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N0R5KE FIBRE AS

Build - Invest - Own - Operate - Long Haul FiberNetworks

N0r5ke Fibre is a Norwegian digital infrastructure company, founded by Norwegian entrepreneurs Anders and Bjørn Vik.
N0r5ke Fibre build, own and operate long haul fiber infrastructure between major Norwegian cities, data centres and communication hubs. As a neutral and independent company we lease out dark fiber on equal terms to operators and customers needing their own physical fiber routes. Our aim is to make dark fiber as available as possible to a wide customer base via both OPEX-type leasing and long-term IRUs.
The backbone fibre build-out is financed and originated through N0r5ke Fibre.

N0r5ke Viking

Subsea cable

N0R5KE Viking is our 810Km subsea cable between Bergen and Trondheim, with a crosslink between Molde and Åndalsnes. The 192-fibre-cable is the only direct link between these cities, fully independent from existing fiber routes – thus provide much needed diversity for this region abundant with cheap hydropower and land. It connect Western Norway’s main business centres, Data Centres, communication hubs. N0r5ke Viking is a valuable data-transport link as several new international subsea cables have been built to connect Norway directly to the US, UK, Ireland and Denmark with low latency connections to large IXs.
N0r5ke Viking is operational since December 2022.

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N0r5ke Viking arriving Trondheim

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EXPANDING N0R5KE VIKING INTO A 2’500KM DARK FIBER RING

Subsea and Terrestrial cables

Phase 2: Expand our dark fiber network with a 950 km subsea cable between Bergen and Oslo, and a 700 km terrestrial fiber cable between Oslo and Trondheim – creating a 2’500 km dark fiber ring. Both new cables will contain min. 192 fibres.

Connect all international subsea fiber routes to/from Norway

Connect large established data centers in Norway

Enable green data center expansion in new regions where green power production is abundant and el. prices lowest in Europe

Significantly improve redundancy and availability of dark fiber in Norway

Redundant connectivity to main cities, connectivity hubs, cable landing sites and regions, providing easy accessibility for International customers

Services

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Dark Fiber

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ILA Shelters

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Product Enhancements

N0R5KE Fibre´s main goal is to attract data traffic (compute, storage, etc.) to Norway by making dark fibre available to international and domestic customers. Customers may install their own transmission equipment or lease from us. Our fibre-cables connect to purpose-built shelters every 80-100kms with available power and rack-space for optical equioment. Dark fiber OPEX-type lease agreements with annual payments and longer IRUs (15years ->) are available for full network lengths as well as for bespoke stretches between centres. N0R5KE Fibre is responsibility for the long-term maintenance and fault-repair of the network and have SLAs in place with experienced local suppliers.

ILA shelters will be available throughout our network including power supply, reserve power and HVAC equipment (heating, ventilation and air conditioning). From these shelters, connections will be available to local, regional, national and international fiber networks

N0R5KE Fibre is working closely with leading network technology companies to ensure the best possible security and product solutions in our shelters.

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