- Backhaul
- Bandwidth
- Broadband
- Cloud
- Connectivity
- Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- Disaster Recovery
- Edge
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Who is Farice?
Farice is a telecommunications infrastructure company that owns and operates international subsea fiber-optic cable systems connecting Iceland with Europe.
- Operator of subsea fiber-optic cable systems between Iceland and mainland Europe (connectivity infrastructure).
- Wholesale provider of international bandwidth and IP transit services to carriers, ISPs, data centers, and enterprises (carrier services).
- Provision of resilient, low-latency connectivity routes for data traffic between Iceland, the Nordics, and continental Europe (network services).
- Management of cable landing stations and related terrestrial backhaul in Iceland and partner countries (network infrastructure operations).
- Support for connectivity needs of cloud, content, and research communities requiring routes into and out of Iceland (connectivity enablement).
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Farice operates subsea fiber-optic cable infrastructure that provides international connectivity between Iceland and Europe, serving as a core component in the region’s telecommunications and data transport architecture.
The company focuses on wholesale and carrier-grade services, supplying bandwidth and IP transit (network and connectivity services) to telecommunications operators, Internet Service Providers (ISP), data center operators, and enterprise or public-sector customers that route traffic in and out of Iceland.
Farice’s submarine cable systems use fiber-optic transmission technologies common in long-haul networks, including Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) for high-capacity optical transport, and are integrated with terrestrial backhaul networks that extend connectivity from cable landing sites to national and international network nodes.
The infrastructure is typically designed with route diversity and redundant paths between Iceland and mainland Europe, which enterprises, cloud providers, and content networks use to plan for failover, Disaster Recovery (DR), and latency-aware routing between Nordic and European Points of Presence (PoP).
From an enterprise and institutional perspective, Farice’s services fit into connectivity and network infrastructure categories, providing international backbone capacity that underpins VPNs, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks, internet access, content distribution, cloud interconnection, and research and education network traffic.
Technical stakeholders planning architectures that locate workloads, data centers, or edge facilities in Iceland use Farice’s cable systems as primary physical routes to European Internet Exchange Points (IXP) and interconnection hubs, aligning with requirements for predictable latency, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and capacity scaling.
Farice coordinates with landing station operators and partner carriers in connected countries to provide end-to-end connectivity options, so that enterprises and service providers can procure international capacity as part of broader network solutions that link Iceland with Nordic and European metropolitan areas.
Within an enterprise IT marketplace taxonomy, Farice is categorized under subsea cable operators and wholesale network providers, with offerings that align to backbone connectivity, IP transit, and international bandwidth services rather than last-mile access or retail broadband.
Our description of Farice. Updated December 2025.
