SAm-1 (South America-1) is an optical submarine communications cable. It started operations in 2000, connecting the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Guatemala. In 2007, SAm-1 was extended to reach Ecuador and Colombia.

It has landing points in:

• Boca Raton, Florida, United States

• Isla Verde, Puerto Rico

• Fortaleza, Brazil

• Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Santos, São Paulo, Brazil

• Las Toninas, Argentina

• Valparaíso, Chile

• Arica, Chile

• Lurín District, Peru

• Máncora, Peru

• Puerto San José, Guatemala

• Puerto Barrios, Guatemala

• Salinas, Ecuador

• Barranquilla, Colombia

When approved in 2000, SAm-1 was to consist of four fiber pairs initially operating at 40Gbit/s in a self-healing ring configuration, expandable to 48 channels at 10Gbit/s each, for a total design capacity of 480Gbit/s, and with multiple upgrade capability using dense wavelength-division multiplexing up to 1.92 terabits per second.

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