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


Video Transport

Value proposition

Sparkle and Aldea Solutions Inc., a leading global provider of high quality video services and solutions for the television and media industries, offer a solution that provides global access to a multitude of rich-media video content, including some of the major global sporting events.

Description

The solution offers high-quality video delivery, ultra-low latency and reli-able video services for the transmission of live sports, news and other me-dia events over fiber networks.

Aldea’s strong expertise has repeatedly proven very successful in the de-livery of video-managed solutions in major global events such as the Olympics and the World Cup.

The new solution makes Sparkle Sicily Hub in Palermo a premier media hub for the exchange of global media content in the region.
The joint Sparkle and Aldea global media transport solution has been rec-ognized as the “Enterprise application of the year-Media” at the MEF Excel-lence Awards 2017. 

 

Product features

  • International transport service for permanent or occasional use with live video transmissions supporting all the latest video interfaces (ASI, SDI/HD-SDI, Ethernet) and compression formats (e.g. MPEG-2, MPEG-4 or JPEG-2000). In addition, uncompressed and high-definition feeds can be provisioned on a case-by-case basis, leveraging Sparkle’s proprietary global fiber backbone
  • Configuration, management and real-time monitoring managed by a dedicated video NOC; round-the-clock availability backed by best-in-class Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Live and on-demand content preparation and transcoding for streaming and distribution to multichannel integrated platforms such as DTT, DTH and OTT

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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