Convergencia Research, Consultoría especializada en Latinoamérica y Caribe
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

2015 Argentina Internet Map

Cabase grows, Telefonica remains leader and Arsat not appear.

2015 Argentina Internet Map - Credit: © 2015 Grupo Convergencia
2015 Argentina Internet Map - Credit: © 2015 Grupo Convergencia

In the new version of Internet map in Argentina, Telefonica (marked in green) has 258 customers and supplier remains the most used ISPs in the country. The following, in descending order, Telecom and Silica Networks and then IFX and Claro.

In early September, the network of NAPs Cabase reached 206.1 GB traffic, an increase of 25% over the 165 GB that shown in the previous edition of the map. Only the central Nap, Buenos Aires, traffic 136.6 GB among its 64 members.

And are 15 points of traffic exchange Internet Camera, four more than last year. The additions are Bariloche (with Arlink, Baritel, cooperative El Bolson, Quasar Computing and Silica Netwoks), Junin (with About, General Arenales, Multivision, Municipality of Junín, Red Power, SYT and Northwestern National University), Puerto Madryn (with Arlink, MadrynTV, Node Net, Red One, cooperative Puerto Madryn, Silica Networks and Cable Hogar Alvarez) and San Luis (with Arlink, Global Technology, SideCom, Silica Networks and the University of San Luis).

Additionally new names within the NAPs that give clues to the increasing internationalization of the contents appear. A previous foreign members as Google, Akamai and Antel (Uruguay), now we add the central routing hosting two companies abroad, CDNetworks (hosting of Samsung) and Cloudflare (where the contents of Taringa are housed, among others). Also this year the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and the judiciary of the nation joined in the central NAP. In the central routing it is also connected with Arsat, to distribute the contents of TDA and the Government.

The next points are projected interconnection of Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Resistance / Corrientes, Sunchales, Parana, Columbus, Olavarria, Santa Rosa, Viedma / Carmen de Patagones, Trelew and Comodoro Rivadavia.

Other associations to lower the cost of traffic, as Nodosud and Coopenet continue to have relevance in this sample. The latter takes 4.8 GB, with 3,2GB 2014.

Another node that was created last year, ARCOOP (Regional Association of Public Service Unions) in Cordoba, put two entities at 11 he had.

It is expected to start this year Arsat be a major player in this map, since, as was heard repeatedly from government circles, 2015 would be the year of the lighting Federal Fiber Optic Network (Refefo). But according to the survey Convergence, only two ISP you are buying capacity.

In December last year in an act Arsat announced the first leg of the Refefo lit and the signature of the first contracts connectivity. But of the seven companies that signed contract (Citarella, PXT, AVC, municipality of San Antonio de Areco, and cooperatives Benavidez, Tortuguitas and Todd), only it was learned that only came to connect with the state network: cooperative Benavidez, adjacent to the headquarters of the Arsatr, which recently was acquired in August 50 MB to increase its capacity.

Other entities that participated in the signing of contracts Convergencia explained that they could not even connect to the REFEFO for the delay of the works, disinformation and disorganization of the company.

Although they do not find much difference in price with other suppliers, the advantage that highlight those aspiring access the carrier state is the contract in pesos. All other suppliers sold the dollar bandwidth. Another ISP that already buys Arsat is Dattalink, Santa Fe company, which since last August 50 MB access.

Lots of ISPs who answered the survey for the preparation of the Internet map 2015 highlighted that are applying fiber estatañ company. For example, Diego de Alvear, Santa Fe, cooperative node Arsat has installed in the field of cooperative pending the final connection. As expressed, are captives of Telecom, since they could not grow due to lack of capacity and expect to Arsat to expand. Telecom provides only 6 MB. Other Kaanit or cooperative as Facundo Quiroga also expected. They wish to state enterprises and awaiting connection, such as La Rioja Sapem Telecommunications, which has planned in the first stage connected in the provincial capital of which will be distributed to the rest of the province.

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