unrivaled speed, security, and diversity Linking Asia, North America and Europe through the arctic

SHORTER, FASTER, and More secure

Far North Fiber is a 14,500 km route greatly reducing the optical distance between Japan and Western Europe relative to all other combinations of terrestrial and oceanic fiber plant available today. The route minimizes signal latency to an unrivaled 142 millisecond Round-Trip Delay (RTD).
The high-fiber count cable offers unprecedented transmission capacity, route diversity, and geopolitical stability to the global fiber network.
Far North Fiber will connect hubs of the hyperscale data centre industry, cloud networks, and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems in Asia, North America, and Europe to the low-energy-cost Arctic.
The Far North Fiber system aims to integrate SMART cable technologies, giving advanced new tools to study the oceanography of the most rapidly changing oceans on earth.
Exclusive agreement with supplier Alcatel for turnkey project; system scheduled ready-for-service 2026. Agreements in place with Japanese, Icelandic, Finnish and Irish partners to establish landing rights, backhaul, and permitting services.

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Who WE ARE.

Far North Fiber directly links Europe to Japan by way of a revolutionary route through the Arctic, using proven subsea cable construction techniques and creative system design. The result provides users with faster and more secure connectivity, and delivers broadband to Northern communities and opens opportunities for cleaner data storage development.

“Global digital connectivity is essential to drive future economic growth and coherence between continents. Fast and reliable internet is vital for all parts of modern society, from private use to businesses, governments, and research and education (R&E) institutions—and will be even more so going forward, as digital transformations in society require more robust, more resilient, more performant, and more digital capacity, while also having to reduce the carbon footprint.”

Copenhagen Economics: The Economic Value of Submarine Cables in the Arctic; May 2022