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{{Short description|Optical Submarine Communication Cable}}
'''SAm-1''' (South America-1) is an [[fiber optics|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 [[Cable landing point|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&nbsp;Gbit/s in a self-healing ring configuration, expandable to 48 channels at 10&nbsp;Gbit/s each, for a total design capacity of 480&nbsp;Gbit/s, and with multiple upgrade capability using [[dense wavelength-division multiplexing]] up to 1.92 terabits per second.<ref>{{cite web
|title=DA 00-1826 in the matter of Cable Landing License SCL-LIC-20000204-00003
|url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Orders/2000/da001826.txt
|accessdate=2006-07-25
|date=2000-08-10
|format=text
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=DA 00-1826 in the matter of Cable Landing License SCL-LIC-20000204-00003
|url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Orders/2000/da001826.doc
|accessdate=2006-07-25
|date=2000-08-10
|format=Word
}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Submarine communications cables in the Atlantic Ocean}}
{{Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean}}

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[[Category:Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean]]
[[Category:Submarine communications cables in the South Atlantic Ocean]]
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