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The Brexit-1 Fiber Cable – NYC to Marseilles

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With one AWS and 2 Azure data-centers coming to France (one of the Azure one is supposed to be in the "south of France"), this would probably help reducing the latency and increasing bandwidth between those data-centers and the US ones.

Apart from the name which I have a hard time to believe, (is it just a joke attempt from the post author?), the part I find interesting is, according to [1], this would be the first cable between France and the USA. I can see "FLAG Atlantic-1" and "Apollo", but those seem to have endpoints in both France and the UK. There is however already cables between the USA and European union countries, such as MAREA

[1] http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/country/france

> Fourthly, this will be a truly diverse path and one that is just perfect.

Surely this article is some kind of satire that's over my head...

I don't believe it is from reading the comments on the article.

It's not just this cable, every future Trans-Atlantic cable recently installed or planned within the next 5 years ( except Hibernia Express, which goes to U.K. But also has a branch to Eire) is avoiding the UK.

But it has nothing to do with Brexit, the new systems are being driven by the content guys and they don't have any data centres in the U.K.

Brexit won't impact any future builds to the UK. The UK is still well served by the infrastructure installed during the .com bubble. although it is getting a bit long in the tooth now.

London will continue as global financial centre after Brexit, and new infrastructure will be built when it is demanded. Indeed Brexit should be seen as an opportunity to de-shackle the UK from Euro legislation to encourage more content players , data centre builders etc to base themselves in the UK and drive new cable builds to the UK.

- Peter Jamieson

Principal Engineer - Core Network Support at Virgin Media & Chairman - European Subsea Cables Association

EDIT: Here's a link to some further information: https://data-economy.com/avoid-uk-completely-go-directly-new...

> Sunil Tagare

> Thought leader in the global telecommunications industry

I honestly can't tell either.

Although describing yourself as a " thought leader" seems popular these days, I don't think I've ever come across anybody using that term about themselves accurately.

"thought leader" is the point I quit taking people serious.

Heh, I came to the comments hoping for an answer. Oh well...

I too honestly thought this was satire.

But it looks more like a political statement, and one which appears to be clouding some technical judgement over why routing the cable this way may not be the best idea ever, as outlined by one or two responses to that article on the LinkedIn site.

As to Brexit itself, which appears to be the main reason for routing the cable this way, and any negative effects feared - for whom? It seems to be some nebulous fear of some sort? Nothing particularly specific anyway, other than he thinks 'Brexit will be bad'.

"Thought leader." Hmmm..

I think the NY to France link would be good for the simple fact that it would make it much harder for the GCHQ to mirror internet traffic locally as they apparently do with fibre that terminates in the UK.

I doubt it. NSA will surely be tapping it on the US side. That pretty much guarantees GCHQ will also have access.

Why do I have to log in to linkedin for this??

Why is this BS on HN?

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