Sparkle Greece


About Us


TI Sparkle Greece S.A. is part of Sparkle Group, a leading global telecommunication provider offering a full range of ICT solutions, global connectivity, services and capabilities through a state-of-the-art- backbone of over 600,000 kilometers worldwide. 

Sparkle’s Mediterranean submarine network spans over a distance of approximately 11,000 km linking Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and Israel. Throughout these countries and specifically in the cities of Catania, Athens (Metamorfosis and Koropi), Chania, and Istanbul, our company has privately owned Data Centers.

Sparkle Greece manages and operates the whole infrastructure within Greece, that is the backbone as well as the four Data Centers of Metamorfosis, Metamorfosis II and Koropi in Athens and Chania in Crete. 

Download PDF - Greece Data Centers Leaflet

Download PDF - Metamorfosis II Leaflet

 

Our Platform


Cloud Connect

Value proposition

The progressive adoption of cloud computing by Corporate Organizations has led to an evolution in their needs in terms of network infrastructure. In the past, server farms were hosted “in-house” in proprietary Data Centers, nowadays Enterprises tend to use applications provided in cloud or to virtualize their applications onto public, cloud-based, Data Centers reached through connectivity services.

Sparkle can address this Customers need through its Cloud Connect solution, which provides private connectivity to the public Cloud Providers Data Centers with better performances, more reliability, higher bandwidth, lower latencies, and higher security than typical connections over the Public Internet, and with a global coverage.

Description

Cloud Connect solution is a private and secure connectivity service, extending Customer network into the cloud capabilities of the main public Cloud Providers (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Oracle, IBM Cloud, SAP Hana, Salesforce) throughout the world, thus allowing Customer sites to exchange traffic with Customer resources in the public clouds with a network experience more consistent than Internet-based connections.

Cloud Connect can be a Layer 2 or layer 3 solution and is as easy as a new valuable destination of the Networking Solutions connectivity services Ethernet Suite, IP-VPN Suite and Carrier MPLS.

Product features

Cloud Connect solution is a private Layer 2 or Layer 3 solution, providing high reliability, guaranteed and scalable bandwidth, high speed options, lower latencies, and higher security than typical connections over the Internet.

Thanks to Sparkle interconnections with the main Cloud Providers and to the presence in all the main POPs worldwide, Cloud Connect provides private connectivity to the major Cloud Providers Data Centers globally.

Customers using more than a single public Cloud Provider technology, can benefit of Cloud Connect configured in a multicloud modality i.e. extending Customer VPN into the different cloud platforms employed.

 

Sparkle Cloud Connect solution can now be ordered with one click with the on-Demand functionality. Sparkle offers our Customers a cloud-like service experience, based on self-modalities, on commercial and contractual flexibility and on a full visibility and control of the active services. What previously took weeks for ordering and provisioning, is now getting fast and easy.

Cloud Connect on-Demand allows Customers to have full visibility and dynamic management of their services and to experience a new quoting and ordering approach, which significantly ease and speed up the purchase administrative process: through a user-friendly Customer Portal, Customers can access the inventory of their Ethernet Suite assets, and dynamically change the network configuration to reach the major public Cloud Providers or simply adjusting the capacity of existing circuits to address variable traffic needs, even for temporary period.

Following Customer's click-and-go submission, the full chain of Sparkle internal processes is automatically activated and aligned.

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Awards

Sparkle awarded as “On Demand MEF 3.0 CE Service Provider of The Year – Region Europe” at MEF Excellence Awards – October 2023, that recognizes Sparkle as an industry-leading service provider that offers on-demand MEF 3.0 CE services optimized for digital transformation.

Our Network


The Sparkle Greece network is identified as Aegean Network and comprises a portion of Sparkle’s Mediterranean Submarine Network. 

Specifically, the Aegean network has three landing points - Aghia Marina, Vravrona and Chania - and two landing stations in Koropi and Chania, Crete. In a ring configuration, the backbone is fully protected and with a guaranteed availability of 99,99%.

In the area of Attica, the Koropi landing station is interconnected with the Metamorfosis Data Center through a double routing fiber-optic connection. Our Metamorfosis, Koropi and Chania Data Centers comprise the perfectly monitored facilities where our clients can co-locate their IT and telecommunications equipment.

Aegean network
03 April 2019     

Sparkle Greece Financial Statement 2018