Algar Telecom (Brazil), Angola Cables (Angola), Antel (Uruguay) and Google announced plans to build a new undersea fiber-optic cable connecting the key cities of Santos and Fortaleza in Brazil with Boca Raton, Florida in the United States. TE Connectivity SubCom is the selected provider for the project.
This investment is part of a joint effort to help build the fabric of the Internet to sustain the current needs of Internet users in the Latin American region and to prepare for increased demands in the future. Currently, Latin America has a connected population of almost 300 million people and has become one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of Internet penetration. In addition, with the increasing deployment of LTE networks and fiber-optic network access, as well as the offer of high-quality contents (HD/4K) and cloud-based services, there is an ever growing demand for capacity access to data centers and the Internet globally.
The new route will be 10,556 km (6,560 miles) long and have six fiber pairs. According to estimations, it will increase the overall bandwidth of existing subsea cable systems by 64 Tbps (Terabits per second) of capacity. The cable will be built and operated by these four leading companies. The contract comes into effect today and the construction is expected to begin immediately and is planned to be completed by the end of 2016.
New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Po
Contracts Awarded in New Generation Ocea
Active Cleanup from Deepwater Horizon Ac
Hydro Group’s Unveils New Front-Runner f
New Technology for Harvesting Energy fro
Western Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsun
Scientists Discover New Marine Life in A
Polarstern Expedition Team Departs for t
NSU President Teaches Underwater Lesson
Offshore Technology Conference Elects Ne
Robertson Completes First Phase of Inno
New Short Film Highlights the Increasing
Statoil and Aker Solutions Cancel Cat B
Reef Subsea Dredging & Excavation Comple
Statoil and Rosneft Move Forward with Ex
Saab Receives Order for the Underwater V
American Climate Project Invests in KONG
Fugro, MacArtney and Edgetech Move Fast
AML Oceanographic Introduces New Profili
Swathe Services Purchase Sonic 2020 and
New SubConn® 13 Pin Low Profile Power an
AIRMAR Introduces New Chirp-Ready Broadb
Hemisphere GNSS Announces New Crescent®
AW-Lake Company Announces New Turbine Fl
UVS Appoints New Technical Sales Manager
Sonardyne International Ltd. Appoints Ne
Osiris Projects Among First to Purchase
Ocean Alliance New Headquarters in Glouc
Deepocean Group Holding Hires New Chief
New Exploration Opportunity - Offshore M
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting A.S. Sele
Bluefin Acquires SeeByte Adding New Soft
Imtech Marine Provides Complete Heating,
Seaborn Networks Receives Coface Guarant
Uninett Contracts with Global Marine Sys
New Industries Passes 1,000,000 Man-hour
International Submarine Engineering Ltd.
Wave Energy Project Could Bring Hundreds
Tritech Gemini Assists Reef Subsea Dredg
CHOIRS: Characterization of Hazardous Oc
BOEM Announces $2 Million in Awards to t
Drones Open Way to New World of Coral Re
Taking the Internet Underwater
Eni Norge Opens New Operations Center in
Navis to Cooperate with Aker Arctic On D
New Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences
Underwater Robot Tests in Hammerfest, No
New Earth and Marine Science and Technol
VIKING’s Super New LifeCraft™ to the Res
Ocean Power Technologies Awarded $2.6 Mi
Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group sign
Bluefin and NRL Complete Long-Endurance
UCLA Report Urges New Global Policy Effo
New Study Suggests Coral Reefs May be ab
Birns, Inc. Announces Strategic New Hire
Pole Star and Risk Intelligence Announce
Bolt Technology Announces Underwater Rob
Speedcast Expands Its Global Maritime VS
WOC and the Nautical Institute Launch Ne
New Generation of Micro Sensors for Moni
A Key Route-Engineering and Planning Too
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Annou
NOAA Announces Regulations to Protect Ma
Subsea Americas Opens New Facility
New Order for Danish Yachts
MCP Strengthens Mobile Connection Betwee
Unique System FZE Engineered and Supplie
Hunter TAFE and Australian Defence Suppl
Exocetus Development LLC Sets New Shallo
Statoil and NASA Finalize Research Agree
The SeaExplorer Underwater Glider Breaks
Fugro Opens New Office in Mozambique
CGG and Spectrum Announce Large Multi-Cl
NOSP – a New Powerful Entity
Willard Marine Wins Contract for 42 Sola
Statoil: Oseberg – 25 Years Young and St
Kongsberg GeoAcoustics Dual Frequency Si
BOEM and Louisiana Coastal Marine Instit
Underwater Mass Spectrometer from SRI In
Gas and Oil Discoveries in the Askja Pro
U.N. and Marine Companies Get Help from
Science Team Member Describes U.S. Arcti
Australia: A New Reef? We’ve Already Got
TGS Announces Four New Multi-Client Surv
New Revolutionary Nano-Filler Solves Wor
Saab Seaeye: Leopard - All Claws and Bit
Professor and Graduate Students From Nov
Palau Telecoms Selects Xtera for the Tur
New Industries Expands Piping Fabricatio
MacArtney Set for Record Breaking Growth
Broco® Underwater Introduces the New Ult
Ocean Networks Selects Xtera for the Tu
Secretary Jewell Honors BOEM and Two-Doz
MSI Awarded One Year Project to Support
Novacavi Cat 6 Data Cable Tested and App
JDR to Supply Umbilicals and Reelers for
Keppel Offshore and Marine Joins World O
OIL & GAS UK Discuss New Offshore Well I
New £8 Million Training Center for the O
New Regional Manager for Aquatic Asia Pa
Ocean News & Technology is a publication of TSC
7897 SW Jack James Drive
Suite A, Stuart, FL 34997
(772)-221-7720