Fortaleza: The emergence of a network hub

Digitalisation, accelerated by the pandemic, has brought opportunity for companies to expand their businesses beyond geographic location and considerably affected networks around world. Cloud services have a better acceptance nowadays, it is foreseen that this industry will grow exponentially in following years. With more distributed need support customers different locations, model of one-single server big financial centres become outdated tend look alternatives meet needs, seems be case with Fortaleza, Brazil. several submarine cables connections available, city stood out as possible hub regions, what paper explores. Making use real traffic data through looking glasses, we established latency classification ranges from exceptionally low high analysed 800 latencies Roubaix, Fortaleza Sao Paulo Miami, Mexico City, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Prague, Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires Luanda. We found non-developed countries dependence on United States route Internet traffic. Despite this, proves an alternative serving regions relatively latencies.