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Who is EllaLink?
EllaLink is a subsea cable operator that provides high-capacity fiber connectivity between Europe and Latin America for carriers, cloud providers, content networks, and institutional users.
- Subsea fiber-optic cable system linking Europe and Latin America
- Wholesale wavelength and capacity services for telecom and content providers (network connectivity)
- Private and low-latency routes engineered for latency-sensitive applications (network connectivity)
- Services for research, education, and governmental communities via dedicated connectivity models (research and education networking)
- Landing infrastructure and interconnection to carrier-neutral data centers and internet exchanges (colocation and interconnect)
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EllaLink operates a submarine fiber-optic cable system designed to create a direct data route between Europe and Latin America for wholesale and institutional customers. Its infrastructure targets carriers, cloud and content providers, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and research and education networks that require predictable capacity and latency characteristics for international traffic between the two regions.
The core offering is a transoceanic fiber backbone (network connectivity) that connects landing points in Europe and Latin America and provides onward connectivity into carrier-neutral data centers and interconnection ecosystems. Over this physical infrastructure, EllaLink delivers services such as managed spectrum, high-capacity wavelengths, and bulk bandwidth tailored for integration into carrier backbone networks, cloud regions, content delivery infrastructures, and academic network backbones.
Architecturally, the EllaLink system is based on submarine Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology (optical transport) with multiple fiber pairs engineered for terabit-scale capacity. The system uses coherent optical transmission, repeaters along the subsea route, and terminal equipment located in cable landing stations and partner facilities. This architecture aligns with standard subsea cable design used by global carriers and is compatible with common optical transport platforms deployed in terrestrial and metro networks.
From a protocol and service perspective, EllaLink supports typical wholesale transport constructs, such as wavelength services at standardized line rates (optical transport), which customers can integrate into IP/MPLS cores, Ethernet aggregation networks, or cloud interconnect architectures. The cable’s direct routing between Europe and Latin America avoids intermediate continental hops, which can reduce end-to-end latency compared with multi-segment routes that traverse North America or other regions.
For enterprise and institutional environments, EllaLink functions as the underlying international transport layer that supports cloud workloads, video distribution, financial and trading applications, collaboration platforms, and large-scale data replication between data centers across the Atlantic. Research and education networks can use the system to support data-intensive science, cross-continental collaboration, and dedicated capacity arrangements, often via specialized consortia or connectivity frameworks.
In marketplace and directory taxonomies, EllaLink fits into categories such as subsea cable operator, international wholesale connectivity provider, and optical transport infrastructure provider. Its active solution areas include subsea backbone capacity (network connectivity), wavelength and spectrum services for carriers and content providers (optical transport), low-latency routes for latency-sensitive use cases, and tailored connectivity options for research, education, and governmental stakeholders (research and education networking).
Our description of EllaLink. Updated December 2025.
