Telefonica will connect Brazil and the US with a new submarine cable – Aguasdigital.com

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Overview showing the final phase of deployment of the most modern submarine fiber optic cable in the Caribbean and Central Beach Isla Verde, Carolina (Puerto Rico). EFE / File

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             Telefonica will connect Brazil and the US with a new submarine cable

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9/3/2016 6:10 (-6 GTM)

                Madrid, March 9 (EFE) .- Telefonica will deploy a new submarine cable, almost 11,000 kilometers long, which will connect Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, in Brazil, San Juan of Puerto Rico and Virginia Beach (USA), has announced today the telecommunications operator.
the new submarine cable, which entered into operation is scheduled for early 2018, will help the multinational to strengthen its leadership in infrastructure throughout the Americas, as highlighted by the operator in a statement.
BRUSA, as the cable is called, will join Telxius, the new global infrastructure company recently created by Telefónica and gradually will incorporate some of these, including part of its network of cell towers and cable optical fiber.
According to the company, the leading cable technology will allow ultrafast provide transmission capacity, increase availability to end service and ultrafast broadband connectivity end.
the operator has stressed that this new infrastructure reinforces its leadership in the wholesale telecommunications sector and addresses the exponential growth of data generated by their customers B2B, telecommunications operators, OTT companies and consumers.
the cable will improve the reliability of communications and provide greater resilience by increasing the number of access points in the United States,
also offer one of the communication links lower latency between the continent’s two largest economies, Brazil and the United States, and will provide greater flexibility and scalability than other systems deployed to date.
Recently, Telefónica has strengthened its infrastructure in America with the deployment of Pacific Caribbean Cable system (PCCS ), a building constructed in consortium with a transmission capacity up to 80 Tbps.
That submarine cable links Cable Jacksonville (Florida, USA) with the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Curacao, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador .
Telefónica also manages Unisur, the cable connecting Uruguay and Argentina, as well as the SAM-1, a submarine cable system deployed in 2000, and as a ring of 25,000 kilometers linking United States, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
with this new cable, the statement, Telefónica reinforces its commitment to offer a more cost effective and reliable service not only to group companies but also to other operators and content providers, allowing further uptake of international growth opportunities in the wholesale telecommunications sector.
Telefonica’s international network has over 65,000 km of fiber optic (31,000 of them owned) that connects the United States with the rest of the Americas and Europe.