 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell and we're here today at ITW 2019 in Atlanta. I have the pleasure today to be meeting with Philippe Dumont, CEO of Ella Link. Thank you so much for joining us and I'd love to hear a little bit about the project you're working on. Okay, so thank you very much for this interview. It just gives me the occasion to speak a bit more about Ella Link. Ella Link is a submarine cable that starts in Europe, actually in Portugal, a bit north of Lisbon and goes directly to Brazil and reach Fortaleza, which is a big hub for a submarine cable in this world. It's a four fiber pair system and along the route going to Fortaleza, we today stop in Madura, the beautiful island of Madura. And after we stop in Capo Verde and from Capo Verde on, we cross the Atlantic, the ref and straight on to Fortaleza. Wow, it's an amazing route. There's a lot of things involved in doing a project of that scale. Are you on schedule? Are you where you want to be with everything? Yeah, this project has been, we say, CIF put into force the 31st of December last year, 2018, and it's scheduled to be in service by the end of 2020, December 2020. At this moment we are on the survey part of the construction. That means that there are two vessels. One has started by the Brazilian waters and it's moving to the European coast, and that's about finished. And another vessel will start in Brazil to do all the survey waters. And that's going to stop more or less, say, in August, September timeframe. So we are two-third into the survey, right on schedule. No delays are being recorded at this moment. That's all fantastic news. So far so good. So far so good, right? And I also understand that you have some new independent board members. Can you tell us a bit about that? Yes, so our cable is kind of reaching out to another continent, I mean from Europe to South America. We figured that the board should be reflecting that. So we've put on board two ex-CEOs of two major companies. One is coming from Sparkle. His name is Alessandro Talota. And Sparkle has big network in South America. And the other ex-CEO of Telsus for the cable part, and that's Alberto Orcaro. These two people have accepted to join the Alleling Board. Their first board is going to be in Dublin, the 17th of July. And we're very happy to have them with us. Well, so thanks so much for sharing with us all these updates. We're going to be so excited to follow this as you keep moving forward on schedule and according to your plans. Can you tell our viewers where they can go to learn a little bit more about Alleling? Well, there are two media, so to speak, where you can find information. The first one is our website, www.ela.link. And the second thing is on LinkedIn. We put some great stories. We've been doing a great stop of our survey vessel in Madeira. We had pictures and video. This was fantastic. That's in LinkedIn. So just click and like our page on LinkedIn, and that's going to be already a lot. Thank you, Philippe, so much for joining us today. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here at ITW. Happy networking.