Double Win for Sparkle at the NaaS Excellence Awards
Sparkle recognized as “NaaS Service Provider of the Year – Europe” and “Carrier Ethernet Service Innovation of the Year - Europe” at the Mplify Member Summit – Americas in Boston
Sparkle has been awarded as “NaaS Service Provider of the Year – Europe” and “Carrier Ethernet Service Innovation of the Year - Europe” by Mplify, the global industry association formerly known as MEF Forum, during the awards ceremony held in Boston as part of the Mplify Member Summit – Americas.
The NaaS Excellence Awards celebrate organizations and individuals advancing innovation, collaboration and industry leadership in the NaaS ecosystem, helping turn automated, interoperable and AI-ready digital infrastructure from vision into real-world execution.
For the second consecutive year, Sparkle has been named NaaS Service Provider of the Year – Europe, recognizing its ability to turn its NaaS vision into a scalable, secure and adaptive operating model. Leveraging the Mplify NaaS framework, Sparkle combines standards-based interoperability, automation and AI-driven capabilities across its network and service operations, while advancing secure networking through the Quantum-Safe Interconnect (QSI) service and STLS-AI (Symmetric TLS for Agentic AI), its patent-pending technology designed to secure communications between autonomous AI agents, APIs and distributed workloads.
The Carrier Ethernet Service Innovation of the Year – Europe award honours Sparkle’s transformation of its Carrier Ethernet offering into an automated, high-capacity and AI-assisted interconnection platform for the cloud and AI era. Sparkle Ethernet Suite combines Mplify-certified interoperability, global infrastructure, service automation and AI to provide scalable connectivity for enterprise and wholesale customers. Standardized APIs, self-service capabilities, dynamic bandwidth management and AI-supported quotation and network assurance further enhance service scalability and efficiency, while the 100 Gbps upgrade of its backbone supports increasingly data-intensive applications.
“These two awards reflect a transformation that goes far beyond technology: they recognize Sparkle’s vision of a network that is increasingly intelligent, automated and secure by design,” said Daniele Mancuso, Chief Marketing & Product Management at Sparkle. “As AI reshapes the way data, services and autonomous agents interact, we are building the foundations for a new generation of connectivity: open and interoperable, scalable by nature and ready for the post-quantum era. This is how we see the network of tomorrow: not simply connecting the digital world but enabling it to evolve.”
Mplify is a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy.