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New POP in Akureyri

By |2023-12-29T11:05:09+00:00December 29th, 2023|News, Press releases, Uncategorized|

Farice Point of Presense (POP) set up in Akureyri In early 2024, Farice is poised to introduce Akureyri as a new point of presence (POP) for its services in Iceland. Farice currently operates three submarine cables—FARICE-1, DANICE, and ÍRIS—providing vital digital connections between Iceland and Europe. Presently, Farice's clientele accesses its network through POPs in

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IRIS is ready for service from March 1st

By |2023-03-16T14:53:28+00:00March 16th, 2023|Iris, News|

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

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IRIS will be ready for service on March 1st.

By |2023-01-25T10:18:58+00:00January 25th, 2023|Iris, News|

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

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Formal handover of IRIS submarine cable by Subcom in a Galway event on Friday November 11th 2022.

By |2022-11-15T10:06:58+00:00November 13th, 2022|Iris, Press releases|

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

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Final splice completed on August 8th

By |2022-08-12T17:00:10+00:00August 12th, 2022|Iris|

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

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Connectivity between Iceland and Japan through new Pan-Arctic Fibre cable

By |2022-07-08T12:20:05+00:00July 8th, 2022|News, Press releases|

Farice and Far North Digital (FND) have signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint marketing and sales agreement for fibre optic connectivity between Japan and Iceland.  Farice’s new IRIS submarine cable will provide connectivity between Iceland and Ireland, and FND’s new Arctic cable spans between Japan and Ireland. The parties have agreed to develop

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FARICE PRESS RELEASE – IRIS CABLE SYSTEM Marine installation began from Iceland on May 23rd

By |2022-05-31T11:31:23+00:00May 31st, 2022|Iris, Press releases|

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

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The Cable station for Thorlákshöfn landing site prepared in factory

By |2022-02-17T15:13:09+00:00February 17th, 2022|Iris|

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

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D9 to invest a further $93 million in Verne Global after buying the company in 2021 for £231 million in cash

By |2022-01-12T15:19:05+00:00January 12th, 2022|News, Uncategorized|

Verne’s campus in Keflavik to reach 40MW. In September 2021 it was announced that D9 had bought Verne Global for £231 million in cash Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9) is to invest an additional $90 million in Icelandic data center firm Verne Global to fund further expansion. D9, managed by Triple Point Investment Management, acquired Verne

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