The IRIS submarine cable is ready for service (RFS). The cable is Farice’ third submarine cable connecting Iceland with Dublin and will further increase redundancy and resilience in digital communication in the north-west Atlantic. The RFS date is the last milestone and marks the completion of a project that was four years in development. The
Farice has received terrestrial fibres on all routes in Iceland and Ireland to enable the services between Iceland and Dublin. The equipment needed to lit up the cable and create a protection ring between data centres in Iceland and Ireland over the IRIS submarine cable has also been delivered. Final installation work is taking place
The Link to the press release is here 03-Irish Press Release Draft Farice November 2022-FINAL Press Release For release 11 November 2022 Galway to become a gateway to connectivity to Europe Work completed on telecoms cable between Galway and Iceland Farice, (a company fully owned by the Icelandic Government, currently owns, and operates
On August 8th the final splice on IRIS was done west of Ireland (yellow box) and on August 10th the final burial of that section was done. The cable ship CS Durable sailed to Ireland to prepare for the next project. An end to end connectivity has now been established on the cable and testing
On Monday May 23rd SubCom’s cable installation vessel the CS Durable, landed the IRIS Subsea Telecoms Cable System successfully at Thorlakshofn beach in Iceland. The event signifies the commencement of the marine installation of the IRIS cable system that Farice has been developing since 2019. During the summer SubCom’s CS Durable will lay the cable
Tyrone fabrication in Northern Ireland has been selected as the provider of the Cable Landing Stations (CLS) for IRIS. The houses are assembled in-house from scratch. The station for the Thorlakshofn (í. Þorlákshöfn) landing site in Iceland will be shipped to Iceland beginning of March and will be installed 2-3 weeks later on-site. The station
On August 21st survey operations for the IRIS cable system were completed when the survey vessel Ridley Thomas ported at Reykjavík Harbour. Ridley Thomas had spent 12 weeks surveying the second phase of the survey from the Irish EEZ to Iceland’s landing site. Iceland’s landing site was carefully selected, and several of potential options explored
Construction for the extension of IRIS from beach manhole to the cable station in Galway commenced on May 25th. The path is around 2km in length. Ducts for fiber and power cables are now installed.
IRIS will offer increased security, redundancy, wholesale capacity linking Iceland with Ireland Eatontown, NJ, USA and Reykjavik, Iceland – April 5, 2021 – SubCom and Farice ehf today announced that a contract is in force for the supply and installation of IRIS, a new high-speed undersea cable system connecting Iceland and Ireland. Farice is an
The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has today approved a capital increase of an estimated EUR 50 million to Farice, a state-owned provider of international telecommunications services, for the construction of the IRIS submarine cable. Iceland’s telecommunications and internet traffic is currently dependent on two submarine cables – FARICE-1 and DANICE – that connect the country
