Altibox Carrier Launches Verena – A New Strategic Subsea Cable Strengthening Digital Resilience Between the UK and Denmark
November 19, 2025 630-kilometer system connecting Scarborough, UK and Esbjerg, DK to be ready-for-service in Q4 2028. Altibox Carrier today announced Verena, a new 630-kilometer subsea cable system designed to dramatically increase capacity and resilience between the UK and Denmark, responding to rapidly growing Nordic data traffic and rising international demand for secure, high-quality routes across […]
Altibox Carrier Appoints Luke Fox as Chief Commercial Officer to Accelerate Hyperscale Network Expansion
Stavanger, Norway – November 17, 2025 Altibox Carrier, a leading Nordic provider of high-capacity fibre infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Luke Fox as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). This strategic hire marks a pivotal step in the company’s mission to expand its cutting-edge terrestrial and subsea hyperscale network infrastructure across the region. Luke […]
Altibox Carrier Achieves World’s First 1.6 Tb/s Submarine Cable with Ciena
Altibox Carrier has demonstrated the world’s first 1.6 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission on an in-service subsea cable, using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics on the company’s NO-UK system. Stavanger, Norway — September 9, 2025 The live 1.6 Tb/s channel ran error-free on Altibox Carrier’s production network between Norway and the UK, proving that […]
Lyse and HitecVision Join Forces to Build Nordic Fiber Network
Lyse welcomes HitecVision as a co-owner of Altibox Carrier with a shared goal: to build the leading Nordic platform for high-speed fiber infrastructure serving the data center industry. 8 July 2025 Altibox Carrier currently owns and operates several strategic fiber routes between Norway and Europe, including the subsea cables NO-UK and Skagenfiber, as well as […]
Altibox Carrier Nominated for Prestigious Global Connectivity Award
Altibox Carrier, the only Nordic company to do so, has been nominated for the “Project of the Year” award at the Global Connectivity Awards in London. 28 August 2024 This nomination highlights Altibox Carrier’s excellence, as the company has successfully advanced through the initial stage, where 362 companies were considered for various awards to be […]
New Norwegian fibre highway brings Europe closer
Altibox Carrier has just completed an important upgrade of the Norwegian fibre backbone: A new path from Rennesøy and Green Mountain data centre in Stavanger in the shortest possible route to Bulk and Ulven Stack EMEA in Oslo. – The new path will provide new diversity and significantly lower latency distributing data between Norway and […]
Setting New Records With 800G
Altibox Carrier Deploys 800G WaveLogic
NO-UK SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM ACHIEVES RECORD-BREAKING 800GB/S LINE RATE WITH CIENA
The opening of the new Skagenfiber sea cable between Norway and Denmark was digitally celebrated on the 4th. of November 2020. STAVANGER, Norway, and HANOVER, Md., U.S.A – February 7, 2022 NO-UK, the state-of-the-art submarine cable system between Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), has achieved a record-breaking 800Gb/s line rate using Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme, powered […]
Skagenfiber ready for service
The opening of the new Skagenfiber sea cable between Norway and Denmark was digitally celebrated on the 4th. of November 2020. – This new cable will provide increased national data security and makes Norway an even more attractive location for establishing data centres, said Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation, Linda Hofstad Helleland. The Skagenfiber […]
