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Telecom Italia Sparkle Leads in Middle East IP Transit Market
Carrier Selects Renesys’ Market Intelligence to Increase Competitive Edge
Rome, Italy and Manchester, NH September 12, 2006 — Renesys Corporation, a leading provider of next-generation Internet Routing and Market Intelligence solutions, today announced that its Market Intelligence Service has been chosen by Telecom Italia Sparkle, a worldwide leader in international telecommunications services, to benchmark the performance of Seabone (Telecom Italia Sparkle’s IP global backbone) and explore IP transit, peering relationships, customer prospects and competitor strategies worldwide. As an early finding using Renesys Market Intelligence, Telecom Italia Sparkle has resulted as the largest IP carrier in terms of transit relationships in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin, among the fastest growing markets for telecommunications services.
Using Renesys Market Intelligence, Telecom Italia Sparkle was shown to provide more IP transit connections in the region than its main competitors.
“It is very beneficial to have the largest customer base in one of the fastest-growing Internet regions,” said Arturo Danesi, Telecom Italia Sparkle VP Marketing, IP and Data Services for Telecom Italia Sparkle. “Our traction in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin is the key example of our vast growth across a number of strategic regions.”
Telecom Italia Sparkle cited the depth and uniqueness of Market Intelligence as the driving forces in the Company’s decision to select Renesys.
“Market Intelligence gives us an interesting competitive advantage in that it provides a level of information previously unachievable. It will also help us to further establish a leadership position in high growth markets such as Eastern Europe and Latin America,” continued Mr. Danesi. “This is a very easy-to-use service, and it provides a degree of intelligence that would have been extremely inefficient to build and maintain internally.”
Renesys Market Intelligence gives service providers a real-time view into the Global Internet as it affects their business. Marketing, sales, business development and peering professionals can now clearly watch their customers and their competition.
“We’re thrilled to add Telecom Italia Sparkle, one of the most recognized and experienced telecomm leaders worldwide, to our growing list of customers. Seabone has shown a tremendous success in providing IP transit all over the world. Seabone is today providing Tier-1 grade IP solutions and is currently in the Top 10 of our Global Backbone Ranking, second between the European players, and it’s still growing,” said Andy T. Ogielski, President, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Renesys. “We’re confident that Market Intelligence will provide them with the most current strategic resources available to help them quantify, refine and retain their competitive advantage.”
Renesys Market Intelligence (RMI) is the first and only continuously-updated information resource of its kind. Based on the evolution of the global service provider marketplace, it includes live data from global routing tables, which is therefore used to include real-time maps of more than 180,000 networks and 30,000 organizations worldwide. RMI showcases relative strengths and weaknesses of competing service providers, and includes global, national and regional rankings of customer growth based on the changing number and quality of networks to which the competitor is linked.
Seabone is the IP global backbone of Telecom Italia Sparkle, providing wholesale IP services in four continents, leveraging on proprietary fiber network and 75+ POPs around the world. The company’s IP product portfolio includes: IP transit, IPv6, Ethernet over MPLS, Virtual Peering and a flexible set of commercial and technical options. Seabone’s new state-of-the-art product is S@FE, a network-based protection tool against DoS/DDoS attacks developed with a fine tuned mix of hi-tech and experience of a specialized Security Operating Centre, to ensure the business continuity to Seabone customers. S@FE is the first wholesale product of its kind to provide such a level of security.
About Renesys Corporation
Renesys offers the industry’s first Internet performance monitoring and analysis solution that provides Internet intelligence for competitive advantage. The company gives service providers, government agencies and Global 2000 organizations, a real-time view into the Global Internet as it affects their business. Only with Renesys can customers have a new level of speed and agility in managing the Internet climate outside the four walls of the organization, resulting in minimal downtime between customers, partners and other stakeholders. Renesys was founded in 2000 and is based in Manchester, NH. For more information, visit www.renesys.com.
About Telecom Italia Sparkle
Telecom Italia Sparkle (Sparkle), a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia, was established in 2003 with the objective of developing and consolidating the Italian Group’s international wholesale and retail business. It employs 870 persons, both in Italy and abroad. In 2005 Sparkle reported revenues of 2.04 billion euros. The headquarters are in Rome, network operation centres in Milan and Palermo, offices and subsidiaries in 18 countries worldwide.
Telecom Italia Sparkle is a full service provider, offering a complete range of solutions spanning voice services, IP, bandwidth and managed data services for fixed-line and mobile operators, Internet Service Providers and, in synergy with Telecom Italia, for multinational corporations.
Sparkle is also active in the Consulting Services business, aimed at carriers and financial institutions. Sparkle runs a proprietary, advanced and global-reaching international network made up of three regional systems, deployed in Europe (with dual path), the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America. For more information please visit: www.telecomitaliasparkle.com
Contacts:
Bob Fletcher
Senior Director Sales and Marketing
617-306-2399
sales@renesys.com
Giulio Senni
Telecom Italia Sparkle
+39 06 5274 5318
giulio.senni@telecomitalia.it