Meta Platforms is planning another subsea cable system.

The company, via Edge Cable Holdings USA, LLC, has filed with the FCC for a submarine cable landing license for a new subsea cable connecting the US and Denmark.

As first reported by Communications Daily, the cable will be known as the Aurora system.

Meta filed the application with the FCC on August 17, 2026.

According to documents attached to the application, the cable will land in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Blaabjerg, Denmark. The landing stations are already in existence, with the New Jersey site owned by NJFX and the Denmark location owned by Arelion.

It will span 7,268 kilometers and have 24 fiber pairs, each of which will have a design capacity of 20.7Tbps, suggesting a total capacity of 497Tbps. The application states that the company has not yet decided how much of the capacity will be lit when the cable launches.

The company is targeting a January 15, 2028, launch date and is requesting that it be granted the cable landing license by November 2026 to meet this schedule.

The document states that the cable system "will provide significant new capacity on routes where capacity demand continues to increase substantially each year and further enhance the resilience of Edge USA’s subsea connectivity. Edge USA may also provide dark fiber into the secondary market, providing additional support for advanced data-centric services in the United States and abroad." It also notes that it will enhance "facilities-based competition" for US-Denmark and other transatlantic routes.

The application notes that other cables running in competing routes include the AEC-1, Amitié, Apollo, Atlantic Crossing-1, Dunant, EXA North and South, FLAG Atlantic-1, Grace Hopper, MAREA, TGN Atlantic, and Yellow systems, as well as the planned Nuvem, Fastnet, and Sol cable systems.

It will also be an open cable system, enabling different fiber owners to separately operate and control submarine line terminating equipment.

Meta has a number of subsea cables operating or under development, both alone and as part of consortia. In February 2025, the company filed for a 50,000km cable connecting five continents known as Project Waterworth.

Meta is also behind the 45,000km 2Africa cable, which was previously set to be the world's longest, connecting 33 countries with 46 landing points across Africa, Europe, and Asia. That cable is partially funded by Telecom Egypt, China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Vodafone, and the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC).