Telefonica today revealed plans for a new submarine cable system linking North and South America. The new cable, called BRUSA, will connect the Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Rio de Janerio with the Puerto Rican port of San Juan and the Mid-Atlantic city of Virginia Beach.
The new infrastructure will be part of Telxius, which Telefonica is in the process of rolling out as its infrastructure subsidiary. Telefonica says the 11,000km submarine cable will be ‘one of the lowest latency communications links’ between Brazil and the USA, although such things of course depend on the actual endpoints.
