Far North Fiber One Step Closer to Pan-Arctic Connectivity Far North Fiber plans a route study to define the fastest and most secure route for a Submarine cable system directly connecting Scandinavia, North America, Ireland and Japan through the Arctic region.
Svalbard Subsea Cable Not Operative One out of two subsea fiberoptic connection cables between the Norwegian mainland and Svalbard has been non-operative since Friday.
New Cooperation about Arctic Subsea Fiber Cable After the previous collaboration stranded, resources are now put into a new project that is to lay a subsea fiber cable between North America, Asia, Northern Norway and Finland, this time through the Northwest Passage.
Data centers as critical infrastructure in the Arctic While the role of networks and teleoperators is rather visible, data centers that constitute a backbone of Internet infrastructure are often not mentioned in the coverage of the crisis. Assistant Professor at Oulu University, Alexandra Middleton and Internet Infrastructure Expert at Digital Footprint AS, Bjørn Rønning examines why connectivity in the Arctic is so important.
Arctic Council Agenda Highlights Biodiversity Officials and delegates of the Arctic Council concluded a series of meetings this week hosted by the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland to discuss the progress of work under the Finnish Chairmanship.
