Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

Both the Dutch government and municipalities have banned data centre building in Amsterdam as well as power upgrades for existing facilities. The initial data centre ban was lifted several years ago, but stringent energy efficiency standards have deterred subsequent building and created an image of a city hostile to business. On top of that, the municipality is denying power upgrades. For example, the only way to get incremental power right now at AM5, arguably the single best peering point in the city, is to get vacated or novated space. A client of mine asked for space there, but Equinix replied that power was maxed out and authorities had frozen the total power available to AM5 at the current level. Some local observers argue these moratoriums largely reflect infrastructure neglect in areas like transmission, but I suspect at least in part it is an attempt to appease the Dutch public over power rates. The current Dutch government qualifies as very right wing populist with a host of ...

Type of Cable System: Repeated Two-Core Fibre Pairs With Coherent Optics  Consortium Members: Independent Operator. Construction Status: Design and Fund Raising Stage.  Number of Fibre Pairs: 48.  Number of Cores Per Fibre: 2. Estimated RFS: 1st or 2nd quarter 2027. Day One Aggregate Throughput: 13 Pbps.  Salient Features: 48 Pair repeatered cable directly linking UK, Norway, Demark, Germany, and Netherlands. Every fibre optic path is direct and involves no third country transit. Each fibre pair strand has two optical cores instead of the standard one.  Supplier: NEC. Only NEC offers multicore fibre strands and 48 pair repeaters.  I interviewed today one of the project's founders, Eckhard Bruckshen. The IOEMA cable is designed to reduce the dependence of European telecommunications traffic on the Denmark bottleneck as the map below illustrates. Today Denmark is the primary telecom bridge between the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, and Finland (also the ...