Cirion Technologies, a digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America announced what it describes as a new, wholly diverse and resilient Atlantic subsea route expanding fibre connectivity between Latin America and North America. It’s called the South American Crossing-2 (SAC-2) Route.
This new route forms part of the Firmina subsea system owned by Google, connecting the US to Latin America. It also complements Cirion’s existing SAC (South American Crossing) and MAC (Mid Atlantic Crossing) cables.
Cirion says SAC-2 offers complete diversity from existing Atlantic systems and from traditional landing points in Florida and New York. The route will include a landing in Praia Grande, Brazil and span from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on the East Coast of the US to Cirion’s carrier-neutral cable landing station in Las Toninas, Argentina. SAC-2 is expected to be ready for service in Q1 2025.
The cable system was designed to provide a new route between the US, Argentina and Brazil, as well as critical locations throughout Latin America, and will allow for a significant expansion of bandwidth capacity.
This means that Cirion will offer two redundant routes between the US and Brazil, in addition to two redundant routes extending to Argentina. These cables will bolster the resilience of Cirion’s network, ensuring robust and low-latency connectivity spanning the Americas.
Also, of course, the SAC-2 express route enables significant efficiencies on the current network, and meaningfully increases the throughput capacity of Cirion’s subsea fibre services for customers.
Cirion’s total network spans some 105,000 kilometres of submarine and long-haul / metro terrestrial fibre, 18 cable landing stations and six key subsea systems. Cirion also has a Tier-1 international IP network offering direct internet connectivity to major carriers and ISPs.
Together with its network infrastructure, Cirion says it provides critical, end-to-end connectivity within key Latin American regions and to and from the United States, offering a wide range of capacity, colocation and security services across the region.