Press Releases


23 February 2006     

Telecom Italia Sparkle and Cisco Systems join forces to build S@fe a wholesale solution to help prevent denial of service attacks .

Telecom Italia Sparkle (TI Sparkle) and Cisco Systems®, Inc. (Cisco) are jointly announcing the roll-out of S@FE, a network-based solution for international wholesale customers of the TI Sparkle IP backbone (SEABONE). S@fe is designed to provide more effective protection against Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

20 February 2006     
Rome

Telecom Italia Sparkle successfully participated to the SMS hub “proof of concept” and to the IMS/SIP interoperability trial, two major initiatives of the GSM Association (GSMA)

Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telecom Italia Group’s international carrier, announces the successful accomplishment of two major initiatives led by the GSMA: the first “proof of concept” trial for SMS delivery via hub-based infrastructure and the beginning of interoperability trials for Video Sharing Service via hub based IMS/SIP platform.

16 January 2006     
Rome

Telecom Italia Sparkle will secure for Dhiraagu a privileged access to the Big Internet, by connecting via submarine cable the recently inaugurated Maldives - Sri Lanka cable to the SMW4 cable system

Dhiraagu the national communications provider and largest service operator of the Republic of Maldives, has awarded Telecom Italia Sparkle - the wholesale global operator part of the Telecom Italia Group – one of its first international links via submarine cable. The circuit will be routed on the recently inaugurated Maldives - Sri Lanka cable (a partnership between Dhiraagu and Sri Lanka Telecom) and then connected to the SMW4 cable system up to Palermo, Italy, the rapidly growing IP hub being selected by Middle East, Gulf and Asian Carriers willing to secure a privileged access to the Big Internet.

23 September 2005     
Rome and Jakarta

Telecom Italia Sparkle and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Announce the Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding on International Telecommunication Services and Know-How Transfer

Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telecom Italia Group’s international carrier, and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), Indonesia’s main telecommunications provider, have signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of voice services, Internet Protocol (IP), and technology transfer. t orci egestas posuere.