Optical Connectivity

New World Network is a wholesale provider that offers advanced, high-speed bandwidth capacity to Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers.

New World owns an 88.2% undivided interest in the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System ("ARCOS"), an undersea broadband fiber-optic cable network. ARCOS is 8,600 km in length and connects the United States with Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

New World's co-owners in ARCOS include approximately 28 carriers throughout the region, including MCI Worldcom, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Avantel, CANTV and Verizon. This unique ownership structure combines the advantages of an independently owned company and the benefits of strategic partnerships with local carriers that provide landing rights, backhaul and interconnection to local networks.

The ARCOS SYSTEM The Americas Region Caribbean Optical - Ring System ('ARCOS') is an undersea fiber optic - cable system that was developed by New World Network Ltd. ('New World'). Together with a group of leading telecommunication companies, New World contracted for the construction of ARCOS to provide the most technically advanced communications network in the Caribbean region connecting U.S., Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico with service already underway.

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The efficient topology of ARCOS (physical ring) makes the network fully redundant, allowing ARCOS to automatically select the strongest signal for optimal transmission quality and reliability, while providing built-in real-time signal restoration. In the event of cable failure, network restoration is achieved via SNCP (Sub Network Connection Protection).The protection switching is almost immediate, service interruption is undetectable and traffic is not affected unless the system suffers multiple failures. Both signal paths (Working & Protect) are analyzed simultaneously and, if either side falls below the pre-established threshold, the path is switched in less than 50ms.

The network is an 8,600 km fully redundant ring, consisting of both repeatered and non-repeatered cable segments using state-of-the-art Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing ('DWDM') and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ('SDH') technology.The system is currently operating at 15 gigabits per second ('Gbps'), with a multiple upgraded design capacity of 960 Gbps. Traffic on the system experiences latency of < than 50 milliseconds under normal operation conditions.