17 October 2024
Sparkle and Mobily have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a new route to connect Europe to Southeast Asia and thus meet the growing demand for secured and diversified connectivity between the two continents.
Under the MoU, the parties agreed to leverage on Sparkle’s and Mobily’s terrestrial networks and the AAE1 cable in Jeddah to create a diversified and low latency route that will connect Italy to Saudi Arabia reaching Singapore.
With this new path, network providers, ISPs, OTTs, content and application providers as well as enterprises will enjoy reliable, low latency route in multiples of capacity levels from 10GB to 100 GB and beyond. In addition, customers will benefit from the full expanded network of Mobily and of its partner to access their rich portfolio of services such as Layer-1, Layer-2 and IP portfolio, which provides virtual access to leading Internet Exchange Points (IXPs); and also benefit from Mobily services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Sparkle services in Italy and Europe.
“This new diverse route will enhance the resiliency of global network connectivity between East/Middle East to Europe, thereby supporting the growth of data centers and content diversification for OTTs and Hyperscalers in the region. We are happy to have this cooperation between Mobily and Sparkle for such an important project,” said Thamer A. Alfadda, SVP Wholesale of Mobily.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Mobily in the realization of this intercontinental digital corridor, in which Saudi Arabia plays a primary and pivotal role, that will enable better communication between Europe and the Indo-Pacific while accelerating the development of digital services in all the countries crossed,” said Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle.
