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A major Latin American submarine cable network is being upgraded with 40G technology. Latin America Nautilus (LANautilus), Telecom Italia Sparkle Group Operations in the Americas, is integrating Ciena’s 40G optical networking solutions in order to increase its total network capacity, effectively quadrupling the amount of information transmitted per wavelength, and allowing faster support to service provider and enterprise customers in the Caribbean, South and Central America, all the while using its existing fibre infrastructure to support growing bandwidth requirements.