Alcatel-Lucent  has signed a contract with Brasil Telecom GlobeNet, who owns and operates GlobeNet - a submarine network serving the Americas - to upgrade the existing 22,000 km system linking the United States with Latin America.

Alcatel-Lucent will upgrade the submarine section, along with the respective landing points, linking Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza), Venezuela (Maiquetía), Bermuda (St.David’s), and USA (Boca Raton, FL and Tuckerton, NJ). In Rio de Janeiro, the submarine network integrates with the terrestrial optical infrastructure of GlobeNet’s parent company, Brasil Telecom(Bovespa: BRTO3/BRT04 and NYSE: BTM). When completed in the first quarter of 2008, the project will almost double the existing capacity over the entire network.