wiredInUSA June 2017

Lake crossing cable

Crosslake Fibre is planning to build a submarine optic fiber cable from Toronto, Canada, to Buffalo, New York, passing through Lake Ontario. It will be the first submarine cable system across Lake Ontario to directly connect Toronto and the United States. Mike Cunningham, CEOof Crosslake Fibre, explained: “The cable system will help fuel the massive and growing demands for wholesale bandwidth and cloud connectivity in the Greater Toronto area and the Buffalo Niagara region.” The Crosslake cable will have a high fiber count and will be physically diverse from other routes between Toronto and

Buffalo whilst also being shorter in length. The shorter length enables lower latency connectivity between Toronto and Buffalo, as well as other markets in the US. Crosslake will own and operate the system as an independent operator, offering dark fiber and managed services to enterprise and carrier customers and ultra-low latency services to financial networks. The targeted completion date for the cable system is September 2018. “Over the last seven months we have made tremendous progress on the key aspects of the project, including permitting, sales and financing,” said Cunningham.

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wiredInUSA - June 2017