farice.is

What It Is

Farice is an Iceland-based wholesale connectivity provider focused on international capacity. Its core assets include submarine cable systems such as FARICE-1, DANICE, and IRIS. It is not a CDN provider in the traditional sense: the reviewed materials do not describe CDN features such as edge caching, web acceleration, image optimization, or edge functions. Instead, Farice offers city-to-city private lines, wavelengths, circuits, EPL Ethernet private lines, and Global IP Transit.

Core Capabilities and Coverage

Its network focuses on connecting Iceland with Europe. Locations include two major sites in Reykjavik, the Keflavik Airport data center, and routes to Amsterdam, London, Copenhagen, Dublin, the Faroe Islands, and selected Nordic cities. In terms of capacity, the materials state that the IRIS route supports up to 132Tb/s, DANICE around 40Tb/s, and FARICE-1 10Tb/s. Services support 10G/100G wavelengths, while EPL can be delivered over 100GbE, 10GbE, and 1GbE interfaces, with throughput ranging from 100Mb/s to 40Gb/s. POP-to-POP SLAs are also available.

Billing and Pricing

Farice’s services are primarily contract-based. Wavelengths, EPL, and IP Transit all mention a minimum one-year contract. Global IP Transit supports committed capacity with 95% burstable billing, and customers can also choose Flat Rate, subrate, or full port rate options. The website does not publish a price list; it only notes that wholesale capacity prices in Europe have declined year by year, and that STM-1 unit pricing fell sharply in the past.

Pros and Cons

The main advantages are clearly defined submarine cable assets and diverse routing options, making Farice suitable for customers that need reliable, high-capacity connectivity between Iceland and Europe. It can also fit use cases involving Iceland’s renewable energy resources and data center ecosystem. The downside is that it is not an out-of-the-box CDN; its acceleration value mainly comes from underlying transport and interconnection. The materials do not mention DDoS protection, edge computing, China nodes, ICP filing support, online payment, or similar features, and procurement appears to follow a more enterprise-oriented sales process.

Best Fit and Access from China

Farice is better suited to carriers, ISPs, data centers, AI/HPC infrastructure operators, cross-border private line buyers, and IP Transit customers, rather than typical website owners. Information on access from mainland China, payment methods, and local compliance is not disclosed. If the goal is to accelerate web access for users in China, it is usually better to evaluate CDNs with China nodes and ICP filing support, or consider international CDN providers such as Cloudflare, Akamai, and Fastly for different scenarios.