Sicily Hub

Located closer to North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East than any other European peering point, connected to all cable landing stations in Sicily and served by TI Sparkle tier 1 grade IP Transit service Seabone, endowed with top global contents, Sicily Hub provides top quality and cost efficient connectivity services with reduced latency and lower bandwidth costs than any other European location.

In addition, Sicily Hub’s open and resilient configuration supports Carriers and ISPs that want to improve the efficiency and enhance the redundancy of their networks while enjoying a rich ecosystem and market place of multi-breed interconnected players.


CUSTOMER BENEFITS

Sicily Hub is the best value for money for customers that want to reach or deliver regional and global contents out of the area. Sicily Hub is in fact the preferred hosting platform in the region for:

ISPs and Carriers with their network equipment
Content providers, CDN and Cloud players with their caches and servers

Benefits for Sicily Hub customers are:

Private Peering through the MeetMeRoom
Virtual Private Peering through the Meet Me Room in the most important telehouses in the World
Public Peering through DE-CIX IXP
Virtual Public Peering through the major worldwide IXPs/NAPs
All connectivity services in a one-stop-shopping multivendor and multilayer environment (L1/2/3 transport, IP, IPX,) typically available in European Telehouses
Cloud services
Cost efficiency: Sicily Hub prices are constantly benchmarked with most relevant European Telehouses and landing stations. In addition Sicily Hub proximity and connection to all landing stations in Sicily saves submarine MIU Kilometers and terrestrial long backhauls to European locations
Increased Quality: Sicily Hub peering configuration saves 15 to 25 milliseconds in latency with an overall quality improvement from 50% to 80% for customers from Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East
Increased Reliability: Sicily Hub proximity to customers lowers impact of fiber breaks. Connection to all landing stations in Sicily makes recovery from cable failure faster and less expensive
Highest Security: customers are hosted in a highly secure and state of the art technological environment that ensure maximum protection and service continuity


SERVICES PROVIDED

Colocation and related services
Meet Me Room where all customer equipment will be terminated
Private peering among customers (content and ISP)
Public peering through DE-CIX IXP
Back haul to all Sicily Cable Landing Stations (including but not limited to: SMW3, SMW4, SMW5, IMEWE, MED, bilateral cables)
X-connections
Managed bandwidth services to main European hubs and beyond
IP transit
EoMPLS

Contact us at SicilyHub@tisparkle.com for more info