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19 January 2012 | Angela Partington
The race is on to connect Europe and Asia by the shortest possible geographic route across the Arctic, as both Polarnet Project and Arctic Fibre move towards implementing their plans for subsea cable systems.
The Russian company Polarnet Project has announced a tender for the supply of the Russian Trans Arctic Submarine Cable System (ROTACS). This is a 17,000km trans-Arctic subsea cable system connecting London and Tokyo, which aims to shorten latency between Europe and...
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