The Ceará records do not provide an estimated activation date for the Elea Digital datacenter. The first one connecting Brazil was supposed to be ready for service by 3Q21.īNamericas was not able to reach the company for comments. In 2018, in one of the latest updates to the project, SAEx International announced the hiring of Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), a subsidiary of Nokia, to carry out the marine survey and the manufacturing activities for the cable, which was to be divided into two phases. In total, according to the Ceará government, cable systems spanning nearly 143,000km dock in Fortaleza's metropolitan region.Īlong with 16 operational systems, there is a project listed as “under construction”: the South Atlantic Express (SAEx), a submarine fiber cable to link the US, Brazil, South Africa, India and Singapore, though the project has remained stalled for the past five years.

According to its own database, it has 11 unique cable systems, some of which could count as two if they have one input cable and one output cable connected to the city. The city's metropolitan region also has 16 submarine cables landing or departing from its shores, according to Ceará government records obtained by BNamericas.įortaleza, which claims to be the most connected city in the Americas, counts the number of cable systems by routes. Fortaleza, the capital of Brazil's Ceará state, has 13 datacenters in operation and a new facility 'under implementation' by Piemonte Holding's Elea Digital.

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