connecting europe to latin america
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Secure | Fast | Diverse | Open
EXPRESS OPTICAL
PLATFORM BETWEEN
EUROPE &
LATIN AMERICA
RFS June 2021
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Secure | Fast | Diverse | Open
The new route revolution
A unique diverse geographical route bringing up to 50% latency reduction betweenLatin America and Europe with direct City-to-City connectivity
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EllaLink route challenges our perception of the world due to predefined Mercator projection representations. Latin
America & Europe are closer than we think and EllaLink brings the continents even closer.
The new route revolution
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The proven diversityinfrastructure
Diverse fibre routes from Sines to Madrid, including a unique express route to the south
BackhaulEurope
Diverse and robust southern landing point from the traditional congested landing points
PortugalLanding
Unique routing as the first high-capacity cable directly connecting Europe with Latin America
SubseaRoute
Optimized landing in Fortaleza avoiding cable crossings with a new dedicated BMH
BrazilLanding
Diverse paths through a partner from Fortaleza to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
BackhaulLATAM
EllaLink has focussed in building an infrastructure that provides a diversesolution for each aspect of the network from data centres to data centres
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EllaLink closes the gap of the Southern Europe Data corridor
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to createglobal reach
ecosystem1
Connecting continents5
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Services range
Serving Europe, Latin America & Beyond, with the fastest route between Europe and Latin America
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Open Spectrum
Managed Spectrum
Man
ag
ed
Serv
ices
MANAGED SERVICES
ASSET OWNERSHIP
Low Latency/Flexible
Capacity 1G/10G/100GEllaLink’s Open optical
platform gives customers
the flexibility to choose
from full spectrum & asset
ownership to a managed
infrastructure model,
without sacrificing control
and pricing
EuropeanBackbone &PoPs
▪ Diverse high availability fiber infrastructure
▪ Integrated to subsea design
▪ Single DWDM hop from Madrid/Lisboa to Fortaleza
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Transport & Managed
Colocation
Type 1
Full Service
PoPCustomer interconnection
Type 2
Network
PoP
Partnership PoPs
Type 3
Virtual PoP
Lisboa
Sines
Madrid
Marseille
LS1 Type 1
MD2 Type 1
MAD2/3 Type 2
MRS2/3 Type 3
Sines CLS Type 1
PROTECTED RING SEGMENTS
▪ Sines to Lisbon 178km
▪ Sines to Madrid 760km
▪ Madrid to Lisbon 670km
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Latin America Backbone & PoPs
▪ Off net high availability capacity secured through our partner via two subsea routes (BRUSA, SAm-1)
▪ Connectivity with the major data centers in Fortaleza, Rio & São Paulo
▪ Onward connectivity with our partner towards any place in the Americas
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Rio de
Janeiro
São Paulo
Fortaleza
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Connectivity to
Caribbean, North & Central America
Connectivity to
Uruguay, Argentina & Chile
Fortaleza CLS
Rio de Janeiro RJ2
Sao Paulo SP3/4
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Stakeholders
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A Financial Sponsor backed by European Community
Pan-European infrastructure investment fund Marguerite II became the equity sponsor of EllaLink in May 2018
The project is fully financed without requirement for debt, providing for solid financials
Mandate
Build a diversified portfolio
with balanced allocation of capital between sectors and countries in transport; Energy,
renewable, Telecom and water
Target Countries
▪ EU 28 countries
▪ Pre-accession countries; Albania, Serbia, FYROM, Kosovo and Montenegro
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Core InvestorsEIB, ICO (Spain), CDC (France), BGK
(Poland), CDP (Italy), KFW (Germany)
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Substantial Customer Commitments pre-RFS
May 2018
EMACOM (part of EEM)
signed a €13M contract
for dedicated fiber pair linking Madeira to the
mainland Portugal
August 2018
EllaLink signed €25M
contract from the Bella
Consortium (GEANT and redCLARA)
December 2018
$25M agreement with
Cabo Verde Telecom
signed for branch to Cabo Verde
June 2019
The Gvt of Mauritania
signed an agreement for
a branching Unit fronting Nouadhibou
October 2019
Capacity and cable
landing station
agreement in Fortaleza
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An International and seasoned Management Team
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Philippe DumontCEO
Philippe has over 20 years of international experience in the Telecoms industry on supplier and customer side, as well as working closely with PE and infrastructure funds.
