Genaro García Domínguez, CEO of Internexa, said that the company will exceed the expectations of accommodating 800 GB of content in their data centers by 2013. Through September 2012, content centers, one in Colombia and two in Brazil, had hosted 250 GB of the main operators.
In a talk with Convergencialatina, García considered it difficult to estimate how much they would exceed the initial plan. "Internet flows like water: it is a new initiative that is beginning in the region, so expectations are changing." Internexa plans to interconnect regional ISPs and NAPs and by the end of 2012 expects to surpass 47,380 public networks (from blocks of IP numbers), equivalent to 9% of public networks worldwide.
The future of the business led the company to open a third content center in Peru and "soon we will be opening one in Santiago de Chile" advanced García. "In Chile we want to double the size of the network to reach a larger market. They have just put up the second ring and the third will be ready later this year."
At the same time, the company has a connection with all headers of submarine cables with a link to Colombia, Peru and Chile, while it negotiates similar initiatives in Argentina and Brazil.
According to Garcia, the project to link the network in Argentina in partnership with Arsat is on track but "the state company is still in the process of defining the construction of their networks." In Brazil, Internexa is currently negotiating with at least six operators to establish a redundancy scheme. Internexa in the next five years expects to achieve in the Brazilian market a 21% in data transport and Internet access. For that, we have invested US$ 30 million in a fiber optic network spanning 21,000 kilometers throughout the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Garcia welcomed the fiber optic project driven regional governments of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and pointed out that the company intends to join the initiative. "We have good dialogue with the leaders, focusing on the same goals as Internexa: to migrate Internet to the region." However, stresses that UNASUR’s work plan in 2012 had little progress.
The same thing happens with plans in Central America and Mexico. "We have studied a Central American interconnection network with Mexico, to provide content to the Mexican region as well as have a new land route to the United States." However, this project depends on the implementation of the Mesoamerican Information Highway (in Spanish: Autopista Mesoamericana de la Información, AMI), a laying developed on the Central American electric grid. The AMI, which will become operational in 2013, is developed by the regional joint venture REDCA, which involves ISA, owner of Internexa.