SAm-1
Optical Submarine Communication Cable
SAm-1 (South America-1) is an optical submarine communications cable. It started operations in 2000, connecting the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Guatemala. In 2007, SAm-1 was extended to reach Ecuador and Colombia.
It has landing points in:
- Boca Raton, Florida, United States
- Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
- Fortaleza, Brazil
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
- Las Toninas, Argentina
- Valparaíso, Chile
- Arica, Chile
- Lurín District, Peru
- Máncora, Peru
- Puerto San José, Guatemala
- Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
- Salinas, Ecuador
- Barranquilla, Colombia
When approved in 2000, SAm-1 was to consist of four fiber pairs initially operating at 40 Gbit/s in a self-healing ring configuration, expandable to 48 channels at 10 Gbit/s each, for a total design capacity of 480 Gbit/s, and with multiple upgrade capability using dense wavelength-division multiplexing up to 1.92 terabits per second.[1][2]
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- 2Africa
- AC-2
- AEConnect
- Africa Coast to Europe
- ALBA-1
- AMX-1
- ANTILLAS I
- ARCOS-1
- Americas II
- Apollo
- Atlantic Crossing 1
- Atlantis-2
- BDSNi
- BRICS Cable
- C-Lion1
- Circe
- Columbus II
- Columbus III
- Concerto 1
- Danice
- Dunant
- ECFS
- EllaLink
- FARICE-1
- GLO-1
- GlobeNet
- Grace Hopper
- Greenland Connect
- HUGO
- Hibernia Express
- MAREA
- MAYA-1
- Main One
- Monet
- NorSea Com 1
- PAN AM
- PEC
- Pacific Caribbean Cable System
- SACS
- SAIL
- SAT-3/WASC
- SAex
- SAm-1
- SEA-ME-WE 3
- SHEFA-2
- SMPR-1
- Southern Caribbean Fiber
- Svalbard Undersea Cable System
- Tangerine
- ULYSSES
- UNISUR
- VSNL Northern Europe
- VSNL Western Europe
- West Africa Cable System
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