Englandcable to be RFS by 2021
.jpg)
Work has officially commenced on the 700km Englandcable connecting Norway with the UK.
Owned by a consortium made up of Ryfylke IKS, Green Mountain, Lyse, Haugaland Kraft and Hatteland, of NO-UK Com, the new system will land in Green Mountain’s data centre facility in RennesØy, Rogaland.
On the UK side, Newcastle has been chosen as its landing point, will facilities to be built to bring the cable ashore. The system will then have forward fibre connectivity to Ireland and the US.
The new system has been designed with 8 fibre-pairs with an initial capacity of 1x400Gbps although it has been designed to offer a total of 240TBps.
In terms of timeline, the project was officially launched this quarter with permitting and the marine survey due for Q1/Q2 of 2020. After this permitting and manufacturing dry & wet in next, due Q3-Q4. Installation is expected to be completed by Q1-Q2 2021 with RFS set for Q4 2021.
In a LinkedIn post, Ketil Barkved, CEO of NO-UK Com said, “The cable will offer the fastest, direct route open cable between the Nordics and UK/Ireland/US and offer unprecedented opportunities for companies looking to access the vast 100% green electric energy in this region. Ready for service Q3 2021, dark fiber and shared capacity/spectrum will be among the products offered = a range of opportunities for new establishments in the region. In combination with Euroconnect1 from Altibox, the 2 cable systems connect the dots in Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden directly to Norway.”
NO-UK Com delivers connectivity to the UK and US from Norway through dark fibre, subsea and spectrum assets. On its website, its vision is described as delivering ‘high-quality dark fibre connections enabling the establishment of large data centres in Norway. The data centres should consume green hydropower produced in the region and enable Norway to become part of a global edge/core data network by 2020.‘
source capacitymedia
Industry: Data Centre / Telecommunications
Latest Jobs
-
- Lead CyberArk deployment Consultant
- London
- Upto £80,000 plus benefits
-
CyberArk Consultant is needed to be responsible for leading the deployment of CyberArk solutions for this expanding IT services business, You will work with customer both pre and post sales, getting involved in CyberArk Solution Design, helping to create CyberArk Strategic Roadmaps, on-boarding accounts, product and process integration into the CyberArk Solution and Proviso of Installation and technical Documentation. We are looking for this individual to have experience in: Installation of CyberArk PAS for V11.X and V12.X (Vault, DR Vault, Central Policy Manager and Password Vault Web Access) Upgrade of CyberArk from V9 and V10 (Vault, DR Vault, Central Policy Manager and Password Vault Web Access) Installation and Upgrade of Privilege Session Manager and Privilege Session Manager Proxy As some of your client will be government site, all individual will need to be put through SC clearance, therefore you must be eligible to receive this and happy to be put through(With a British Citizen or to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years) We are unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this opportunity
-
- Senior Business Analyst - Outside IR35 Contract, SC Clearance Required, London
- London
- £400 per day outside IR35
-
Senior Business Analyst - Outside IR35 Contract, SC Clearance Required, Based in London Project- to engage with colleagues and stakeholders to investigate and model business functions, processes, information flows and data structures, using a range of business analysis techniques. • You will translate the solution to the business problem into detailed requirements by creating user stories and well-defined acceptance criteria. • Elicit end-to-end business requirements for a live cross-government service • Working across the Government departments to bring together varied business and operational outcomes to form a holistic overall set of service requirements Current SC clearance is required. As is the ability to travel to London.
-
- DV cleared CCP Senior IA Architect Contract. 12 month Outside IR35
- N/A
- 600 per day Outside IR35
-
DV cleared CCP Senior IA Architect Contract. 12 month Outside IR35. £600 MOD experience (Secure by Design, Accreditation, management) / CADMID project life cycle. Working within and across programmes across Land, Air and Fleet. Meng / Ceng. Ability to travel where as and where needed across the M3 / M4 corridor
-
- Illumio Engineer - CONTRACT. EUROPE
- Sweden
- N/A
-
Engineer with hands on Illumio needed for 6 month contract. Ideally based in Sweden, but would consider the right individual to deliver a hybrid role (Occasional travel to Sweden will be required). Connecting services in Illumio, rollout of the agents (VEN). Experience with Illumio Core, endpoint, cloudsecure Looking to start ASAP