The Class of 2000 Is Retiring. Lasers Won’t Replace It. Here’s What Will.
Most of Latin America’s internet still rides on cables laid when the region was on dial-up. I’m not exaggerating. SAm-1, SAC, PAC, GlobeNet, Americas-II, Maya-1, ARCOS-1. Line up their ready-for-service dates and they all fall between late 1999 and 2001. Subsea cables are engineered for a minimum design life of 25 years. Do the math….









