Through the agreement with Italy’s Sparkle, the Indian business is diversifying its global undersea network
Sparkle, the Italian, international infrastructure provider has signed an agreement with Airtel Business, part of India’s Bharti Airtel group.
The agreement will provide Airtel Business with additional capacity on a diversified, low latency route between Asia and Europe via Google’s Blue-Raman undersea infrastructure.
Airtel Business is one of India’s leading ICT service providers, with strategically located submarine cables, satellite networks and global networks spanning 400,000 km (including indefeasible rights of use) across 50 countries and five continents.
It has more than 1,200 partnerships with carriers globally to connect customers all over the world to hard-to-reach areas.
In India, Airtel Business offers solutions including secure connectivity, cloud and data centre services, cyber security, IoT and cloud-based communications to enterprises, governments, carriers, and small and medium businesses.
Under the agreement, Sparkle will provide capacity on the Blue & Raman Submarine Cable Systems which will connect India to Italy. With this additional capacity, Airtel will diversify its global network across multiple international submarine cable systems to serve the growing demand for data services in India and neighbouring countries.
The two companies will also work together to develop new business opportunities and projects in the Indian sub-continent, leveraging their respective cable infrastructures.
Vani Venkatesh, CEO of Global Business at Airtel Business, said, “ This partnership will further diversify our network with large integrated capacities to meet the ever-growing connectivity needs and data demand of our customers.”
“We are very pleased with this agreement, based on the new solution provided by Blue & Raman, which supports the digital growth of the region and strengthens our historical partnership with Bharti Airtel”, added Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle.