The South America-1 Cable Network (SAm-1) is a nearly 25,000 km subsea fiber-optic cable ring surrounding Latin America, including 22,000 km of submarine cable and 3,000 km of terrestrial links across Argentina, Chile and Guatemala.

The SAm-1 cable system is privately owned and operated by Telxius.

The SAm-1 cable system consists of four fiber pairs, initially designed with a self-healing ring architecture, capable of carrying 48x10 Gbps each and a system capacity of 1.92 Tbps. The SAm-1 was ready for service in March 2001.

The SAm-1 cable system has been upgraded to support 100Gbps wavelength, with a system capacity of 20Tbps since 2012.

The SAm-1 has the following cable landing stations:

• Boca Raton, Florida, United States
• San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• Barranquilla, Colombia
• Fortaleza, Brazil
• Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
• Las Toninas, Argentina
• Valparaíso, Chile
• Arica, Chile
• Lurín District, Peru
• Máncora, Perur
• Manta, Ecuador
• Puerto San José, Guatemala
• Puerto Barrios, Guatemala