SAm-1

{{Short description|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.{{cite web

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