Tim and Google, what Sparkle will do with Top-Ix
The collaboration between Sparkle, Tim's subsidiary, and the Top-Ix consortium (which also includes Google and Cisco)
Sparkle by Tim and Top-Ix, the Turin and Piedmont Internet Exchange, join forces in the name of fast connection.
Tim's subsidiary will offer global IP transport and transit solutions to Top-Ix members, while increasing and improving the coverage of its Virtual NAP service in Europe. All the details.
WHO IS TOP-IX
Let's start with one of the two protagonists. Top-Ix stands for Torino Piemonte Internet eXchange and is a (non-profit) consortium established in 2002 to create and manage an Internet Exchange (IX) for the exchange of Internet traffic in North West Italy.
The consortium that today wants to be a gateway to Italy, with various fibers traveled, in 2006 also created a development program to promote and support innovative technological and commercial projects based on broadband Internet.
THE CONSORTIUMS
89 consortium members , including Cisco, Facebook, Engineriing, Netflix, Intesa San Paolo, Tiscali and Wind.
Google, the big American who is working with Tim for the cloud and beyond and who has signed several collaborations with the Italian telco in recent months , is also among the consortium members.
THE AGREEMENT WITH SPARKLE
Thanks to the alliance with Sparkle, an international service provider controlled by Tim, the 120 networks already connected to the Internet exchange point in Turin will also be able to take advantage of Sparkle Seabone's global IP Tier-1 transit service and the City2City transport solutions available on the Top-IX market.
THE ADVANTAGES OF SPARKLE
There is no lack of advantages for Sparkle which, with Virtual NAP, will be able to offer to other ISPs, content providers and national and international network operators, "the opportunity to access the TOP-IX peering community without having to implement and manage a proprietary infrastructure or bear the costs of colocation, ”the company explains in a statement.
ACCRESCE PRESENTS SPARKLE IN EUROPE
Not only. Thanks to Top-Ix, Tim's subsidiary strengthens its presence in Europe. The consortium joins the eleven European Internet exchange points already interconnected by Sparkle (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Palermo, Paris, Marseille, Rome and Sofia).
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/tim-e-google-cosa-fara-sparkle-con-top-ix/ on Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:17:02 +0000.