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big financial centres has become outdated and companies tend to look for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