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


SASE Connect

Value proposition

The world of Telecommunications is in constant change: new global circumstances have entailed a shift of perspective in multiple aspects of our lives, and the workplace is no exception.

The technological transformation has already begun and new socio-political scenarios have dramatically accelerated its importance; the almost immediate transition to remote work environments will heavily affect the new normal.

Enterprises are moving towards SaaS models to achieve greater agility: they are moving applications to the cloud to remain competitive and expand their perimeters with both distributed offices and remote working from home.

Employees’ increased demand to access data from anywhere leads to the need of protection against an ever-evolving set of security vulnerabilities.

IT Units must support this transformation by providing users with the same application experience regardless of their location while ensuring the security of networks, applications and data.

Sparkle delivers SASE Connect, a SASE Platform and a unified cloud service model, combined with Sparkle security and connectivity expertise, to manage business policies, security rules, configuration, monitoring, operations, and troubleshooting of any fixed and mobile business asset.

Description

Sparkle SASE Connect provides an easy one-stop-shop suite of security and networking services by enabling remote work away from the corporate perimeter regardless of the physical location of the device or network connectivity.

The security components of SASE Connect are:

  • Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)
  • Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
  • Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
  • Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Benefits

SASE Connect provides customers with flexible, secure, optimized and cost-effective access to the cloud by leveraging any type of underlying connectivity, including the public Internet.

The main advantages from the customer’s perspective are:

  • No Complexity
    • SASE connect enhances consolidation among plenty of different platforms by offering a unique management tool and automation framework
    • Cloud-based security services offer cost-efficient approaches for scaling and bursting, by leveraging on the different SASE Connect features and options
    • Sparkle expertise on networking and security provides a fully reliable and seamless managed service
  • Increased performances
    • SASE Connect provides constant network monitoring that detects data performance avoiding backhauling, tromboning and VPN roaming
  • Simplified Security
    • Security Policy implementation and enforcement rules are unified as they are brought closer to users and applications
    • The same tools and practices are used regardless of the physical location
    • End-to-end encryption enables a higher level of compliance, while cloud-scale security features enhance detection and remediation of even advanced threats
  • Multi-Vendor approach
    • SASE Connect serves customers with single plane of glass, providing flexibility and scalability in terms of functionality
    • Customers will be able to choose the preferred technology to support their business needs whether or not bundled with an existing connectivity solution

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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