News Our offers Our network About us Join us Contact us Customer Area Language ielo is scaling up ── Your neutral infrastructure operator dedicated to telecom professionals One year after its fundraising, IELO announces the launch of its long distance network covering the entire national territory. Learn more Growth project: to cover the first 95 major French cities ielo continues its development in France with nearly160 million euros of investmentin the next three years. IELO fiber network is the most modern and high-quality urban optical network on the French territory, deployed according to controlled procedures and designed in-house, the group’s trademark. Today it represents more than 4,500 km of cables covering 65 towns and Partner clients connect over 1,500 businesses. Thanks to DIF Capital Partners’ support, ielo plans to triple the footprint of its structuring network over the next year and through the deployment of more than 4,800 km in more than 95 French major cities and economic zones. This fiber infrastructure base, owned, deployed and operated on its own, will enable ielo group to propose new controlled products with high added value, covering the needs of all companies and thus complementing its flagship FTTO offer. To carry out this ambitious project, ielo is expanding its teams, in particular by creating regional field teams. The company will continue to grow , having today 250 employees and will hire 100 additional people on the next three years. Success Story ielo The ielo success story was born in 2016 from the merge between young French entrepreneurs and their network expertise - in terms of transport and nni, in one hand and ip transit on the other. In 4 years, the new entity ielo-liazo has experienced a very strong growth and has seen its coverage area increase from 4 to 40 agglomerations and from 10 to 300 towns. Claiming its status as a neutral operator on the wholesale market, the group achieved a turnover of 18 million euros in 2020 and had over 250 employees and 250 active partner customers. We are currently more than 250 employees and we have more than 400 customers. « Our role is to create and operate the necessary infrastructure base to our customers and partners, so that they can respond in a qualitative way to the growing demand of the Enterprise market. We will continue and accelerate, on a large scale, the development of our fiber infrastructure, while maintaining and improving what made ielo so successful: its independence, ethics and know-how ” Arthur Fernandez IELO President « DIF Capital Partners has been investing heavily for several years in the telecommunications sector in Europe and North America North, particularly in projects related to datacenters and optic fibers. This equity investment is therefore part of our strategy investment in the high potential digital infrastructure market, especially in the growing B2B market. We had identified IELO, one of the few players dedicated to wholesale infrastructures and the only one with the will to expand nationally, as the ideal partner. » Thomas Vieillescazes Associate and Country Manager @DIF Capital Partners DIF Capital Partners DIF Capital Partners is an independent European infrastructure fund with more than 6.7 billion euros in assets positioned on long-term infrastructure projects. The group has more than 135 people in its 9 offices in Amsterdam (Schiphol), Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Paris, Santiago, Sidney and Toronto. Send Contact Address 50 Ter rue de Malte 75011 Paris Phone number +33 (0) 1 82 28 82 82 Email info@ielo.net Infos News Our offers Our network About us Join us Contact us © ielo. All rights reserved