Sparkle brings BlueMed cable to Crete

Press Launch

With the touchdown in Chania, the corporate strengthens Greece’s place as a digital hub for Web visitors between Europe, Africa, the Center East and Asia

Sparkle, the primary worldwide service supplier in Italy and among the many prime world operators, introduced this morning the touchdown of the BlueMed submarine cable in Chania (Greece) throughout a press convention hosted on the Residence of the Ambassador of Italy in Athens and attended by Paolo Cuculi, Ambassador of Italy, Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance, Alessandro Pansa, Chairman of Sparkle, Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle, Daniele Mancuso, CEO of Sparkle Greece, Nikos Konstantinidis, Head of Open Hub at Sparkle and moderated by Stella Tsitsoula, Communication Advisor for ICT and CEO of RED.comm.

BlueMed is Sparkle’s new cable connecting Italy with France, Greece and several other nations bordering the Mediterranean. It’s a part of the Blue & Raman Submarine Cable Programs inbuilt partnership with Google and different operators that stretch additional within the Center East as much as Mumbai, India.

With 4 fibre pairs and an preliminary design capability of greater than 25 Terabits per second (Tbps) per pair, BlueMed affords high-speed Web connections and high-performance options to Web Service Suppliers (ISPs), carriers, telecom operators, content material suppliers, enterprises, and establishments to assist the rising wants and digital evolution of the linked nations.

Laying started in 2023 with the primary Tyrrhenian trunk from Genoa to Palermo and with branches to Marseille and Bastia (France), Golfo Aranci (Sardinia), Pomezia (Rome). From Palermo, the cable crossed the Strait of Messina to succeed in the Greek island of Crete from the place it’s going to proceed with additional branches within the Mediterranean as much as Aqaba in Jordan. The Tyrrhenian and the Center Japanese terrestrial sections are in full operation, whereas additional Mediterranean landings and the complete operation from Genoa to Aqaba are anticipated by this yr.

In Crete, BlueMed reaches Sparkle’s knowledge centre in Chania, a cable touchdown station interconnected with the island’s terrestrial networks and Sparkle’s MedNautilus community (with connections to mainland Greece, Turkey, and Italy). Sparkle is additional creating the hub to accommodate different submarine cable tasks together with GreenMed that may cross the Adriatic Sea connecting Italy to Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey, thus making a diversified, low latency route between Central Europe, the Balkans and the Central and Japanese Mediterranean nations.

Paolo Cuculi, Ambassador of Italy, commented: “The arrival in Greece of the BlueMed submarine cable represents a basic step within the technique of digital connectivity between Italy and its companions within the Mediterranean Basin, with the island of Crete as an essential strategic hub. Sparkle confirms itself as an absolute Italian excellence and a number one world participant in fostering the digital transition, basic for the sustainable improvement of our two nations.”

The Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, declared: “This is a vital milestone that marks a brand new period in connectivity and highlights the central position of Greece within the Mediterranean Sea, inserting Greece on the coronary heart of a digital route that bridges Europe, Africa, the Center East and Asia. It’s a essential infrastructure, which is able to considerably improve the capability and resilience of digital knowledge visitors, whereas underlining our dedication to the European Union’s strategic autonomy goal. Superior infrastructures equivalent to BlueMed may also assist different essential developments like “Daedalus” Hyper Efficiency Pc that promotes Greece to the forefront of computing innovation and analysis, supporting applied sciences equivalent to AI and large knowledge. The touchdown of the BlueMed cable displays all that we are able to obtain after we commit collectively to an essential aim.“

“With the touchdown of BlueMed in Crete, Greece is enabling a brand new digital route for Web visitors between Europe, Africa, the Center East and Asia,” mentioned Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle. “We now have been working in Greece for greater than 20 years and right here we’ve the talents and infrastructures wanted to develop it as a brand new Web hub of the Mediterranean, a task destined to develop additional sooner or later because of the touchdown of latest submarine cables.”

“With BlueMed, we strengthen our longstanding presence in Greece and reaffirm our dedication to fostering the event of a digital ecosystem more and more linked to the world,” added Daniele Mancuso, Chief Advertising & Product Administration at Sparkle and CEO of Sparkle Greece. “With 4 knowledge facilities within the nation and a large portfolio of digital companies together with IoT and networking options, we guarantee Greek enterprises and establishments environment friendly communications each inside their websites and with their exterior ecosystems.”

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