February 13, 2008 07:00 AM Eastern Time
Columbus Networks' New Undersea Fiber Cable Lands in Cartagena, Colombia
Colombia to Florida Express Route Nearing Completion
Adds Cable Diversity, Reliability
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Columbus Networks has completed cable installation on the first phase of an undersea fiber optic express route that connects Colombia with Florida. The company expects to illuminate the first of two fiber cable segments and begin offering service in April.
The first-phase undersea cable segment links Cartagena, Colombia and Morant Point, Jamaica. Installation work is continuing on the second phase of the cable that connects Jamaica to Florida in Boca Raton. The principal operator of the ARCOS undersea network, Columbus Networks expects to complete the second leg of the express route in July.
Once complete, the express route will provide customers in Colombia with the most direct route, an increased performance and the lowest latency data and IP connection to the USA, adding data traffic diversity, redundancy, and improved network reliability. See map: http://www.columbus-networks.com/images/columbusnetworksmap.jpg
"Columbus Networks clearly recognizes the importance of the thriving Colombian market on the regions' overall growth and economic expansion," said Paul Scott, president of Columbus Networks. "We decided to build the express route and add cable diversity to better meet increasing bandwidth demand, and to more evenly distribute communications traffic across a multi-path network."
Columbus Networks' Colombia-Florida Sub Sea Fiber Project, dubbed "CFX", includes more than 2,400 kilometers of deep-sea repeated high-capacity fiber optic cable. It also includes a new landing station in Cartagena where other regional communications providers are co-located for interconnection with Columbus Networks.
CFX is the largest network expansion project the company has undertaken since Columbus Communications acquired the company in September 2005.
About Columbus Networks
Columbus Networks is a wholesale service provider that offers advanced, high-speed bandwidth capacity to telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers. Columbus Networks is the 94 percent owner and principal operator of the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System (ARCOS). With more than 12,000 kilometers of undersea fiber optic cable, the company's ARCOS-1 network, CFX "Express Route" and Curacao to Trinidad link, when combined with the company's affiliates' sub-sea networks connecting The Bahamas (Caribbean Crossings) and Jamaica (Fibralink), positions the company as the leading undersea broadband fiber-optic cable network provider connecting the U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Columbus Networks is part of the Columbus Communications group. The company's website is www.columbus-networks.com. Telephone: 1-786-274-7400.
About Columbus Communications
Columbus Communications Inc. is a Barbados-based International Business Corporation that holds investments in retail broadband telecommunication providers based in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad, and wholesale broadband networks throughout the greater Caribbean and Central American region.
Columbus provides strategic direction, private equity, capital market expertise, technical and network architecture design, marketing support, and general management oversight to each of its investments.
Columbus' operating subsidiaries include Cable Bahamas Limited, FibraLink Jamaica Limited, Columbus Communications Trinidad Limited (operating under the brand, Flow Trinidad), Columbus Networks Ltd. and Columbus Jamaica Limited (operating under the brand Flow Jamaica). All of these companies are private, with the exception of Cable Bahamas which trades publicly on the Bahamas Securities Exchange. The company's website is www.columbuscommunications.com.
Contacts
Columbus Networks, Miami
Veronica Henley, 786-274-8693 or 305-776-0455 (cell)
vhenley@columbus-networks.com |
