BlueMed, Sparkle’s new cable that will connect Italy with France, Greece and several countries bordering the Mediterranean, has landed in Palermo, thus marking the completion of laying of the Genoa-Golfo Aranci-Pomezia-Palermo Tyrrhenian section.
BlueMed, which is part of the Blue Submarine Cable System project built in partnership with Google and other operators, has four fibre pairs and an initial design capacity of more than 25 Tbps per pair. Laying began in January with the branch to Sardinia (Golfo Aranci) and continued between February and March with the shore ends in Pomezia, on the coast of Rome, and in Genoa. From the Ligurian capital, the cable continues southwards to Palermo from where it will proceed through the Strait of Messina and the Mediterranean Sea down to the Red Sea.
Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle, said: “With the landing of BlueMed in Palermo, we complete the laying of the Tyrrhenian section of one of the most advanced digital infrastructures in the world while reinforcing Sicily’s centrality in the global Internet system.” He added, “Thanks to BlueMed, the Sicily Hub in Palermo is set for further expansion and growth, confirming itself as a strategic asset for the country’s digitization and a key hub for data traffic in the Mediterranean region.”
