SAm-1

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.