wiredInUSA June 2018

Monet set to make an impression

The 10,556km Monet cable system connecting Boca Raton, Florida, to both Fortaleza and Santos, Brazil, is fully operational, establishingadigital gateway between the US and Brazil capable of delivering over 64Tb per second. The Monet system, designed and built on the SubCom Open Cables concept, uses the latest submarine technology to provide bandwidth design capacity and improved Internet latency performance. It features six fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies, with an initial design capacity of greater than, or equal to, 64Tb per second (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x six fiber-pairs). The introduction of commercial traffic and services using the undersea cable will improve current connectivity needs between Latin America and the US, and

offers a powerful platform and stable backbone to accommodate increased capacity demands in the future. Antonio Nunes, chairperson of the Monet executive committee, said: “The completion of the Monet submarine cable system is an extremely significant milestone for the market, by bringing a new generation of technology in submarine cables capable of facing the new challenge of digital evolution. The effort to bring this submarine cable to service with direct and low-latency connections will bring real benefits to the economies of the regions.” The Monet cable system is owned by Algar Telecom (a Brazilian telecom company and ISP), Angola Cables, Antel (the Uruguayan telecom company) and Google.

wiredInUSA - June 2018

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