Cable type Fibre-optic Construction beginning Q4 2014 First traffic July 2017 (planned) | Fate In Construction Construction finished Q3 2017 Design capacity 64 TBit/s | |
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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.
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
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.
Final splicing occurred in November 2016.