Telefónica, Alcatel link Brazil to the US


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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez

| 22 April 2016




Telefónica and Nokia-owned Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have signed a turnkey agreement to deploy an 11,000km submarine cable system linking Brazil to the United States.



alcatel telefonicaThe system – named BRUSA – aims to increase end-to-end connectivity and high speed broadband services in the Latin American region, allowing Telefónica to strengthen its offer in the wholesale market and addressing the exponential growth of data transmission.

Linking Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil) with San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Virginia Beach (US), the system will also deliver enhanced resiliency over the Brazil-to-US route.

“BRUSA comes at a time of continued interest in the Brazil-US route to reliably carry increasing volumes of data traffic as global demand for ultra broadband access is rising,” said Philippe Piron, president of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks. “We are pleased to support Telefónica in seizing the growth opportunities of the global wholesale market and meeting its customers’ demands.”

BRUSA will deploy ASN’s optical transmission technology, which enables operators to extract maximum capacity from the wet plant and dry plant and create economies of scale by offering fast and dynamic provisioning.

The system will integrate Telefónica’s global fibre optic network, which has over 65,000km of subsea cable connecting the US, the Americas and Europe.