Rome/Valencia, 30 January 2026
Sparkle, the primary worldwide service supplier in Italy and among the many prime international operators, and Valencia Digital Port Join (VDPC), the Spanish telecommunications infrastructure firm creating the Barracuda submarine cable mission 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 mission 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 function 12 fibre pairs, every with a capability of 32 Tbps (Terabits per second). The mission has an estimated complete funding of €100 million and is scheduled to be accomplished in three years, with operations anticipated to start in 2028.
Below 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 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 Change Factors already current within the facility. By touchdown in Genoa, VDPC will acquire quick 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 can even purchase infrastructure property on the Barracuda submarine cable system between Valencia and Genoa and colocation in Valencia Cable Touchdown Station, a totally impartial, scalable infrastructure designed for Barracuda and as much as three further 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 essential step in our technique to place Genoa as a key gateway to Europe,” mentioned Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle. “The touchdown of Barracuda will strengthen and develop town’s digital ecosystem, whereas the extra capability on the system permits us to additional develop our resilient, high-performance Mediterranean community and higher serve worldwide connectivity demand”.
Enrique Martín, CEO at Valencia Digital Port Join mentioned “This settlement with Sparkle marks a key milestone within the Barracuda mission and confirms that we’re advancing in step with 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 property for worldwide companions confirming the credibility of. our ambition to have the system absolutely operational by 2028”.
About Sparkle
Sparkle is TIM Group’s International Operator, first worldwide service supplier in Italy and among the many prime worldwide, providing a full vary of infrastructure and international connectivity providers – 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 significant participant within the submarine cable business, 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 by 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 a knowledge heart and impartial cable touchdown station on the Valencian coast. The staff consists of seasoned professionals with government 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
sparkle.communication@tisparkle.com
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Valencia Digital Port Join Media Contacts
Pablo de Santiago
- +34.679.607.604
- pablo@desantiago.com