Danice Explained

The DANICE submarine communications cable system^[1] transits 2250 km of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea to connect Iceland and Denmark.^[2] It consists of four fibre pairs, capable of carrying in total up to 36.4 Tbit/s^[3] of data using 100Gbit/s coherent wavelength technology available in 2013. The cable went into operation in November 2009 and has had no submarine faults. The operator of the cable is Farice. The complementary cable is FARICE-1. DANICE has cable landing points at:

• Landeyjarsandur, Iceland
• Blaabjerg, Denmark.

See also

• FARICE-1
• Greenland Connect
• CANTAT-3

External links

• News: New submarine cable . October 3, 2007 . Invest in Iceland Agency . 2008-07-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080916223448/http://www.invest.is/news/352/default.aspx . 2008-09-16 .
• News: Tyco to build ‘Danice’ subsea cable. January 14, 2008. www.yourindustrynews.com. 2008-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110718143746/http://www.yourindustrynews.com/blog/?p=62. July 18, 2011. dead.
• News: FARICE is the main provider of international capacity out of Iceland. January 9, 2016. Farice. 2015-08-07.
• Martin. Hannigan. 2009-02-13. Update on North Atlantic Networks. UKNOF. http://www.uknof.org/. 2009-03-14. 2009-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20090320173656/http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof12/Hanningan-Undersea.pdf. dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charts and Documents Farice. www.farice.is. 2016-03-04.
2. http://www.farice.is/media/ljosmyndir/DANICE-route-2009.jpg Map of DANICE route as of year 2009
3. http://www.farice.is/network/network-performance/ Farice: The second cable DANICE