Prior to his involvement in the project as CEO of the holding Company EulaLink, Philippe was the President & CEO of ASN (Alcatel Lucent Submarine Networks) after holding several executive positions inside Alcatel Lucent.
Philippe has an engineering degree from the Arts & Metiers and an MBA from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris.
He is fluent in French, English and Italian.
Diego Matas
Chief Operations
Diego Matas comes with over 20 years of experience in the international telecommunications and data centre business.
Diego has developed his career working for major firms such as Interoute (as CEO of the Spanish Ops), Global Crossing and Cable & Wireless in senior positions, and as a consultant for PE companies on telecom infrastructure and cloud services.
Diego has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Parks Collegue, St. Louis U) and a Post graduate degree in Switching architectures and data transmission (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid).
Diego speaks fluently Spanish and English
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Rui CarrilhoField Engineering &
Ops Director
Rui has spent more than 28 years in Telecom Industry with experience from military aircraft’s down to the most recent submarine technology, DWDM, Ethernet and MPLS Networks.
In particular, Rui has worked for 16 years in Tata Communications as Operations Manager of the WACS system and has led a team of Network Field Engineers and subcontractors that support the company operations in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique countries and, Cape Town and Durban regions.Rui speaks Portuguese, fluent English & Spanish.
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Vincent GatineauChief Sales & Mktg
Vincent has been a member of Alcatel Submarine Networks’ Sales and Marketing team for 9 years. He has been the lead Sales person following the EllaLink project since its inception.
Previously, Vincent held various international positions within the Alcatel-Lucent Group in India and Chile.
Vincent is a graduate of the Lille Douai Telecom Mines Institute.
He is fluent in French, English and Spanish.
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Pablo MartinCFO
Pablo benefits from over 10 years as CFO of Subsea Cable Operator under several LBO and ownership.
Prior to joining EllaLink, Pablo has the CFO of IslaLink, Spain successively owned by Cube and EQT where he developed a significant expertise in managing such infrastructures
Pablo holds an MBA at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese..
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EllaLinkConstruction Insights
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On Net Connectivity
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Committed
Underdevelopment
WS
S
WSS WSSWSS
Praia
Cabo Verde
French
Guyana
France
Praia
Grande
Brazil
Casablanca
MoroccoNouadhibou
Mauritania
Canary
Island
Spain
Funchal
Portugal
BU1
BU2 BU3
BU5
BU6BU4BU7
Planned extensions
Marseille
France
Barcelona
Madrid
Spain
Lisboa
Portugal
Sines
Portugal
São Paulo
Brazil
Rio
Brazil
Fortaleza
Brazil
Sines secured landing
Watch!EllaLink EllaLeaks S01E08 - Landing in Sines
▪ Southern marine route to avoid fishing area
▪ 1,5m burial up to 1 500m water depth
▪ 700m HDD shore-end for optimum protection
▪ Fronthaul protected zone
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New 10 000m2 land plot for a new build CLS, ready for data center expansion
Beach Manhole Co-ordinates
37°59'31.80"N
8°51'12.78"W
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Optimised successfulFortaleza Landing
Watch! EllaLink EllaLeaks S01E07 - Landing in Fortaleza
▪ Minimized cable crossings
▪ New dedicated BMH under construction
▪ Ultra short land route
▪ EllaLink « Open CLS » hosted in Telxius facility
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Beach Manhole Co-ordinates03° 44.360'38° 27.172'
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