wiredInUSA January 2018

The submarine cable through Lake Ontario is the first to connect Toronto and the USA. Photograph courtesy of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

Lake crossing cable

Tiger Infrastructure Partners has invested in Crosslake Fibre, a company established to develop fiber optic cable projects throughout North America, including a new submarine cable from Toronto to Buffalo, through Lake Ontario. The project, announced in May 2017, will be the first submarine cable system across Lake Ontario to directly connect Toronto and the United States. Foreign ownership restrictions in Canada have historically prevented ownership of fiber by non-Canadian carriers. As a result, the Canadian market is dominated by large incumbents who do not typically sell dark fiber. “Crosslake will enable the purchase of new, diverse dark fiber between Canada and the US, allowing carriers to displace leased fiber and add diversity,” said Michael

Cunningham, CEO of Crosslake. “We are excited to partner with Tiger Infrastructure to grow the Crosslake platform.” Crosslake’s Toronto to Buffalo network will have a high fiber count cable and be physically diverse from other routes between Toronto and Buffalo while being shorter in length. The targeted completion date is September 2018. Crosslake Fibre has also announced plans for a submarine system connecting cable landing stations in Wall, New Jersey, to Long Island. Thephysically diversecablewouldaddress growing demand for network connectivity and high capacity bandwidth options.

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