New Route of the Huge Networks Connects Brazil to Europe via Fortaleza and Form Redundancy Ring

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For years, much of the traffic leaving Brazil for Europe depended on a scale in the United States before crossing the Atlantic, a reflection of a geography of submarine cables historically concentrated on the east coast of the United States. According to NIC.br, the entity that manages the IX.br, the set of traffic exchange points of the country, the aggregate traffic at these points, reached in 2026 a record peak of 55 Tbps, of which about 36 T…