 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Lauren Oland coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Philip Dumont CEO of Ella Link. Philip welcome to JSA TV. Thank you very much Laura. Happy to be here. Well let's start off by telling our viewers about Ella Link. Please tell us about the company. Oh I put a little map here okay of what it is. It's a cable and in summary cable a lot of it is about geography. That cable connects for the first time since the telegraphic cables Europe was Latin America, South America. In fact we're the subsidy segments start in Cinch which is a little town 150 kilometers south of Lisbon and goes 6,000 kilometers down to Fort Eliza where it stops. That's the first built which we are going to finish construction somewhere around March, April next year. Wonderful a very exciting very exciting development. So with that underway and that development do you have any recent news or updates to share with our viewers at this year's ITW virtual event? In fact I think a lot of our customers were expecting this cable to arrive somewhere in January 2021 and COVID-19 has passed okay like for most of us and in fact we we have been looking at this with progress in certain areas like the CNES cable landing stations and has been able to progress significantly even during COVID-19. Unfortunately the manufacturing of the cable has been slowed down. Our supplier has been forced unfortunately to shut down its factory for two months and these two months you get them back into the plan. Unfortunately that's what it is but you don't see COVID-19 hopefully every year so we should we should be okay for a March, April as I said. Full steam ahead from here perfect. Yes exactly. So tell us what the remainder of the year looks like for LA Ling and beyond. I know that we're targeting next March, April but what can we expect to see from LA Ling moving towards that date and the rest of this year and beyond? I think this year at the end of the year is extremely important. There are many reasons to that. The first one is that on the construction side we are going to see effectively physically the cable arriving in different places. The Marine program is being secured now and we have the landing in CNES, the landing in Fort Elesa being scheduled after summer that is to say September, October up until December. So we'll see this very beautiful image of vessels the blue vessel of Alcatel Samaritan cable arriving to the beach with the divers and the orange boys that is ongoing that will happen and I think for everybody that has built a subsea cable this probably one of the very special events. So I'm looking forward to be on these beaches and enjoy that precious moment. That's for the construction side and the commercial side I think is also going to happen at the end of this year. We are going to make a formal commercial launch around October this year. We're going to see all the commercial material arriving to our customers. This is the time where we are going to be engaging with our customers on a large scale in order to be ready to activate our service on March, April next year. Very special happening is coming up towards the end of 2020 and moving targeting for March and April next year but lots to happen in 2020 for LLINK. So where can our viewers go to learn more and get all the latest news and updates? I think the first thing is the best is to contact us directly. We're a small team. If you're genuinely interested just send us a little email, call us. We're usually extremely available to discuss our cable. We like it very much. That's something that's taken a lot of our lives so we're available to talk and if you're just there and you want to know a bit more you go to the website www.ella.link. There is many information in that white papers, interviews, videos that I'm sure a lot of people that not familiar with the subsea cable construction will enjoy a lot. Fantastic. We'll go to the website, contact the LLINK team and that's how you reach them. We appreciate your time Phillip. It's been so great chatting with you and learning more about LLINK. Thank you. Thank you very much Laura. Thank you. Bye bye. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking.