St. Maarten Puerto Rico-1 or SMPR-1 is an 8-pair non-repeated Submarine communications cable, submarine telecommunications cable system of 375 km which uses Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology to link St. Maarten and Puerto Rico.
It has Cable landing point, landing points in:
* 6 pairs for St. Maarten International Telephone company (SMITCOM)'s facilities in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, Philipsburg, St. Maarten
* 2 pairs for Dauphin Telecom's facilities on Baie Longue beach, in the Collectivity of Saint Martin, French part of St. Martin
*Ultracom's facilities in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
The initial capacity on the SMPR-1 is 2.5 Gbit/s per fiber and is expandable to 20 Gbit/s on 8 fibers.
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Coriant hiT 7300 DWDM Long-haul platform The platform is up-gradable to 40 Gbit/s per wavelength. which brings the maximum capacity to 240 Gbit/s for the Dutch side.
The platform has recently been upgraded to 10 Gbit/s and now provides over 5 Gbit/s of IP transit to St.Maarten.
Submarine communications cables in the Caribbean Sea
Netherlands–United States relations
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