NPF presented at NORDUnet Conference 2024: Spotlight on upcoming Polar Connect Webinar
Lisa Olsson’s lightning talk in Bergen on September 10 reached the audience effectively while offering a spotlight on NPF’s upcoming webinar event. Lisa Olsson, Project Coordinator at Sunet attended the yearly NORDUnet Conference on 10-12 september 2024 in Bergen, Norway. In her lighting talk she promoted the upcoming Polar Connect webinar event for engagement with […]
Attendance at the Submarine Data Cables Conference
The North Pole Fiber Project was presented at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) in Berlin on 2 July 2024. Earlier this summer, the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) in Berlin arranged the conference “Submarine Data Cables – Strengthening the Lifelines of the Digital World”. The invited speakers and panels […]
NPF presented in plenary talk at leading international conference on submarine cable connectivity
For both technical and political reasons, the timing is right for building submarine cables connecting Northern Europe to East Asia through the Arctic Ocean. This was the key message when Erik-Jan Bos, Senior Advisor at NORDUnet, addressed the Submarine Networks EMEA conference in London at the end of May 2024. The conference is the leading […]
SMART Cables: Sensing the Deep Arctic Ocean
The North Pole Fiber project, co-funded by the European Commission under the CEF-2 Digital program, prepares the ground for the global “Polar Connect”. The overall goal is to revolutionize data connectivity between the Europe and East Asia using a fiber optic cable on the shortest possible path. An important part of the project investigates how […]
Kick off meeting January 2024
In January 2024 the first meeting of the North Pole Fiber Project was held in Stockholm, Sweden. The NPF project team from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and NORDUnet came together to discuss and coordinate the work of the project. Magnus Friberg, Senior Advisor and Research engagement at the Swedish […]
