Sparkle Adds New Santiago Hub to Bolster Chile–US Connectivity

Sparkle, TIM Group’s international network arm, has opened a new Point of Presence in Santiago, Chile, expanding its footprint in the country alongside existing nodes in Santiago and Valparaiso. The site, located in Ascenty’s data centre, runs a 400GBE-enabled router tied into Sparkle’s global Tier-1 Seabone backbone (AS6762). The company says the move improves route diversity and redundancy for local operators and boosts regional connectivity across South America.

Through the Curie submarine cable linking Chile directly to California, and other systems including Monet, Seabras-1 and the upcoming Manta cable in the Atlantic, Sparkle can offer high-capacity, low-latency links between South and North America. Customers at the new PoP — including carriers, ISPs, OTTs, CDNs and application providers — can buy capacity and IP transit, plus services such as DDoS protection and Virtual NAP, which gives virtual access to major IXPs without building their own infrastructure. With this addition, Sparkle now operates 54 PoPs across the Americas in markets including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the US and Venezuela.