Greenland Connect Fibre Optic Subsea Cable

The two fibre pair Greenland Connect system links Greenland to Iceland and Canada's Newfoundland province. Photos of the cable landing stations below. The first photo is the Icelandic facility with the one below it being the Greenland counterpart. Greenland Connects lands South of Reykjavik and uses the same landing station as the DANICE cable. In Greenland it lands in Nuuk, the country's capital, and also in Qaqortoq. Although the cable began with 2x 10G waves in operation, it has been upgraded to 12.8 Tbps by Alcatel and Hauwei Marine. 

Greenland Connect went live on March 23, 2009. It brought the first terrestrial Internet connectivity to Greenland and slashed RTDs to content delivery points by over 500 milliseconds. Up to that point Greenland had relied solely on geostationary satellites.

I strongly believe that the Far North, which includes Siberia, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the Far Northern parts of the Nordic countries, will experience massive migration and economic growth from now to 2100. More subsea cable construction will follow. Global warming will raise temperatures and increase river flows leading to large increases in hydroelectric generation. Tundra will become forests and forests will become farmland. A good example of this evolution is Iceland. It is experiencing rapid population growth due to immigration with the 2006 population of 304,000 rising to 400,000 in 2026. I expect lots of Far North subsea cable builds to support the growing influx of people looking for economic opportunity and to escape the increasing oppressive heat of lower latitudes. The growing abundance of hydro power as glaciers and ice melt will attract data centres due to cheap around-the-clock power. It is worth noting that Iceland's per capita real GDP is higher than Austria, Hong Kong, and Germany.