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Aiming to consolidate efforts to guarantee the high-speed connectivity of Central America and its connection to the rest of Latin America through the BELLA Project (Building Europe Link to Latin America), RedCLARA Executive Director Luis Eliécer Cadenas, visited Mexico and its national advanced network, RedCUDI, during the first half of October.

During his stay, the CEO of CLARA was welcomed by the Director of RedCUDI and president of CLARA Council, Carlos Casasús, to whom he granted an interview. "The BELLA project will favor CUDI member institutions by reducing costs and accessing bandwidths in both the Commercial Internet and the Academic Internet, as well as facilitating regional cooperation in science and technology, which is indispensable for the development of advance of the entire region", said Cadenas.

One of the results of the Director’s visit to the North American country was the ratification, by the Mexican Cooperation Agency, of the commitment to finance the construction of fiber rings in the capitals of Central America, which will allow connecting a substantial number of universities to the network and thus significantly increase the cooperation projects between universities and Mexican research centers with Central American universities.

The BELLA project seeks to establish a high-capacity, scalable and long-term network that will allow RedCLARA to ensure that Latin American academic networks have full access to the undersea capacity that BELLA is acquiring through the new submarine cable between Europe and Latin America. This will be achieved through the updating and integration of RedCLARA's optical telecommunications infrastructure in South America, transforming it into an optical network through the synergy generated among the academic networks of the region, increasing the capillarity and the efficiency of services to these communities.