The Svalbard Connection consists of two parallel fibre-optic cables running along the ocean floor, spanning approximately 1,400 km, which is roughly the distance between Oslo and Paris. The two optical fiber cable consist of two segments, from Harstad to Breivika in Andøy Municipality, and from Breivika to Hotellneset near Longyearbyen in Svalbard. It connects the Svalbard community in Longyearbyen, and the world's northernmost ground satellite station, Svalsat, to the mainland through stable and efficient. High-capacity fibre cables are required to move vast quantities of data over large distances. Where Norway previously only had a few such undersea cables providing connections to the European mainland, the country now boasts an extensive network providing direct links between Norwegian coastal. The tear enabled seawater to come into contact with a copper layer carrying electrical current in one of the two cables that together make up the Svalbard fiber. The location was unique on Earth: every satellite in low Earth orbit above 500 km passes within range on every single orbit. No other ground station can make that claim. SvalSat was. An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is the physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers (ISPs) and content delivery networks (CDNs) exchange regional Internet traffic between their respective networks. In addition to the connectivity offered by national and international.