Rome/Valencia, 30 January 2026
Sparkle, the primary worldwide service supplier in Italy and among the many high international operators, and Valencia Digital Port Join (VDPC), the Spanish telecommunications infrastructure firm growing the Barracuda submarine cable undertaking in collaboration with personal fairness agency Teset Capital, announce a strategic settlement to land the Barracuda submarine cable at Sparkle’s Genoa Touchdown Platform.
The Barracuda undertaking will set up the primary direct high-capacity, low-latency submarine route between Spain and Italy, making a 1,070 km digital bridge between Valencia and Genoa. Designed with an “open cable system” structure, Barracuda will characteristic 12 fibre pairs, every with a capability of 32 Tbps (Terabits per second). The undertaking has an estimated complete funding of €100 million and is scheduled to be accomplished in three years, with operations anticipated to start in 2028.
Underneath the settlement, Barracuda will land at Sparkle’s Genoa Touchdown Platform, a scalable infrastructure designed to supply a turnkey, extremely resilient and safe submarine cable touchdown on the Western European shoreline. By way of this infrastructure, the cable will attain Sparkle’s Genoa Digital Hub in Lagaccio, an open and impartial colocation facility and interconnection level with different submarine cables and European terrestrial networks in addition to Web Alternate Factors already current within the facility. By touchdown in Genoa, VDPC will acquire speedy entry to main European hubs, avoiding the fee, time and administrative complexity of deploying a proprietary touchdown infrastructure.
As a part of the broader settlement, Sparkle may also purchase infrastructure belongings on the Barracuda submarine cable system between Valencia and Genoa and colocation in Valencia Cable Touchdown Station, a completely impartial, scalable infrastructure designed for Barracuda and as much as three extra submarine cable techniques. This extra functionality will strengthen Sparkle’s connectivity within the Iberian Peninsula, serving the native in addition to the rising West African market, thus additional reinforcing its strategic footprint within the Mediterranean area.
“This settlement represents an necessary step in our technique to place Genoa as a key gateway to Europe,” stated Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle. “The touchdown of Barracuda will strengthen and increase the town’s digital ecosystem, whereas the extra capability on the system permits us to additional increase our resilient, high-performance Mediterranean community and higher serve worldwide connectivity demand”.
Enrique Martín, CEO at Valencia Digital Port Join stated “This settlement with Sparkle marks a key milestone within the Barracuda undertaking and confirms that we’re advancing according to our strategic roadmap. Securing Genoa as our touchdown level and welcoming Sparkle as a long-term buyer reinforces Barracuda and Valencia Cable Touchdown Station as strategic belongings for worldwide companions confirming the credibility of. our ambition to have the system absolutely operational by 2028”.
About Sparkle
Sparkle is TIM Group’s World Operator, first worldwide service supplier in Italy and among the many high worldwide, providing a full vary of infrastructure and international connectivity companies – capability, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming and voice – to nationwide and worldwide Carriers, OTTs, ISPs, Media/Content material Suppliers, and multinational enterprises. A serious participant within the submarine cable trade, Sparkle owns and manages a community of greater than 600,000 km of fiber spanning from Europe to Africa and the Center East, the Americas and Asia. Its gross sales drive is energetic worldwide and distributed over 32 nations.
Discover out extra about Sparkle following its X and LinkedIn profiles or visiting the web site tisparkle.com
About Valencia Digital Port Join, S.L.
VDPC is a Spanish telecommunications infrastructure firm headquartered in Alicante. Its mission is to ascertain a next-generation, impartial, and sustainable worldwide connectivity hub within the Valencian Neighborhood via the deployment of superior colocation infrastructure, terrestrial interconnection networks, and submarine connectivity options. VDPC is main the event of the Barracuda submarine cable connecting Valencia with Genoa, together with an information heart and impartial cable touchdown station on the Valencian coast. The crew consists of seasoned professionals with govt backgrounds in telecom multinationals, the commercial sector, and academia.
Discover out extra about VDPC following LinkedIn profiles or visiting the web site valenciadigitalport.com
Sparkle Media Contacts
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Valencia Digital Port Join Media Contacts
Pablo de Santiago
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