Super Highway Dublin to London
Including Subsea Cable Rockabill
Super Highway Dublin to London
Delivering over 1,000 km of state-of-the-art critical fibre infrastructure across the UK and Ireland, including the 224 km Rockabill subsea cable.
This Super Highway’s unique routing, new amplification stations, and new ultra low-loss fibre provides a modern alternative to other fibre systems in the region.
Key Features
Best in class low-loss fibre types deliver consistent, high performance in both the terrestrial and subsea sections.
All amplification sites are newly built and designed with sustainability in mind. The ILA and cable landing sites (CLS) sites are built with highly efficient, modern cooling equipment that significantly reduces long-run power demands.
This enables a much lower power consumption per bit and an optimised lower carbon footprint, delivering greater efficiency benefits to our customers.
With unique route options from Manchester to London, including diversity that connects to data centres in Leeds, or bypasses it entirely to avoid regional congestion and other routes in the area.
Our Central London bypass allows Dublin to Amsterdam connectivity avoiding London congestion.
Deploying New Network Infrastructure at Pace
This Super Highway was rapidly delivered in a 9 month construction, serving customers from November 2019.
Over 1,000 kilometres of high fibre count cable
340 new chambers and 239 new fibre joints
2 new cable landing stations
4 new ILA/PoP sites
Just as impressive as the rapid physical construction of this Super Highway was the management and timing of its logistical and administrative elements.
From the bureaucratic requirements of multiple countries, governments, local authorities and permitting authorities, to organising the specialist vessels and equipment required for a subsea and terrestrial system.
This delivery combined the experience of our project management team with our community of expert construction partners to deliver a new state-of-the-art fibre system in 9 months.
Super Highway Insights
An Innovative Subsea Cable Burial that Delivers Unique Benefits
Our subsea cable Scylla was laid using micro-routing – following sand wave contours on the sea bed to provide a deeper, more secure burial that naturally increases over time.
A Network that Supports Pioneering Research for the Future of Communication
Our Super Highway subsea cable Rockabill was used as the location for cutting-edge quantum communication research across the Irish Sea.
New, Unique Routes Connecting Key European Cities
We design uniqueness and diversity into our Super Highways, addressing the demand for new fibre connectivity between cities and data centres across Europe.
Re-imagining Long Haul Network Design
Our Super Highways aren’t constrained by the limitations of legacy fibre types. This gives us the ability to re-think how a long haul route is best designed.