International Fiber Peru has deployed a subaquatic optical, IP, and XGS-PON fiber broadband community within the Amazon rainforest in partnership with Nokia. This community connects over 400 communities, offering greater than 500,000 customers with multi-gigabit web entry, serving to to bridge the digital divide on this distant area.
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International Fiber Peru
Based in 2015, International Fiber Peru, a subsidiary of the Satelital Group, operates an in depth fiber optic community throughout Peru, specializing in 180 provincial capitals. In accordance with the official launch, the newly deployed community, buried within the Amazon River, interconnects customers within the coronary heart of the Amazon’s three-border area, together with areas the place Peru, Colombia, and Brazil share borders.
Regional Connectivity
The Nokia subaquatic optical spine connects the localities of Iquitos and Santa Rosa de Yaravi (Peru), Leticia (Colombia), and Tabatinga (Brazil), permitting International Fiber Peru to supply the primary FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Residence) broadband entry service within the area, in addition to multi-gigabit providers for enterprise customers.
The area has a diversified economic system that features oil manufacturing, agriculture (rice, corn, and cassava), timber extraction, fishing, tourism, and border commerce, International Fiber Peru says.
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Collaboration with FYCO
The deployment was made in collaboration with FYCO, a neighborhood companion specialised in fiber telecom networks in Latin America. The deal additionally contains upgrading the client’s present fiber networks in Lima, Cusco, and Huancayo.
Grupo Satelital mentioned: “Due to our R&D group, we accomplished the preliminary section of the challenge two years in the past, having linked the district of Yurimaguas to the municipality of Iquitos by means of the Amazon River. From Iquitos, with Nokia, we accomplished the second section of that subaquatic community.”
International Fiber mentioned: “We’re excited and proud to be the primary firm to have efficiently deployed an optical fiber community within the depths of the Amazon River, connecting three nations. This achievement bridges a big digital hole in distant areas beforehand inaccessible by conventional means.”
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This challenge is necessary because it gives fiber connections for the primary time to tons of of communities within the coronary heart of the Amazon rainforest, the official launch mentioned.
