The Monet submarine cable, which connects the United States and Brazil, is now fully operational, to provide telecommunications services with high capacity and speed, and is just waiting for the SACS system, to directly connect Angola to the United States.
The consortium formed by the Angolan telecommunications multinational Angola Cables, Algar Telecom, Google and the Uruguayan operator Antel announces that the 10,556km Monet submarine cable, which connects Boca Raton, in Florida to Fortaleza and Santos, in Brazil, is complete and establishing an advanced digital bridge between the two countries, with the capacity to deliver more than 64 Tbps.
The Monet submarine cable, designed and built based on the concept SubCom Open Cablesincorporates cutting-edge submarine technology, allowing for an exceptional offering of bandwidth capacity and, therefore, a major improvement in Internet latency performance.
The introduction of commercial traffic and services via the submarine cable will improve current connection needs between Latin America and the United States, as well as provide a powerful platform and stable infrastructure to meet the growing demand for capacity in the future.
“The completion of the Monet submarine cable system represents an extremely significant milestone for the market, as it brings a new generation of submarine cable technology, capable of facing new challenges of digital evolution. The effort to make this cable operational, with direct, low-latency connections, will bring real economic benefits to the regions, especially Angola and the African continent, which will now be directly connected to the main production centers for content and digital services,” said António Nunes, CEO of Angola Cables and president of the Monet Executive Committee.
For António Nunes, the digital wave opens up new horizons and business opportunities, many of which are unknown at the moment. “Monet will guarantee the contribution to the growth and development of well-being” concludes António Nunes.
Or Monet system
Monet is owned by a consortium formed by the Angolan multinational telecommunications company Angola Cables, which operates in the telecommunications wholesale market, Algar Telecom, ANTEL (Uruguayan telecommunications company) and Google (multinational technology company).
Monet will feature the latest optical transmission and cable technologies of 6 high-quality fiber pairs, with an initial design capacity greater than or equal to 64Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber pairs).
Monet’s ground stations are in Boca Raton, Florida (United States) and in Fortaleza and Santos, Brazil.
The consortium
Angola Cables is an Angolan multinational telecommunications company that operates in the wholesale market. Owner of a large international network of submarine cables in the Atlantic, it operates two data centers. It is one of the largest shareholders in WACS (West Africa Cable System), providing services to the sub-Saharan region, becoming one of the main IP providers in the region. Its main projects are SACS, which will be the first submarine cable system in the south of the Atlantic, directly connecting Angola and Brazil.
Angola Cables’ goal is to transform Angola into one of the main telecommunications centers on the African continent and support the development of broadband in the northeast region of Brazil. With our infrastructure we are changing the world’s existing IP transit configuration.
Algar Telecom is one of the main Brazilian telecommunications companies. It offers fixed and mobile telephony, broadband Internet access (3G, 4G and ADSL), data communication, cable television, IT solutions, national and international long distance services.
Antel is a state-owned telecommunications company in Uruguay, which has a strong commitment to the universalization of broadband access and has taken firm measures to eliminate the digital divide, one of which is the current deployment of a fiber optic network throughout the country. Antel currently provides Internet connectivity to a total of 78% of homes across the country, with more than 68% of people having access to fiber optics. Antel was the first company in Latin America to provide customers with LTE technology and ranks third in terms of mobile broadband speeds in the Americas. The new Tier III Datacenter, strategically located between Argentina and Brazil, will complement the Monet System and position Antel as a regional provider of connectivity and cloud services.