The companies will analyse the requirements to improve the security of undersea telecommunication infrastructures, identifying innovative technologies and solutions to ensure their operational resilience.
Jan 9, 2025
Fincantieri, one of the world’s leading shipbuilding groups, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, to collaborate on the development of innovative technological solutions for the surveillance and protection of submarine telecommunications cables.
The agreement is part of a strategic vision for Italy’s technological development and international competitiveness, in which two excellences collaborate to ensure the resilience of infrastructures which are fundamental for digital connectivity and for the country’s technological growth.
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The fiber-optic network stretches more than 600,000 km across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia, of which 90 percent is laid on submarine cable.
Through shared and specialized work teams, Fincantieri and Sparkle will analyse the requirements for improving the security of undersea telecommunications infrastructures, identifying innovative technologies and solutions to ensure their operational resilience.
Fincantieri, with its expertise in the underwater domain, is developing advanced solutions for surveillance and protection of subsea infrastructure, combining its established know-how in the shipbuilding industry with cutting-edge technologies.
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Sparkle has always been committed to the protection of these strategic infrastructures, through their constant monitoring and introduction of the most advanced physical & digital security systems.
The agreement with Fincantieri is part of collaborations with major players in the sector, including the Italian Navy, with which Sparkle has been working since 2022 to protect its proprietary submarine cables & neighbouring areas, and the Polo Nazionale della dimensione Subacquea (PNS), Italian national hub of the underwater dimension, which brings together the national public and private excellences operating in the sector.
