Digital infrastructure: from strategy to commissioning.

We support governments, multilateral institutions and companies across the full digital infrastructure cycle: we design the policy, structure the financing and deliver the project until it is operating. Four fronts: submarine cables, sovereign cloud, data centers and telecommunications policy.

Founded in 2018

4,100+ km of route studied

4 client types: government, multilateral, academia and private sector

Based in Santiago and Ottawa, working across Latin America

About Us

Founded in 2018, CA LATAM is a Chilean boutique digital infrastructure consultancy. We chose to do a few things: submarine cables, sovereign cloud, data centers and telecommunications policy. These are the fronts where a country decides its connectivity and digital sovereignty, and where accumulated experience matters more than firm size.

Our team has worked on national-scale connectivity projects: the Fibra Óptica Austral (Southern Fiber Optic), the feasibility study for the first fiber-optic cable to Antarctica and Chile’s Digital Agenda. The Antarctic cable study was commissioned by SUBTEL and funded by CAF. We know all three sides of the table: how a ministry decides, what a development bank requires and what a board needs to invest. Our focus is making sure every study ends in a project that can be built.

Our Clients

We work with four types of clients:

  • Governments: ministries, regulators and public telecommunications agencies
  • Multilateral institutions: development banks and international agencies
  • Educational institutions: universities and higher-education institutions
  • Companies: telecom operators and infrastructure investors
 
Strategic Partners
  • Pioneer Consulting: strategic partner in submarine cables
  • Salience Consulting: strategic partner in digital infrastructure and telecommunications
  • Code Avengers: strategic partner in EdTech
  • Red Cube: strategic partner in cybersecurity and technology development

Our Services

We do a few things, in depth: four fronts, each with products of defined scope, timeline and deliverable.

Submarine cables and fiber

connecting what is missing

  • +Feasibility studies: technical, legal, economic, environmental and governance.
  • +Bankable Project: technical and economic structuring for IDB/CAF financing.
  • +Owner’s Engineer / PMO: we represent the project owner before suppliers.
  • +CAF / IDB Pipeline: identifying and preparing portfolios of digital infrastructure projects that multilateral banks can finance.

From route design to operation: submarine and terrestrial routes, permits, IRU models and asset governance.

Sovereign cloud

data under your own jurisdiction

  • +Sovereign Cloud Strategy: data classification, residency requirements and governance model.
  • +Architecture and business model: public, private or hybrid sovereign cloud, and public-private partnerships.
  • +Adoption roadmap: migration of critical services with security and continuity.

We help governments and regulators decide which data must stay in the country, where and with what guarantees, without giving up the scale of the cloud.

Data centers

site, power and connectivity

  • +Data Center Site & Ready: site selection (power, climate, connectivity, permits).
  • +Digital Infrastructure Due Diligence: cables, fiber, towers and data centers.
  • +Commissioning: from concept to operation.

We assess strategic location (connectivity, power, climate and costs) with a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability.

Telecommunications policy

deciding with evidence

  • +Connectivity Radar 360 (6–8 weeks): gap diagnosis and prioritized investment map.
  • +Digital Roadmap (3–4 months): digital agenda with governance, KPIs and a financeable portfolio.
  • +ICT Regulatory Framework: regional benchmark, regulatory proposal and public consultation.
  • +Tenders and Competitive Bids: technical specifications, subsidies and bidder support.

We design policies, regulatory frameworks and tenders that the market can execute and the State can oversee.

Complementary capabilities

Applied AI for regulation and infrastructure operations (AI strategy and governance) · Digital education with Code Avengers, including the INACAP case.

Need an ongoing advisor? We offer a monthly strategic advisory retainer and act as local partner for international firms.

Why CA LATAM

1
Team experience
Team involvement in the Fibra Óptica Austral and in the feasibility study for the first cable to Antarctica.
2
Three-sector bridge
We speak the language of ministries, development banks and boards.
3
Senior boutique
Whoever signs the proposal delivers the project.
4
Partner ecosystem
Pioneer Consulting (submarine cables), Salience Consulting (digital infrastructure and telecommunications), Red Cube (cybersecurity) and Code Avengers (EdTech).
5
At the center of the digital hub
Chile is home to the Humboldt cable, the National Data Center Plan and the Antarctic agenda.
Our Projects

Digital infrastructure for the regions

Sala de equipos de fibra óptica del proyecto de conectividad digital

16 Tbps transmission capacity

Team experience · Fibra Óptica Austral
Hybrid submarine and terrestrial fiber-optic network linking Puerto Montt to Puerto Williams, expanding connectivity in the Los Lagos, Aysén and Magallanes regions. Juan Pablo Lefián, founder of CA LATAM, designed the project as Head of the Digital Agenda for the Government of Chile, before the firm was founded.

2,980 km
total network length
2,880 km
submarine route
536,000+
people served
Antarctic Cable Project

Feasibility study for the first fiber-optic cable to Antarctica

Technical, legal, economic, environmental and governance study commissioned by SUBTEL and funded by CAF (2025–2026). CA LATAM was the local counterpart of the Salience–Pioneer Consortium; Juan Pablo Lefián led the local team. The study has been delivered to SUBTEL and CAF; the challenges ahead are financing and public-policy decisions.

Cable submarino de fibra óptica del proyecto Fibra Óptica Austral

Digital Education · INACAP

Rollout of the Code Avengers platform to teach programming at INACAP, across 26 campuses throughout Chile. A “learning by doing” model that makes programming interactive and accessible, giving students hands-on experience from day one.

Chile’s Digital Agenda 2020

Team experience
Digital roadmap of the Government of Chile, launched in 2015: 63 measures across five pillars (digital rights, connectivity, digital government, digital economy and digital skills). CA LATAM team members took part before founding the firm: Juan Pablo Lefián in telecommunications and Jorge Alzamora in state modernization.

Clients and Partners

Organizations we work with

Salience–Pioneer Consortium
Consortium, Antarctic Cable study
INACAP
Higher education · 26 campuses
Red Cube
Cybersecurity and technology development
Code Avengers
EdTech · CA LATAM is its exclusive distributor in Chile
Kibernum IT Academy
SENCE training partner for Code Avengers (since 2019)
Our Team

Leadership with Regional Experience

Former Head of the Digital Agenda for the Government of Chile, where he led telecommunications and designed the Fibra Óptica Austral. Led the local team for the Antarctic cable study. Industrial Engineer, Master’s in Management of Technology and Industrial Companies, PMP.
Lawyer (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) with an LLM in Law & Tech (University of Ottawa). Worked on Chile’s Digital Agenda in state modernization; specializes in technology transfer, intellectual property and artificial intelligence.
Computer Engineer (UTFSM) with a Master’s in Cybersecurity (University of Barcelona). Former Head of Technology Development and Information Security Officer at SUBTEL. General Manager of Red Cube.
Technology consultant and university economics lecturer, with a master’s from Fordham University and a focus on the digital economy and infrastructure.

We have a multidisciplinary team and a network of senior consultants with track records in public agencies, multilateral institutions and infrastructure projects.

Ready to move from diagnosis to infrastructure that is up and running?

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