SAm-1 (South America-1) is an optical submarine communications cable. It started operations in 2000, connecting the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Guatemala. In 2007, SAm-1 was extended to reach Ecuador and Colombia.
It has landing points in:
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
Fortaleza, Brazil
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Las Toninas, Argentina
Valparaíso, Chile
Arica, Chile
Lurín District, Peru
Máncora, Peru
Puerto San José, Guatemala
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
Salinas, Ecuador
Barranquilla, Colombia
When approved in 2000, SAm-1 was to consist of four fiber pairs initially operating at 40 Gbit/s in a self-healing ring configuration, expandable to 48 channels at 10 Gbit/s each, for a total design capacity of 480 Gbit/s, and with multiple upgrade capability using dense wavelength-division multiplexing up to 1.92 terabits per second.