Sparkle Starts Laying the BlueMed Subsea Cable in Genoa

BlueMed Cable Map, Source: Sparkle

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Sparkle, the communication infrastructure provider and first international service provider in Italy, announced that it has commenced laying the BlueMed subsea cable in Genoa, Italy. The cable will connect Italy with India, becoming the main data highway between Asia and Europe.

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BlueMed Subsea Cable

BlueMed Subsea cable will establish connections between Italy and France, Greece, and Israel, as well as various branches throughout the Mediterranean. It is part of the Blue & Raman Submarine Cable System project, built in partnership with Google and other operators with further extensions in the African and Asian continents. The cable has four fiber pairs and an initial design capacity of more than 25 Tbps per pair. BlueMed will offer high-speed Internet connections and high-performance connectivity solutions to Internet Service Providers.

Announced in 2019, BlueMed is Sparkle’s new subsea cable, and the construction site was inaugurated on July 04, 2022. The deployment began on January 31, 2022, with the laying of the branch in Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, and continued on February 09, 2022, with the landing in Pomezia, on the coast of Rome.

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Genoa Landing Platform features

The Genoa landing platform, which has a multi-conductor submarine pipeline known as the Bore Pipe and reaches through a 6 km network of tunnels to reach the Genoa Lagaccio Open Landing Station, a point of interconnection with other submarine cables and terrestrial national and continental networks. In addition to Blue, the Genoa Landing Platform is designed to safely accommodate up to six new cables without impacting the environment and the city.