ICE Acquires Additional Broadband Internet Connection
August 21st, 2008 | by admin |Costa Rica now has an added internet connection, guaranteeing fast and continued connectivity to the rest of the world.
The new connection to the Columbus Network undersea fibre optical cable in the Atlantic gives ICE more direct access to broadband internet and allow the state institution to more simultaneous connections.
The direct route with Columbus represents and investment of us$80 million dollars by ICE that connects to the Colombia to Florida Express Route, that links links Cartagena, Colombia to Boca Raton, Florida.
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.
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).
The ARCOS cable network interconnects the United States and 18 countries in the Pan-Caribbean Central America providing the regions only fully redundant, ring protected cable network.
