Latin American IP transit and connectivity provider EdgeUno has announced a new fibre optic route connecting Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires in Argentina.
The Argentina-Chile Digital Bridge, as CEO Mehmet Akcin calls it on social network LinkedIn, is a 2,550 kilometre route featuring 24 pairs of fibre, bringing what is described as unprecedented connectivity between these two major economies and supporting demand for cloud, streaming and business interconnection services. It also offers a new route between Chile’s data centre hotspot Santiago and the Argentine capital.
The project, which is at the construction phase, has a completion date of December 2026. There is no information so far on the amount it will cost or potential partners in the project,
According to news resource BNamericas, the fibre network, which will be mostly aerial, will include 80 kilometres of fibre buried in the Andes region. It will use dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to deliver high-speed services between the two countries.
The network will also have a branch to coastal city Las Toninas, the entrance point of submarine cables in Argentina. The design of the network incorporates a ring between Las Toninas, Buenos Aires and Pehuajo in Buenos Aires province, adding protection to the network in Argentina.
According to a social media post by Mehmet Akcin, in June this year EdgeUno became the world's largest Latin American IP network with 108Tbps of network capacity and a 20Tbps traffic peak record.
EdgeUno claims to have more than 50 Tier III or Tier IV locations across 11 Latin America countries, as well as seven office locations, including a Buenos Aires office.
