Angola Cables and EllaLink Collaborate to Significantly Reduce Latencies for Peering, IP Transit, and Content Sharing Between Latin America and Europe
Angola Cables, EllaLink Press Release
March 14, 2024
São Paulo, Brazil 13 March 2023: An agreement between Angola Cables and EllaLink, combining transmission capacity on the Monet and EllaLink subsea cables will see a dramatic latency reduction for Peering and IP Transit services from Brazil to Europe. The reduction in latency on the submarine route will reach up to 51% from São Paulo to Lisbon and 60% from Fortaleza improving the end-to-end connectivity options to the main data exchange markets in Europe from hubs such as London and Amsterdam, to Frankfurt or Madrid.
With a transatlantic latency of less than 60~ms, the EllaLink submarine cable delivers low latency, secure, high-capacity connectivity between Latin America and Europe, linking Sines, Lisbon, Madrid, and Marseille, in Europe, with Fortaleza, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
Angola Cables CEO, Ângelo Gama, says that such latency reductions hold considerable benefits when it comes to content sharing, cloud services, financial services, gaming and entertainment. Any reduction in latency has a bearing on the effective throughput of the connections improving the real-time delivery of contents as well as the streaming of high-definition digital content that finally provide a better customer experience.
Gama added that these developments will enhance opportunities for Angola Cables customers in particular “to offer Peering and IP Transit services to deliver and promote contents for Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries on each side of the Atlantic – at the lowest available latencies.”
“This can help bring Latin American countries closer together and reach far wider international audiences from Miami in the US – where the Monet submarine cable lands, to South America with a direct connection through the EllaLink Submarine cable to hubs in Spain, Portugal and other main destinations across Europe and the UK.”
According to Philippe Dumont, CEO at EllaLink, both Angola Cables and EllaLink provide robust differentiation for international bulk data traffic: “”Our collaboration represents significant improvements in latencies in the markets served by Angola Cables using our uniquely diverse route that brings the continents of Europe and Latin America together.”
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About Angola Cables
Angola Cables is an internationally established ICT and digital solutions and network services provider and has been ranked as the most interconnected operator* on the African continent. Through our integrated IP networks and data centres, we provide extensive, low-latency, direct access connectivity to the largest IXPs, Tier 1 operators and global content providers.
Through our owned, high-capacity SACS, Monet, WACS and third-party submarine cable networks, the company directly connects to more than 30 Points of Presence and Internet Exchange Points in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Angola Cables also operates two data centres, AngoNAP Fortaleza Tier III (Brazil) and the data centre, AngoNAP Luanda (Angola), and manages PIX in Brazil and Angonix Angola – one of the largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Africa. Through our partners and resellers in selected markets we offer advanced and secure connectivity solutions and services to a range of customers across multiple industries.
*The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) 2022
For more information, visit the website: www.angolacables.co.ao
About EllaLink
EllaLink is an optic fibre submarine cable system offering secure high-capacity connectivity on a unique low-latency transatlantic route serving the growing needs of the Latin American and European markets. The EllaLink network directly connects Brazil and Europe, linking the major hubs of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza with Lisbon, Madrid and Marseille.
The EllaLink System has been built with state-of-the-art coherent technology, initially offering 100Tbps of transatlantic capacity over four direct fibre pairs between Europe and Brazil. EllaLink is a privately funded and independent company committed to providing products and services on a Carrier-Neutral and Open-Access basis. Marguerite, a pan-European infrastructure investor active in the renewables, energy, transport and digital transformation sectors, is the main shareholder of EllaLink.
Media contacts:
Clara Casanova (+351) 969 894 405 [email protected]
For more information, visit: ella.link
