Equinix has been selected by the Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide U.S. facilities and services for the cable landing station architecture to support the Monet submarine cable system.
Monet is a planned submarine cable that is currently designed to deliver over 60 terabits of capacity between the U.S. and Brazil.
Monet is owned by Algar Telecom (a Brazilian telecom company and ISP), Angola Cables (an Angolan telecom company), Antel (the Uruguayan telecom company) and Google (together Monet Investors). In addition to being a Monet Investor Google is also the U.S. landing party for Monet.
Construction of the system is underway and is expected to be completed in 2017, terminating in the U.S. at Equinix’s MI3 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, which services the greater Miami metropolitan area.
Javier Emicuri , Antel CEO and chairman of Monet executive committee said: “We’re pleased to celebrate this important announcement made by companies strongly committed to connect geographies, people, countries and cultures.”
Tim Stronge , vice president, Research, TeleGeography said: “The decision to locate Monet’s Florida cable landing equipment at Equinix Miami represents a promising new trend in submarine cable communications. For cable owners, the elimination of a separate cable landing station simplifies network design and offers future savings on upgrades.”
Ihab Tarazi , chief technology officer, Equinix added: “We are seeing strong demand from network, cloud and content customers looking to leverage our MI3 data center in Miami for access to the Latin American market. By offering direct connectivity to the Monet cable system and the possibility of a low latency route between São Paulo and Miami we can support the needs of key global customers looking to expand in the region.”