Finland’s data center push moves forward with this week’s announcement that networking giant Alcatel-Lucent will supply the new 1,100-km undersea data cable between Helsinki and the Rostock-Ribnitz area in Germany. Alcatel will partner with the Cinia Group – a Finnish government-owned telco provider – to lay the 15 Terabit-per-second cable, with the goal of improving the security and reliability of broadband connections. It will be the first such connection between central Europe and the Nordic region.