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Crosslake Fibre is planning to build a
submarine optic fiber cable from Toronto,
Canada, to Buffalo, New York, passing
through Lake Ontario. It will be the first
submarine cable system across Lake
Ontario to directly connect Toronto and
the United States.
Mike Cunningham, CEOof Crosslake Fibre,
explained: “The cable system will help
fuel the massive and growing demands
for wholesale bandwidth and cloud
connectivity in the Greater Toronto area
and the Buffalo Niagara region.”
The Crosslake cable will have a high
fiber count and will be physically diverse
from other routes between Toronto and
Buffalo whilst also being shorter in length.
The shorter length enables lower latency
connectivity between Toronto and
Buffalo, as well as other markets in the US.
Crosslake will own and operate the system
as an independent operator, offering dark
fiber and managed services to enterprise
and carrier customers and ultra-low
latency services to financial networks.
The targeted completion date for the
cable system is September 2018. “Over
the last seven months we have made
tremendous progress on the key aspects
of the project, including permitting, sales
and financing,” said Cunningham.
Lake crossing cable
wiredInUSA - June 2017
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