![]() ![]() One of the surprises was that “customers came through that we weren’t expecting”, he says. Sparkle operates and manages three fibre pairs on the cable. Seabras-1 is the Brazil-US subsea cable system that directly connects São Paulo and Fortaleza to New York. “But we’ve had very good success on Seabras-1 and we are looking at other ideas in South America.” What about other new subsea cables, in addition to that one from Sicily? “We are finding the right way to fund them. “We have good technological expertise and we’re trying to find the right go-to-market solution.” Sparkle from a technology point of view is very aware of SD-WAN.” The company is working with MEF, the former Metro Ethernet Forum that is one of the forces in the development of SD-WAN. ![]() He adds: “Some operators are working on this but have a very early-stage approach. “We’re looking very much as different applications for connectivity to enterprises.” Enterprises have different needs and “all of these flexible solutions are strictly correlated to the capacity of the connectivity,” says Delleani. “Mobile operators are looking for very high quality and sophisticated routing systems and we see something very interesting there.” These aren’t big numbers and the service is very specific, he accepts, “but it gives mobile operators the opportunity to offer diverse services”.Īnd then there’s SD-WAN. These are “good for online security procedures”, he notes. We’ve had very good success in Brazil with A2P messaging.” This has been taken up by “lots of corporations”, especially in the banking sector. I am in discussions about the new services.” It “will include new products and services. The new industrial plan “is a work in progress”, he adds. “Many others will come by the end of this year,” says Delleani. Two in Colombia, at Cartagena and Bogotà, are on track, plus one in Nigeria and another in Indonesia. Sparkle is also expanding its internet presence through new points of presence. The latency for subsea can be lower than that for terrestrial cables.” “This is a project we’re looking at very closely as an alternative to Marseille. At the moment traffic that lands in Sicily travels the length of Italy to the business and industrial centres of Europe. Why’s that important? Sicily competes with Marseille in southern France as a western European landing point for subsea cables from north Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In the Mediterranean, for example, there is no submarine cable from Sicily to Genoa.” “We’re focusing particularly on the Mediterranean region, where Sparkle already plays a strategic role, and on the Middle East. Now, he’s hoping the board will approve a number of projects in the emerging industrial plan. ![]() Telecom Italia had to face issues related to wholesale and related to other licensed operators, dealing with them as the incumbent. “I looked at various projects – an engineer likes to play with the toy that is the network,” he recalls. This is mildly expressed but a clear criticism of Sparkle’s – and perhaps the group’s – strategies over the past few years, voiced by someone who has continued to work within the group, at Olivetti, until he returned to the wholesale division.ĭelleani has been at Telecom Italia/TIM for over 30 years, having joined after graduating in electronic engineering at the University of Rome Sapienza. It’s done some innovation, but not – in my view – enough.” Mobile platforms and solutions for multinational companies are growing but not as expected. “In terms of portfolio, voice, IP and capacity are still very important. “I very much liked the idea of seeing what Sparkle was like six years ago and now.” “I was asked to rejoin Sparkle and my friends,” he says. It’s been a tough few years for any executive in the TIM group, and the instability has affected staff in all divisions, including Sparkle – see panel, below.ĭelleani came back to Sparkle in 2018 to replace Alessandro Talotta. He’s a former chairman and CEO of Sparkle who in 2015 moved within the TIM group to run Olivetti, the former typewriter company that is now its IT and systems integration arm. In fact Delleani has come back to the role he had six years ago. “We’re presenting it at the end of February to the board of directors,” says Riccardo Delleani, who took over the role in April 2018. The new CEO of Sparkle, the international division of what used to be Telecom Italia but is now TIM, is in the final stages of putting together what he calls a “new industrial plan” to the group’s main board. ![]()
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