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EXA’s New North Sea Fibre Route: What It Means for UK and Irish ISPs
Subsea cable between UK and Belgium
In July 2025, EXA Infrastructure unveiled a major development in European connectivity, the first subsea cable route between the UK and Belgium in over 25 years. Designed to meet rising demand for bandwidth, resilience, and cross-border capacity, the route links London to Amsterdam, Brussels, and Frankfurt via 1,085 km of terrestrial fibre and 115 km of new subsea infrastructure. For UK and Irish ISPs, this project introduces new opportunities to expand capacity, reduce latency, and build more robust, scalable networks in a market where customer expectations and data traffic continue to surge.
A Next-Generation Fibre Corridor
The route integrates high-specification terrestrial and subsea segments with ultra-low-loss fibre, new landing stations, and amplifier upgrades that support long-term scalability. EXA’s design ensures the corridor is 400G-ready across more than 65,000 km of its broader network footprint, allowing ISPs to confidently invest in bandwidth-intensive services.
Key latency benchmarks include:
6.2 milliseconds to Amsterdam
9.4 milliseconds to Frankfurt
These figures represent a significant improvement for industries where milliseconds matter, such as financial trading, gaming, cloud infrastructure, and media delivery. With capacity and performance now aligned to modern traffic demands, UK and Irish ISPs gain access to faster, more reliable routes into Europe’s most connected digital hubs.
Strategic Implications for Regional ISPs
This route introduces greater operational flexibility for ISPs looking to differentiate their offerings or meet new commercial requirements. By avoiding older, congested pathways, providers benefit from:
– Improved network resilience
– Greater route diversity for disaster recovery planning
– Enhanced positioning in competitive tenders requiring multiple transit options
EXA’s role as the sole telecom partner within the cable consortium also simplifies the commercial interface for ISPs. Instead of navigating multi-party ownership, providers engage directly with a single partner, ensuring service-level transparency, streamlined negotiations, and more predictable delivery. For Irish ISPs, the new route strengthens links with mainland Europe and supports international business growth, enterprise hosting, and content distribution with improved latency and performance.
Enabling Scalable Services in a Bandwidth-Hungry Market
From hyperscalers and OTT platforms to cloud-native applications and AI-driven workloads, the demand for high-throughput, low-latency connectivity continues to grow. This route allows ISPs to scale their infrastructure in line with evolving customer and enterprise needs.
With upgraded amplifier sites, increased fibre counts, and Channel Tunnel route integration, ISPs gain multiple pathways to build or enhance service offerings without re-engineering their entire network. These technical enhancements provide a foundation for more dynamic traffic routing, improved peering arrangements, and higher-value services.
Why Last-Mile Readiness Still Matters
As regional and international networks evolve, delivering end-to-end performance still relies on high-quality, well-deployed customer-premises equipment (CPE). The availability of faster backhaul means little if the customer experience is bottlenecked at the home or office gateway.
Euroroute’s No-touch Deployment
Through our no-touch deployment model, we help ISPs activate services rapidly and consistently, ensuring that customers benefit immediately from upgraded core infrastructure. Our plug-and-play approach eliminates the need for on-site configuration, reducing time to service and support overheads.
Euroroute’s trusted CPE ecosystem includes:
FRITZ! – ideal for business and power users who need top-tier performance, VPN support, and advanced security.
Kontron Iskratel Innbox – such as the U92 series, which offers universal WAN support across fibre, DSL, and LTE—ideal for mixed infrastructure deployments.
Icotera – purpose-built for high-performance fibre networks with a focus on sleek design, low failure rates, and Wi-Fi excellence.
Our devices support Cloud ACS integration (powered by AVSystem), enabling zero-touch provisioning, mass firmware updates, and proactive diagnostics, all essential for scalable ISP operations.
Infrastructure and Experience Go Hand-in-Hand
EXA’s new North Sea fibre corridor gives UK and Irish ISPs access to faster, more resilient, and future-ready connectivity. But to fully leverage this investment, providers must ensure their last-mile solutions keep pace. Euroroute enables ISPs to deliver high-performance services from core to customer with pre-configured CPE, automated management, and a trusted supply chain of best-in-class devices. As new connectivity corridors emerge, we’re here to help you launch, scale, and support services that meet the demands of modern broadband users. Contact Euroroute today to explore how our no-touch deployment services and CPE solutions can help your network capitalise on the performance potential of EXA’s new fibre corridor.
EXA’s new North Sea fibre route boosts bandwidth, resilience, and international reach for UK ISPs.
Learn how Euroroute’s no-touch CPE deployment and premium device partnerships help providers fully capitalise on this next-generation infrastructure upgrade.