VSNL CANTAT-3 Optical Submarine Cable
Dear Colleagues: I've had multiple conversations with operators concerning the status of CANTAT-3, a submarine cable that runs from Pennant Point , Halifax, Canada, to the area of Sylt, DE and branches to locations along the route: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/CANTAT-3-route.png 1. Pennant Point , Nova Scotia Canada 2. Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland 3. Tjørnuvík, Faroe Islands 4. Red car, England, UK 5. Blaabjerg, Denmark 6. Sylt, Germany Does anyone have formal or published indication from VSNL that confirms a decommissioning and states an actual date? I've heard this from several highly reliable sources and I'd like to find out "when" if at all. I have checked Google. I'd be very happy to receive any information formally, off line, or otherwise and summarize back to the list. Best, Marty
Hibernia Atlantic is planning to build a cable from Ireland to Iceland to attack the data centre opportunity that cheap geothermal and hydro Icelandic power presents. http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/8607-IcelandPR-JSAFinal.pdf -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Martin Hannigan Sent: Tue 12/18/2007 6:22 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: VSNL CANTAT-3 Optical Submarine Cable Dear Colleagues: I've had multiple conversations with operators concerning the status of CANTAT-3, a submarine cable that runs from Pennant Point , Halifax, Canada, to the area of Sylt, DE and branches to locations along the route: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/CANTAT-3-route.png 1. Pennant Point , Nova Scotia Canada 2. Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland 3. Tjørnuvík, Faroe Islands 4. Red car, England, UK 5. Blaabjerg, Denmark 6. Sylt, Germany Does anyone have formal or published indication from VSNL that confirms a decommissioning and states an actual date? I've heard this from several highly reliable sources and I'd like to find out "when" if at all. I have checked Google. I'd be very happy to receive any information formally, off line, or otherwise and summarize back to the list. Best, Marty
On Dec 18, 2007 5:01 AM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
Hibernia Atlantic is planning to build a cable from Ireland to Iceland to attack the data centre opportunity that cheap geothermal and hydro Icelandic power presents.
http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/8607-IcelandPR-JSAFinal.pdf
Hi Rod, thanks. How about VSNL CANTAT-3? Any idea what's going on here? -M<
On Dec 18, 2007 8:11 AM, Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org> wrote:
How about VSNL CANTAT-3? Any idea what's going on here?
Its a very old cable which I'm sure must have passed its service life by now. It was frequenty affected by issues near iceland. (trawlers IIRC etc).
It's just approaching 15 years old and I think for '94 that this is the expected lifespan. In January of '06 there was a major outage on Cantat-3 that took a very long time to repair. This is why most people can even recall the name. Check the nanog archives if you are interested in the discussion that took place here. There is a major fishing ground north of the cantat route off of Iceland and south of Hornsfjordur , but the cable does not run through it as far as I know, a little to East, and the "big" outage was situated in the North Sea, southwest of Bergen, Norway. I'm not sure about other outages. I have found some interesting stuff in some NOC archives though. Best, Martin
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote:
There is a major fishing ground north of the cantat route off of Iceland and south of Hornsfjordur
That is an understatement. I have fished in this area and was astounded. Here was the process: 1. Drop a heavy-gauge line in the water with three large unbaited hooks spaced about one meter apart. 2. Immediately pull the line from the water. 3. Remove three fish (usually cod). 4. Repeat until you are bored. No wonder the Icelanders fight wars over their fishing grounds. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_war) Matt
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