Sparkle Launches The First Green Data Center In Greece Sparkle puts into operation its fourth data center in the Country, built to meet the needs of Carriers, OTTs and Enterprises Sparkle Press Release September 1, 2021 Rome & Athens - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announces [...]
Sparkle Selects Infinera’s ICE6 800G Solution Boosting Its Nibble Mediterranean and European Optical Backbone Capabilities Infinera Press Release August 4, 2021 San Jose, Calif. – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that Sparkle, the international service provider of TIM Group and among the top 10 global operators, selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable coherent technology to enhance its new Mediterranean [...]
Sparkle to build Blue and Raman Submarine Cable Systems in Collaboration with Google The systems set a new reference in terms of diversification, scalability and latency to communication routes between Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia Sparkle’s BlueMed further extends by sharing the wet components of the Blue system and adding new branches [...]
Sparkle Illuminates Its U.S.-Chile Submarine Cable with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Sparkle Press Release July 13, 2020 Rome / Hanover - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, announce the upgrade of Sparkle’s 10,476km next-generation fibers on [...]
Sparkle Adds Fiber Pair on Google’s Curie Submarine Cable to Its Assets in the Pacific Sparkle Press Release May 6, 2020 Rome - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announces the enhancement of its American backbone boosting its Pacific routes with a new fiber pair on Curie [...]
Sparkle Enhances its Sicily Hub Open Data Center with DE-CIX Remote Peering Capabilities Sparkle Press Release December 3, 2019 Rome - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, has enhanced its Sicily Hub in Palermo with DE-CIX remote peering capabilities. Sicily Hub is a next generation open data [...]
Sparkle Selects Djibouti Data Center as Its IP Hub in Africa Sparkle Press Release July 12, 2019 First Tier 3 carrier-neutral data center, Djibouti will allow Sparkle to deliver high performance IP and capacity services in East and South Africa Rome - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten [...]
Sparkle to Invest on the Deployment of BlueMed: The First Submarine Cable Connecting Palermo with Genoa up to Milan Sparkle Press Release April 12, 2019 First phase of a wider investment plan to consolidate Sparkle’s leadership in the Mediterranean and strengthen Italy's role as digital gateway between Africa, Middle East, Asia and Europe Rome - Sparkle, [...]
By TI Sparkle Press Release October 24, 2017 Rome, Italy and Valletta, Malta - Sparkle, the international services arm of TIM Group and among top 10 global wholesale operators, and GO plc, the market leading communications services provider in Malta, have upgraded the Italy-Malta bilateral cable and introduced 100GB transmission technology. The upgrade is in [...]
By Reuters September 14, 2017 PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is considering several options for its Sparkle unit including selling the subsidiary or making it a separate entity within Telecom Italia that would remain under Italian leadership. Top investor Vivendi has tightened its grip on Telecom Italia and Rome wants to keep powers [...]