Aqua Comms Announces Completion Of Its Next-Generation Subsea Cable System
America Europe Connect set to provide secure, low latency and high capacity connectivity from New York to Dublin, London, and beyond to greater Europe.
Aqua Comms Limited (Aqua Comms) has announced that it has completed the final splice of its America Europe Connect (AEConnect) subsea fiber optic cable system completing the marine segment. Scheduled to be ready for service by January 31, 2016. AEConnect spans more than 5,536 km across the Atlantic with strategically placed stubbed branching units to facilitate future extensions of the system. The system provides secure, low latency, high capacity connectivity from New York to Dublin, London, and beyond to greater Europe.
Envisioned to revolutionize connectivity between North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, Aqua Comms’ AEConnect is one of the first subsea cables constructed between New York City and London in nearly 15 years. Featuring the latest technology of 130 Gbps x 100 Gbps per fiber pair, it is specifically designed to meet the growing bandwidth requirements demands of global data centers, carriers, cloud-based networks, financial services market participants and content providers. With more than 52 Tbps of available capacity, the 100G-compliant system will utilize innovative optical technologies to provide the most advanced subsea system, combined with a control plane based on a software-defined networking (SDN) technology to serve bandwidth-intensive applications.