Global Crossing Grows Latin America

Global Crossing [1] has made two announcements in the past 30 days touting their upgrades in Latin America. (If that isn't enough of a clue the IP business is hot in the Southern hemisphere, there's also translations of GC's website in Portuguese and Spanish). In its latest announcement, the self-styled "IP solutions provider" said it has put "Supercore" routing platforms into Buenos Aries, San Tiago, and San Paulo. The company had previously installed Supercore routers in St. Croix, USVI and Fort Amador, Panama. 

The announced upgrades effectively triple the company's previous core capacity in the region and enables OC-192/10 Gbps SONET connections on its 12,000 route miles South American Crossing (SAC) undersea fiber-optic cable system; last month, Global Crossing announced it expanded SAC by 100 Gbps of transport capacity. The company cites the need to handle rising demand for 10 Gbps Ethernet services and the need to future-proof for services faster than 10 GBps without the delays caused by forklift upgrades.

IDC is projecting the Latin American market for enterprise IP services to grow from $2.94 billion in 2008 to $4.3 billion in 2011, at an annualized rate of 10.1 percent.

For more:
- Global Crossing's Extension to Latin America [2] press release.
- Last month's announcement of Global Crossing's 100 Gbps Latin America [3] Upgrade.

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