Monet (submarine cable)
| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| Fate | In Construction |
| Construction beginning | Q4 2014[1] |
| Construction finished | 2016[2] |
| First traffic | July 2017 (planned) |
| Design capacity | 64 TBit/s[1] |
| Built by | TE SubCom[3] |
| Landing points |
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| Area served | United States and Brazil |
| Owner(s) | Algar Telecom, Angola Cables, ANTEL, Google |
The MONET cable system is a subsea fiber optic cable scheduled to be deployed at the end of 2016, but delays in the execution bring the conclusion to July 2017. It will connect the cities of Santos and Fortaleza in Brazil with Boca Raton in the United States.
TE SubCom is the selected provider for the project.[1]
The new cable will be 10,556 km (6,560 miles) long and have six fiber pairs. It will have an initial capacity of 64 Tbit/s (Terabits per second). The cable will be operated by these four leading companies: Algar Telecom, Angola Cables, ANTEL, Google[4]
Equinix announced it has been selected by the Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide U.S. facilities and services for the next-generation cable landing station architecture to support the Monet Submarine Cable System, terminating in the U.S. at Equinix's MI3 International Business Exchange data center, which services the greater Miami metropolitan area.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Company". SubCom. 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
- ↑ "Angola Cables" (PDF). Antel.com.uy. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
- ↑ "TE SubCom Tapped for US-Brazil Cable". Light Reading. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
- ↑ "A multinational project to build a new underwater cable uniting Latin America and the U.S." (PDF). Antel.com.uy. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
- ↑ "Equinix Press Release". Equinix.com. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
