The Board approved a new communication system for OPALCO using fiber optics. BPA laid a new cable between Anacortes and Lopez Island and signed a 30-year agreement with OPALCO to lease 12 fibers to the Co-op for a one-time fee equal to the cost of manufacturing those fibers. The Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable of 8,400 kilometers that extends between the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica. The Americas Region Caribbean Optical -Ring System (ARCOS-1) is a 8,700 km submarine cable system connecting 24 landing points in 15 countries, including the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa. ARCOS-1, formally known as the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-Ring System, is a submarine fiber-optic cable system approximately 8,700 kilometers in length that connects 24 landing points across 15 countries and territories in the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America, providing. January 23, 2002-- The 9,000-kilometer optical-ring system links 15 countries including Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. Corning Cable Systems has completed ARCOS1, the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System.
