Italy’s Sparkle has launched GreenMed, a brand new submarine cable system that may cross the Adriatic Sea, connecting Italy to Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, and Turkey earlier than extending additional into the Mediterranean. In an official launch, Sparkle stated the brand new cable would create a fibre-optic infrastructure hall to attach Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Central-Japanese Mediterranean international locations by a diversified and low-latency route.

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Strategic Hub in Milan

From Italy’s Adriatic coast, the system will reportedly join by land to the wealthy digital hub of Milan and, from there, to different main European web and cloud nodes.

The GreenMed undertaking additionally goals to assist the event of the Balkan digital market by providing a safe and diversified route along with the already current terrestrial backbones.

Commenting on the GreenMed launch, Sparkle said, “With GreenMed, Sparkle continues the enlargement of its community by making a route with extremely progressive options that crosses the Mediterranean basin to assist the demand for intercontinental connectivity and the rising digitalisation of the Balkan space.”

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Italy as Central Hub

Italy solidifies its position because the central hub of the Larger Mediterranean, with the GreenMed system extending connectivity to Greece’s Crete island. Crete serves as an important digital gateway and the touchdown level for Sparkle’s BlueMed cable, which connects Italy with France, Greece, and numerous international locations bordering the Mediterranean till reaching Aqaba in Jordan.