The AUGERACCESS project has been designed to improve the communications link between the Auger Observatory and the CLARA network in Argentina and hence to international networks. Over 7 Tbytes of data per year are created at the Observatory site and the desired transmission rate greatly exceeds the available transmission capacity between the Observatory and the city of Mendoza, about 400 km to the north. At present some of the data must be put on disk and hand-carried to Mendoza. This makes monitoring of the status of instruments at the Observatory extremely difficult. A link of at least 10 Mbps is required.

The plan is to replace the present link with a much faster one (different options are currently being explored as part of the AUGERACCESS activity) so that data can be easily sent to home institutions. Additionally, it will become possible to monitoring and control equipment at the site remotely from the Americas, Australia and Europe.