wiredInUSA December 2020

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Norway to Denmark cable starts work

Altibox has announced that the 173km Skagenfiber submarine fiber optic cable between Hirtshals (Denmark) and Larvik (Norway) is now in operation. The launch was celebrated with a digital commemoration. “It is gratifying to see that Norway is increasingly equipped with fiber connections, both in andout of the country. Until quite recently, Norway was more like a dead end … on the international fiber cable map,” said district and digitalization minister Linda Hofstad Helleland, during the event.

key European data links, causing delays by both distance and response time and increasing the digital vulnerability. “It is important that more good connections are established between Norway and other countries so that data traffic can [follow] alternative roads if one or more connections are breached, either due to physical breaches as a result of accidents, or deliberate attacks,” said TPO vice president Toril Nag of Lyse, the industrial group that owns Altibox.

Skagenfiber is part of a European fiber network that Altibox is establishing.

Until recently, most international data traffic has traveled via Sweden and on to

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