Havfrue/AEConnect 2
Active7,851 km submarine cable system.
Key facts
- Status
- Active
- Length
- 7,851 km
- Design capacity
- 108Tbps
- Owners
- Aqua Comms, Meta, Google, Bulk Infrastructure
- Connects
- Denmark,Ireland,Norway,United States
Landing points
- USA New Jersey, United States, USA New Jersey — United States
- Denmark Blaabjerg, Denmark, Denmark Blaabjerg — Denmark
- Republic of Ireland Leckanvy, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland Leckanvy — Ireland
- Norway Kristiansand, Norway}}, Norway Kristiansand — Norway
Overview
Havfrue/AEConnect-2 spans 7,851 kilometres across the North Atlantic, connecting the eastern seaboard of the United States with three European nations: Denmark, Ireland and Norway. The system lands at New Jersey in the United States, Blaabjerg in Denmark, Leckanvy in the Republic of Ireland, and Kristiansand in Norway.
Capacity and Design
The cable is rated at a design capacity of 108 Tbps, placing it among the higher-capacity systems operating on the transatlantic corridor. That bandwidth reflects the scale of demand its ownership group was targeting — a mix of wholesale carriers and hyperscale technology companies with substantial transatlantic traffic requirements of their own.
Ownership
The ownership structure brings together Aqua Comms, the Irish-headquartered carrier specialising in North Atlantic infrastructure, alongside technology giants Meta and Google, and Norwegian data centre and infrastructure group Bulk Infrastructure. The combination of a specialist cable operator with major content providers and a Nordic infrastructure investor is characteristic of how large transatlantic systems are now financed and built — shared capital, shared capacity, aligned interests.
Strategic Significance
The route itself serves a part of the North Atlantic that carries significant traffic between North America and Northern Europe. Ireland has long functioned as a primary European landing point for transatlantic cables, and Leckanvy on the west coast continues that pattern. The Danish and Norwegian landings extend the system's reach into Scandinavia, a region whose data centre sector has grown considerably on the back of renewable energy availability. New Jersey remains one of the most established cable landing zones on the US East Coast, with direct connectivity to major financial and internet exchange infrastructure.
Taken together, the four landing points give Havfrue/AEConnect-2 a broader geographic spread than a simple point-to-point transatlantic link, making it a meaningful component of the North Atlantic cable network.