UFINET is a multinational

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company headquartered in

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. It operates a

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History

UFINET is a neutral, carrier of carrier's telecom company, created by

Unión Fenosa ''Unión Fenosa, S.A.'' was, until its acquisition by ''Gas Natural'' in 2009, a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution of gas and electricity. It installed capacity of 11,120 megawatts of power and 8.9 million custome ...

(formerly known as Unión Fenosa Redes de Telecomunicación) in 1998. In 2009, it merged with the company Desarrollo de Cable, which belonged to the company

Gas Natural Naturgy Energy Group S.A''.'', formerly ''Gas Natural Fenosa'' (), is a Spanish multinational natural gas and electrical energy utilities company, which operates primarily in Spain. The company's administrative headquarters are in Barcelona, while ...

, and this gave rise to Gas Natural Fenosa Telecomunicaciones (GNF Telecom). In 2014, CINVEN, an investment fund of private capital acquired the GNFT. The acquisition was carried out for a total of 510 million Euros. Since then, the company has traded as UFINET. In June 2018, ENEL acquired 21% of the company, while Cinven kept the remaining 79% Under the agreement, Enel X International has the right to exercise a call option to acquire the Sixth Cinven Fund’s stake between December 31st, 2020 and December 31st, 2021.

Business areas

UFINET provides telecommunication services through more than 70,000km of fiber optic network. Among the services provided are

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data transmission Data transmission and data reception or, more broadly, data communication or digital communications is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point o ...

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, co-location center, Ethernet (E-Line, E-Access, E-LAN, E-Tree), PDH/SDH7/SONET, Dark Fiber,

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(DIA, SOHO),

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(Satellite services),

FTTH Fiber to the ''x'' (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber op ...

(Fiber to the Home), Towering,

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services, Direct cloud connectivity and other services (CPE Lease, Remote Hands, etc.). UFINET is a MEF Carrier Ethernet 3.0 (CE 3.0) certified for E-LINE, E-LAN, E-TREE and E-ACCESS capacity services.

Countries covered

UFINET currently has a presence in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. It also uses the facilities of

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providers such as

CoreSite CoreSite, a subsidiary of American Tower, owns carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services to prolific spammers. As of June 24, 2022 the company owned 27 operating data center facilities in 10 markets comprising ...

, providing

network access point Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks. IXPs are generally located at places with preexisting ...

s (NAP) in the Americas, New York, Los Angeles and Dominican Republic.

References

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External links

UfinetUnión FenosaServicios Satelitales de UfinetCinvenEnel
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain Telecommunications companies of South America Companies based in Madrid