With this additional node in the Nordic countries, which brings the total on the continent to 89, Sparkle supports the growing demand for international connectivity
Rome/Helsinki, 28 August 2025
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, announces the opening of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Helsinki, Finland, to expand its footprint and guarantee further redundancy and diversification of international connectivity for the Northern European market.
Located at Digita Data Center, a state-of-the-art and fast-growing internet hub, the new PoP in Helsinki, following in the region the one in Stockholm, will address the strong demand for IP Transit services from the Nordic and Baltic countries with a 400GBE-enabled router.
Besides increasing the company’s presence in Northern Europe, the new node is fully integrated with Sparkle’s Tier 1 global IP backbone, Seabone, and allows network operators, ISPs, OTTs, content delivery networks, and content and application providers to benefit from reliable, low-latency IP transit services with throughput in the range of Terabits per second.
Additionally, customers have access to a comprehensive suite of IP solutions, including DDoS Protection, which safeguards
networks against cyberattacks, and Virtual NAP, providing virtual access to leading Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) without the need for proprietary infrastructure development.
With 89 PoPs in Europe and a comprehensive portfolio of ICT and telco services – including SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, messaging, roaming, and voice solutions -Sparkle confirms its role as a leading enabler of digital transformation across the continent, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and beyond.
About Sparkle
Sparkle is TIM Group’s Global Operator, first international service provider in Italy and among the top worldwide, offering a
full range of infrastructure and global connectivity services – capacity, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming, and voice – to national and international Carriers, OTTs, ISPs, Media/Content Providers, and multinational enterprises. A major player in the submarine cable industry, Sparkle owns and manages a network of more than 600,000 km of fiber spanning from Europe to Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, and Asia. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed across 32 countries.
Find out more about Sparkle by following its X and LinkedIn profiles or visiting the website tisparkle.com
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