News and BusinessTIM’s international service provider Sparkle has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable coherent technology to enhance its new Mediterranean and European optical backbone, Nibble. Sparkle says that deploying Infinera’s ICE6 solution will enable it to launch new 400 GbE services over its existing infrastructure while boosting its network capacity by up to 54%, as demonstrated in a […]
News and BusinessInternational service provider Sparkle, part of Italy’s TIM Group, is to build two new submarine cable systems in collaboration with Google and other companies. Blue will connect Italy, France, Greece and Israel, while Raman will connect Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and India. Each system will be equipped with 16 fibre pairs and utilise concepts […]
News and BusinessInternational service provider Sparkle, and Ciena have announced the upgrade of Sparkle’s 10,476km fibre on the Curie submarine cable, using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) 800G programmable solution, to improves capacity and speed on the Chile to U.S. route. Sparkle will also have direct connectivity between data centres in the U.S. and Chile using Ciena’s […]
News and BusinessGlobal Cloud Xchange (GCX) and Sparkle have extended their partnership by adding new spectrum capacity over the Flag Atlantic (FA-1) transatlantic system connecting Paris and London to New York. Under the agreement, GCX will provide additional capacity on the current transatlantic connectivity, enabling Sparkle to offer faster and more reliable City2City services and Seabone IP […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera, a global supplier of innovative networking solutions, has announced that Sparkle is deploying Infinera’s XT-3600 for its Nibble Network, a new ultra-long-haul photonic backbone connecting Sicily with major points of presence and data centres in Europe. Sparkle describes itself as “the first international service provider in Italy”. It has, earlier this month, June, 2019, […]