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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

Counterpoint: place a few hundred thousand wireless repeaters on buoys.

Serious answer: software encryption is a gazillion times cheaper than this. If however freedom from reliance on American infra is the goal, then I stand corrected.

[-] potter2010@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago

I believe the goal is to get away from USA infrastructure. Canada is already looking at building additional internal infrastructure so that domestic traffic never goes south of the border.

All the software encryption in the world is useless if a deranged USA leader gives the order to stop traffic originating/going to Canada.

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

All the software encryption in the world is useless if a deranged USA leader gives the order to stop traffic originating/going to Canada. Tru.

[-] Ozymati 13 points 1 day ago

Don't need to know what's in the traffic to block it. US govt has demonstrated willingness to cut off technology at critical points to try and get what it wants. So yeah I'm thinking it's about infrastructure.

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago

That's like... Iran/China totalitarianism shit. 🤢🤮

[-] DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

Imagine the latency of a few hundred thousand repeaters

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

I'd rather not 🤣

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