EllaLink, a proposed submarine cable system promises to bring the most direct fiber connectivity between Brazil and Europe.
EMACOM – Telecomunicações da Madeira – announced the signing of a contract to develop the system with direct links to the islands of Madeira. The expected ready-for-service is 2020.
EllaLink will be a 3 fiber pair systems linking Southern Europe (Sines – Lisbon – Madrid) to LATAM (Fortaleza – Sao Paulo). Three intermediate branches are also being planned to land in Cabo Verde, the Canary Islands and Madeira. The main section of the cable traveling from Sines to Fortaleza is approximately 5900 km.
