Written by Andrew Wooden for Telecoms.com
The IOEMA Project will see a new high-capacity data backbone deployed across the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway, and promises more capacity and redundancy in Northern Europe.
The high-capacity, 1400 km repeatered submarine fibre optic project was announced at the Submarine Networks EMEA Conference in London this week, and it promises to support ‘critical infrastructure security with full armouring and burial’ as it links the five Northern European countries.
It will be the first submarine fibre optic cable landing on the North Sea shores of Germany in over 25 years, we’re told, and after decommissioning of TAT-14, SEA-ME-WE 3 and others, it will also be the only cable system connecting Germany to the submarine cable networks in the North Sea and beyond. The 48-fibre pair system promises a minimum overall capacity of 1.3 Pb/s.
