Bulk Fiber and WFN Strategies start study for 'Leif Erikson' 100% green energy-run cable from Norway to Canada

News Broadband Norway 11 OKT 2021
Bulk Fiber and WFN Strategies start study for 'Leif Erikson' 100% green energy-run cable from Norway to Canada

Norwegian company Bulk Fiber Networks and US consultancy WFN Strategies have announced a feasibility study for the Leif Erikson Cable System linking Norway with Canada. The 4,200 km submarine line would connect Stavanger to Goose Bay, with plans to extend the system terrestrially to Montreal. It would be the first trans-Atlantic cable powered with 100 percent renewable energy.

Bulk Infrastructure owns and operates more than 10,000 km of international and intra-Nordic subsea and terrestrial fibre networks, including four live subsea fibre systems, one under construction, and now the Leif Erikson system at the planning stage. WFN Strategies will be the project planner, designer and implementer. At its Norwegian end, the cable system will connect to the Nordic region's data centre sector.

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