Telecom Italia Sparkle extends Global IP Backbone Seabone in Asia with new IP POP in Hong Kong
Telecom Italia Sparkle, the international services arm of Telecom Italia, is pleased to announce that its Global Internet backbone Seabone latest Point of Presence is now available in Hong Kong, China.
With this new IP POP TI Sparkle strengthens its IP transit proposition in Asia and consolidates its positioning in South East Asia. In the region TI Sparkle is already a major player in the IP&Data services market through an extensive ownership of capacity in various submarine cable systems, including the upcoming IMEWE connecting India to Italy via the Gulf.
TI Sparkle’s new IP POP in Honk Kong is connected westbound to Seabone’s European leg via Singapore, and eastbound to the US portion of TI Sparkle’s global IP backbone. This is a truly diversified configuration that allows customers to optimize traffic distribution and to reach any destination through the shortest distance. Chinese and Asian content providers are now able to offer a top quality service to their European, Asian, African, North- and South-American customers, who will benefit from Seabone’s global reach and very high number of peering interconnections. “We want our customer to enjoy the highest quality of Internet connectivity” said Paolo Ferrari, CEO of TI Sparkle, “and therefore we are continuously improving our IP backbone in terms of technology, architecture and reach”.
TI Sparkle fully IPv6 enabled 2-Terabyte Global IP Backbone Seabone ranks #1st in the Mediterranean, #3rd in Europe and #11 worldwide. In addition, Sicily is the top IP hub in the Mediterranean through TI Sparkle node in Palermo. TI Sparkle is consolidating its leadership thanks to its dual IP POP architecture in Palermo and Catania, which provides express, reliable and robust access to the Big Internet, allowing major ISPs to exchange traffic within the region with an optimal latency performance and with access to the world’s major content locally stored, ensuring eyeballs best Internet experience. With the upcoming IMEWE cable scheduled to start operations in 4th Quarter 2010 TI Sparkle will further consolidate its leadership as major communications gateway between Europe, Middle East and Asia.