HALIFAX – EastLink is partnering with Tele Greenland and Hibernia Atlantic on a new, shorter bandwidth connection between New York and Iceland.
Utilizing the Greenland Connect cable, the facilities of Hibernia Atlantic from Halifax to New York, and EastLink’s network facilities in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, the new route could remove up to 1100 kilometers from the existing route plus provide the lowest latency possible.
Tele Greenland’s Greenland Connect is a cable system connecting Europe and Halifax via Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. The new build will modify the design of Greenland Connect from Landeyajasandur, Iceland to Milton, Newfoundland via Nuuk, Greenland through the deployment of branching units and a new more direct connection between those branching units.
"Eastlink has a high capacity fibre network in place that links Milton, Newfoundland to Halifax, Nova Scotia,” said Eastlink CEO Lee Bragg, in the announcement. “This network gives us the ability to further expand to meet the growth in requirement on this leg of the route."
