Danice
Submarine cable connecting Denmark and Iceland
title: "Danice" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["submarine-communications-cables-in-the-north-sea", "submarine-communications-cables-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean", "transatlantic-communications-cables", "denmark–iceland-relations", "2009-establishments-in-denmark", "2009-establishments-in-iceland"] description: "Submarine cable connecting Denmark and Iceland" topic_path: "general/submarine-communications-cables-in-the-north-sea" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danice" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Submarine cable connecting Denmark and Iceland ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Danice_Greenland_Connect_Landeyjarsandur_Iceland.JPG" caption="Landing point in Iceland"] ::
The DANICE submarine communications cable system transits 2250 km of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea to connect Iceland and Denmark. It consists of four fibre pairs, capable of carrying in total up to 36.4 Tbit/s of data using 100Gbit/s coherent wavelength technology available in 2013. The cable went into operation in November 2009 and has had no submarine faults. The operator of the cable is Farice. The complementary cable is FARICE-1. DANICE has cable landing points at:
References
References
- "Charts and Documents {{!}} Farice".
- "Map of DANICE route as of year 2009".
- [http://www.farice.is/network/network-performance/ Farice: The second cable DANICE]
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