Sparkle Prompts New Level of Presence in Rome

Telecom Italia’s wholesale arm, Sparkle, has introduced the activation of a brand new level of presence (PoP) at one among cloud and web-hosting supplier Aruba’s Knowledge Centre in Rome. Sparkle’s new PoP was activated at Aruba’s Hyper Cloud Knowledge Centre (IT4), a expertise campus positioned on the Tecnopolo Tiburtino.

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New PoP at Aruba’s IT4 Knowledge Centre

Tecnopolo Tiburtino is a expertise district the place greater than 150 corporations function, starting from aerospace to ICT, in an surroundings designed to assist the expansion and improvement of latest corporations and start-ups.

Based on Sparkle, the knowledge centre campus covers an space of 74,000 sq. meters and, when absolutely operational, will home 5 impartial knowledge centres for a complete of 30 MW of IT energy. The primary of those knowledge centres (DC-A) is already ANSI/TIA Ranking 4 licensed. Designed to the very best resilience and effectivity requirements, it makes use of renewable vitality and superior cooling methods.

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Integration with BlueMed Submarine Cable System

The brand new PoP is built-in with BlueMed, Sparkle’s submarine cable system. BlueMed, a part of the Blue and Raman Submarine Cable Programs challenge, enhances connectivity throughout Europe, Africa, the Center East, and Asia, with landings in Rome, Genoa, Palermo, and Golfo Aranci.

The challenge, in collaboration with Google and different operators, extends so far as India and is a key initiative below the IMEC (India-Center East-Europe Financial Hall) from the G20 summit in 2023.

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BlueMed’s Open Structure

That includes an “open cable system” and “open touchdown station” structure, BlueMed affords high-speed connections with a capability exceeding 25 terabits per second (Tbps) per pair. This infrastructure helps the rising demand for worldwide interconnection capacities, the corporate mentioned.

“With the activation of the brand new PoP built-in with BlueMed, we intend to reply to the wants of corporations and operators that require massive worldwide interconnection capacities,” mentioned Sparkle. “We deliver Rome nearer to the world’s main connectivity change factors because of a singular, low-latency path to Marseille and Palermo, built-in with the principle submarine cables crossing the Mediterranean and different locations in Sparkle’s world community.”

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Complementing Present Factors of Presence

Sparkle said that the brand new PoP enhances its current factors of presence in Rome, enhancing the metropolitan ring’s connectivity and integrating with Sparkle’s world IP community, “Seabone.” This community affords IP and knowledge providers, together with DDoS safety and Digital NAP, offering safe and environment friendly connections for operators, ISPs, and content material suppliers.