BELLA celebrates EllaLink cable inauguration at EC’s Leading the Digital Decade event

BELLA Impact

Large data exchanges and high-capacity connectivity will enable the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to open a new window to the Universe

BELLA Topology

To be completed in 2021.

BELLA Impact

Without connectivity to a National Research and Education Network, an emergency worker in Latin America mapping a region of 500km2 could wait 60 minutes to download critical data. With the completion of BELLA in 2021, high-speed NREN connectivity will deliver that same data in just 7 minutes.

BELLA celebrates EllaLink cable inauguration at EC’s Leading the Digital Decade event

At this week’s Leading the Digital Decade, a two-day online event focused on Europe’s digital transformation towards 2030, the BELLA Programme welcomed on the first day the inauguration of the new 6,000km EllaLink

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1 June 2021: EllaLink will be launch at #DigitalEU2030

The EllaLink submarine cable system -that is part of the BELLA Programme- that will connect Europe & South America, will be inaugurated in the framework of the “Leading the Digital Decade 1-2 June 2021” event (J

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BELLA IN A NUTSHELL

BELLA: a future-proof connectivity solution between Europe and Latin America for the next 25 years.

About BELLA: Federico Ruggieri, Director of GARR, Italy

TICAL2020 & 4th Latin American e-Science Meeting - Opening: The General Director of DG CONNECT - EC, Roberto Viola, gives his opening speech and points out the importance of BELLA in the Conference organized by RedCLARA.

About BELLA: Paola Arellano, Executive Director of REUNA, Chile

BELLA (Building the Europe Link with Latin America) provides for the long-term interconnectivity needs of European and Latin American research and education communities.

BELLA will achieve this through the procurement of a long-term Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) for spectrum on a submarine cable between the two regions, minimising latency. BELLA is also developing and deploying a 100Gbps-capable research and education network across Latin America.

BELLA is being implemented by a Consortium of Regional Research and Education Networks GÉANT (Europe) and RedCLARA (Latin America) and the National Research and Education Networks (NREN) of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

Funding for BELLA is provided by the European Union via three EC Directorates General (DG CONNECT, DG INTPA and DG DEFIS) and by the Latin America NREN community.