Orange announced that it will collaborate on Google’s Dunant project, which will connect the US to the French Atlantic coast via a 6,600 km submarine cable. The operator will build and operate the landing station on the French Atlantic coast and provide the backhaul service to Paris. Dunant is expected to be completed in late 2020, becoming the first new submarine cable linking the US to France in more than fifteen years.
In July, TE SubCom said that it had secured the contract to design, manufacture and lay the four fibre pair cable. As the French landing partner, Orange will benefit from fibre-pairs with a capacity of more than 30 Tbps per pair. This will help the operator meet growing demand across one of the busiest routes on the internet, with a need for connectivity that increases by a factor of two every two years.
