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SMPR 1

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St. Maarten Puerto Rico-1 or SMPR-1 is an 8-pair non-repeated submarine telecommunications cable system of 375 km which uses Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology to link St. Maarten and Puerto Rico.

It has landing points in:

  • 6 pairs for St. Maarten International Telephone company (SMITCOM)'s facilities in Philipsburg, St. Maarten
  • 2 pairs for Dauphin Telecom's facilities on Baie Longue beach, in the French part of St. Martin
  • Ultracom's facilities in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico

    • The initial capacity on the SMPR-1 is 2.5 Gbit/s per fiber and is expandable to 20 Gbit/s on 8 fibers. November 2009 SMITCOM chooses Nokia Siemens Network to deploy Coriant hiT 7300 DWDM Long-haul platform. The platform is up-gradable to 40 Gbit/s per wavelength. which brings the maximum capacity to 240 Gbit/s for the Dutch side. The platform has recently been upgraded to 10 Gbit/s and now provides over 5 Gbit/s of IP transit to St.Maarten.

    References

    SMPR-1 Wikipedia
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