Back in August, AquaComms announced plans to build a fiber optic, high-speed networking cable connecting New York to London. Today, the company announced that it has finished the last marine segment of the cable, and it will be ready for service by January 31, 2016. The cable system runs more than 5,536 km across the Atlantic Ocean, and will be 100G capable.  

“With the final splice of the subsea portion of AEConnect complete, we stand on the cusp of providing unprecedented transatlantic capacity and reliability connecting New York to London and beyond to greater Europe,” Martin Roche, Chief Financial Officer, Aqua Comms, said in a statement.

AquaComms’ cable system is one of the first subsea cables between NYC and London in nearly 15 years. It was designed to have low latency, and 52Tbps of capacity. AquaComms also announced that the cable will be highly expandable on either coast, as it was built with strategic expansion ports.