy? Or is it just an advert

oscarBravo

dissed doc wrote: »

And we get a cut, a levy? Or is it just an advert

We get a substantial percentage of transatlantic traffic landing in Ireland instead of skirting around the island. Being connected is good.