The company confirms it has selected Infinera and its ICE6 technology for the next stage of the project. This Infinera technology will be used to light the network, creating a direct single hop transmission path between data centres on each continent.
In addition, Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology will enable EllaLink to offer advanced customer products and services, supporting over 100Tbps between Portugal and Brazil. It will also support a 30Tbps link from Portugal to Madeira, with an additional 40Tbps path between Portugal and Morocco in the future.
“I am proud to announce that we have successfully completed the 6,000km submarine cable installation, providing EllaLink with the robust system it needs to support the network through its lifetime,” said Diego Matas (pictured), chief operations officer at EllaLink.
“Infinera’s ICE6 solution is an ideal fit for us, outperforming other available 800G equipment. Coupled with our differentiated fibre routes, Infinera and ICE6 will provide us the means to offer our customers advanced products and services from day one, in May 2021.”
Using Infinera’s GX Series Compact Modular platform, EllaLink can provide its customers with the bandwidth needed to meet growing data demands with low-latency services in a single hop between endpoints.
EllaLink also plans to use ICE6 to boost the capacity on its long-haul terrestrial network between Sines, Lisbon, Madrid, and Marseille.
“Deploying Infinera’s 800G solution on EllaLink’s new network will provide a superior networking experience to their customers when connecting between Europe and Latin America,” added Nick Walden, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Infinera.
“Infinera’s open optical solution will enable EllaLink to offer new and differentiated services, helping to ensure their customers receive the highest level of service.”
Infinera’s ICE6 technology has a number of additional features, such as long-codeword probabilistic constellation shaping (LC-PCS) and intelligent power management, to name a few.
