19 October 2010     

Telecom Italia Sparkle extends Global IP Backbone Seabone in Europe with new IP POP at Evoswitch, Amsterdam

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 at neutral Data Center Evoswitch in Amsterdam, Netherland. 

With its new IP POP at Evoswitch TI Sparkle adds to its already wide presence in Amsterdam and is able to cater its high quality and over-provisioned Seabone Global IP backbone to IP bandwidth-hungry content and media service providers. Evoswitch is in fact attracting fast growing service providers generating high volumes of IP traffic in need of increasing co-location space and of high transmission facilities.

This new IP POP is one of the various IP points of presence TI Sparkle is adding to its Global IP backbone Seabone in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. “We want our customer to enjoy the highest quality of Internet connectivity” said Paolo Ferrari, CEO of TI Sparkle, “and therefore we intend to continue to reinforce our IP Transit service Seabone with new content worldwide. Today more than 50% of our customers traffic is managed on-net and is never carried through the public internet, therefore we are able to provide full E2E quality control throughout the whole path. We are proud to provide our customers with the best internet experience. ” 

TI Sparkle fully IPv6 enabled 2-Terabit 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 nodes. TI Sparkle dual IP POP architecture in Palermo & Catania 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 world’s major content locally stored ensuring eyeballs best Internet experience.