Japan's NEC undertook the construction of the Latin American-European submarine cable WASACE1

Hemisphere Cable Corporation (HCC) and Japan's NEC announced plans to build a new submarine cable system called WASACE 1 to connect Europe with Latin America
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The new cable, which reaches a length of 29,000 km, will connect Fortaleza, Canary Islands and César in Brazil, as well as Cabo Verde, Madeira and Casablanca, among others
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In addition, the new system will include a Network Operations Center (NOC) as well as a new data center in the Canary Islands, with other routes
expected to open up from West Africa, the Mediterranean and North America.

"HCC is pleased to initially invest in the WASACE 1 system, ushering in a new era of connectivity between Europe and Latin America
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" HCC CEO Luis Jara said it will provide low-latency communication services
by providing direct paths between these continents without going through the United States.

Once built, WASACE 1 will be the first system to deploy first-generation fiber technology between Europe and Latin America, allowing it to add capacity
between previous legacy systems.
It will have 8 fiber pairs with a total capacity of 144Tbps, each with an upgradable initial capacity of 18Tbps
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The project will take no more than 30 months to complete and is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2021
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A second submarine cable system, WASACE 2, will also be deployed in the near future to connect the Canary Islands to South Africa, with detailed plans expected to be announced by mid-2019 for completion
in the second half of 2021.

Luis Jara said, "In addition, the establishment of the new data centre in the Canadian Islands, as well as the construction of the WASACE 2 cable, represents an important milestone
for HCC to become a major interconnection hub for and uniting Africa, Latin America, the Mediterranean region, the United States and Europe.
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