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To: SJS who wrote (1227)	4/16/2000 1:03:00 AM
From: roly	Respond to of 2249

To All, <<Telefonica to Link the US, Central, and South America with a 23,000 km Undersea Cable More... YottaYotta, Hyperchip to Develop Fibre Channel Line Card PMD Compensation Start-Up YAFO Networks Garners $31 Million in Second-Round Funding LSI Logic, IronBridge Completes Terabit Router ASIC Development Metro Internet Service Provider Telseon Launches Managed Gigabit Services Telefonica to Link the US, Central, and South America with a 23,000 km Undersea Cable 4/13/2000 At Americas Telecom 2000, Emergia (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) presented information on its 23,000 km long submarine cable network. It is joined by two terrestrial fiber-optic segments and connected to an entire network of national connections. The new system will link South America, Central America, and the U.S. from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, to provide an international communications infrastructure. It is the largest undersea fiber-optic cable existing in the region, and its introduction has already entailed an investment of 1.6 billion dollars. The submarine cable uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), which multiplies by 48 the capacity of fiber optic transmissions. Its ring configuration allows automatic restoration of the system. Several levels of access speed will be available, capable of supporting all kinds of service, which will enable companies to expand their capacity according to need. On the Atlantic coastline, the system will connect the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Brazil, and Argentina. On the Pacific coastline, the system will connect Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Guatemala. In Brazil, the company will have landing points at Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, and El Salvador. The cable has an initial capacity of 40 gigabytes per second, which can be expanded to 1.92 terabits per second. The system will provide Latin America with a practically inexhaustible-capacity transmission line, regardless of access demand in the region. The first phase of the project will start service next August 31, and will be available on a commercial basis in Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) and Argentina. The company is expected to be functioning in its entirety by March 2001 and will offer open, unrestricted access to any telecoms services provider in Latin America for any type of service (data, voice, and image transmission, etc.).>> This reaffirms the future DWDM and SCMR is a big part. Roly