PISCES Fibre Optic Cable System(Portugal Ireland Spain Connecting Europe Subsea)

Cable System Presentation

ANACOM May 2021

PISCES Sub Sea Fibre Optic Cable System PISCES SYSTEM DETAILS:

• 12 Fibre Pair System

Main Trunk• Dublin to Sines 2,131km

Phase 2• BU to Bilbao 840km

Galway

Sines

Bilbao

BU

Existing & Proposed Subsea Cables on Europe's Western Seaboard

PISCES Cable System (in yellow) will have the ability

to link and complement the following cable

systems:

• AEC - 2017

• Rockabill – 2019

• Marea – 2018

• Havfrue – 2020

• Ella Link – 2021

• Equiano – 2021

• Amitie – 2021

• Dunant – 2020

• Scylla – 2021

• Grace Hopper – 2021

• 2Africa – 2023

• IRIS – 2022

• Tuskar – 2022

Overall System Architecture

Characteristics

Galway Landfall & Approaches

Galway Landfall & Fronthaul

CLS Location – Galway Port

BMH

Drill to Sea Length 220m from the BMH to the Intertidal Zone

The total length of the fronthaul is 2km. All of the route is on public land and following meetings and a route walk with Galway City Council the Road Opening Licence will be forthcoming once construction is ready to commence.

Galway Modular Cable Landing Station

• Galway Cable Landing Station (CLS) –

Planning Permission received January 2021.

• Accordingly construction can commence

within 2 weeks of notice to Galway City

Council.

• The CLS site is within Galway Port. The Port

are very supportive of the Cable System and

are facilitating the CLS with a 35 year lease.

Example of Previously Built Modular Cable Landing Station

• Example of Modular Cable Landing Station

built for the Rockabill Cable System in 2019

at Donabate, North County Dublin.

Dual routes across Ireland on the Aurora Network and the F-Ire Network

Dublin

Aurora

GalwayF-Ire Network

Summary

Characteristics• Ongoing major growth in transatlantic cable

systems the past few years with significant

potential for further growth.

• Currently systems are landing in the Nordics,

Ireland, UK, France, Spain & Portugal.

• DeepSea envisages Ireland and Portugal as key

hubs of connectivity with opportunities in both

locations for new systems.

• Currently systems architecture is point to point

with redundancy provided across multiple systems.

• There is a lack of diverse terrestrial trunk networks

in Europe linking the key hubs.

• DeepSea wishes to provide a subsea link between

Portugal & Ireland with potential spurs to France &

Spain to link many of the new systems and provide

a diverse route along the western Atlantic

seaboard.