EllaLink is a new submarine cable linking the European and South America with a latency <60 ms round-trip delay time between Portugal and Brazil.

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the Dunant submarine cable system delivering a capacity of 250 terabits per second.

Today we are introducing Equiano, our new private subsea cable that will connect Africa with Europe.

The growth of global Internet traffic has driven a drastic expansion of the submarine cable network, both in terms of the sheer number of links and its total capacity. Today, a complex mesh of hundreds of cables, stretching over one million kilometres, connects nearly every corner of the earth and is instrumental in closing the remaining connectivity gaps. Despite the scale and critical role of the submarine network for both business and society at large, our community has mostly ignored it, treating it as a black box in most Internet studies, from connectivity to inter-domain traffic and reliability.

People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean

Because of an ever-increasing demand for capacity, submarine cable system design is evolving and the wet plant equipment design and technology are facing new challenges.