Technology Magazine June 2022 | Page 171

EXCELLENT CONNECTIVITY
Fibre Routes Recent investments in subsea fibre infrastructure have improved Norway ’ s connectivity .
List of routes :
• Skagenfiber West
• Skagerak 4
• Havsil
• Havfrue / AEC-2
• NO-UK Cable
• Celtic Norse
• Leif Erikson
• Tampnet
< 15ms
< 20ms
< 30ms
Latency Examples from Oslo , the Norwegian capital and Stavanger , on the west coast of Norway .
RTD IN MS FRANKFURT LONDON AMSTERDAM PARIS DUBLIN OSLO 14.4 14.9 12.6 19.9 18.2
STAVANGER 14.1 11.6 16.3 17.4 12.1
Source : Invest in Norway
STRONG ECO SYSTEM
Digital mature and skilled workforce

• High competence , independence , high efficiency

• Flat hierarchies

Political
Commitment The Norwegian Government issued the world ’ s first data centre strategy in 2018 and updated it in 2021 . This is a strong political commitment to continuously work to improve the framework conditions ( taxes , energy , fibre ) for the data centre ecosystem .
Norwegian Datacenter
Industry Members of the association represent the whole data centre ecosystem , form site developers , designers , builders , suppliers , fibre operation , power providers to data centre operators . Currently there are 30 + members , the number is steadily growing .
Member of the European
Single Market Norway is fully integrated in the European Single Market through the EEA and Schengen Agreement .
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