{"id":113237,"date":"2020-10-09T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/?p=113237"},"modified":"2024-10-31T18:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:10:42","slug":"partnership-between-top-ix-consortium-and-sparkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/partnership-between-top-ix-consortium-and-sparkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership between TOP-IX Consortium and Sparkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The TOP-IX Consortium has started a collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tisparkle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sparkle<\/a>, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, for the exchange of Internet traffic in North West Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this agreement, <strong>the 120 networks already connected at the Turin Internet exchange point will benefit from Sparkle\u2019s global Tier-1 IP Transit service Seabone and City2City transport solutions available at TOP-IX marketplace<\/strong>. In addition, with Virtual NAP, Sparkle can grant other national and international ISPs, content providers and network operators the opportunity to access TOP-IX peering community without having to implement and manage a proprietary infrastructure nor bearing the costs of colocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOP-IX adds to the eleven European internet exchange points already interconnected by Sparkle &#8211; and located in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Palermo, Paris, Marseille, Rome and Sofia &#8211; improving the coverage of Sparkle\u2019s Virtual NAP service in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TOP-IX Consortium has started a collaboration with Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, for the exchange of Internet traffic in North West Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,87,309],"tags":[989,991,988,990],"class_list":["post-113237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interconnections","category-consortium","category-news","tag-collaboration","tag-service-provider","tag-sparkle-2","tag-virtual-nap-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113241,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237\/revisions\/113241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}