Europe - Sparkle

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Table of content
Telecom Italia Overview
Telecom Italia Sparkle
TI Sparkle Network
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Telecom Italia Overview
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TOP ICT company leader in offerings and innovative services
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Operations in Europe, South America and Mediterranean
 21.2 million fixed lines in Italy (4.1 millions in Argentina)
 9.0 million broadband accesses in Italy (1.6 millions in Argentina)
 32.2 million mobile lines in Italy and 70.4 millions in Brazil (21.3 millions in Argentina)
 Number of employees: 83,184
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Economic and financial results
 Revenues: 29.5 Bln €
 EBITDA: 11.6 Bln €
 EBIT: 6.2 Bln €
All data at December 31, 2012
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Telecom Italia Shareholders
Shareholders breakdown at December 31, 2012
Foreign
Companies
6,01%
Other Italian
Shareholders
14,99%
Other Foreign
Shareholders
0,06%
Significant Shareholdings
Subject
TELCO S.p.A.
22,39%
Telecom Italia
Group
1,21%
Italian
Companies
0,77%
Type of
shareholding
% of ordinary share
capital
TELCO S.p.A.
Direct
22.39%
Findim Group S.A.
Direct
4.99%
Telco S.p.A. Ownership
Foreign
Institutional
Investors
49,28%
Italian
Institutional
Investors
5,29%
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Gruppo Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (30.58%)
Intesa San Paolo S.p.A. (11.62%)
Mediobanca S.p.A. (11.62%)
Telefonica S.A. (46.18%)
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Table of Content
Telecom Italia Overview
Telecom Italia Sparkle
TI Sparkle Network
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TI Sparkle Group Overview
 Leading global service provider, offering Voice, IP and Data solutions for fixed-line and mobile
operators, ISPs, media & content providers and multinational corporations (MNCs)
 Wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia created in 2003 with the objective of developing the
international wholesale and MNCs business and of supporting TI Group business units for the
provisioning of international Services
Company Data
EOY ‘12
Headcount
• TI Sparkle
671
• Subsidiaries
260
Countries of presence
40
Network coverage
• # Cities
68
• # PoPs (incl. Telehouses)
113
Virtual PoPs through partners
> 1,000
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TI Sparkle Group
Global operator providing wholesale Voice, Mobile Data, IP&Data
services and retail solutions for MNCs (Multinational Corporations)
 Domestic and international operator in S. Marino Republic
 International VoIP and Pre-paid service provider
TI Sparkle of North America Inc.
International wholesale carrier with a 214 License operating in the US,
offering Voice and IP&Data services
International wholesale Carrier operating in Asia offering Voice and
IP&Data services
TI Sparkle Singapore Pte Ltd
High quality, value-added wholesale service provider operating in the
Americas and the Mediterranean through two state-of-the-art regional
proprietary fiber optic backbones fully integrated with TI Sparkle’s global
network
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TI Sparkle Subsidiaries and International Presence
Europe
Austria Netherlands
Belgium
Poland
Bulgaria
Portugal
Czech Rep. Romania
France
Russia
Germany San Marino
Greece
Slovakia
Hungary
Spain
Ireland Switzerland
Israel
Turkey
Italy
UK
Pan European Backbone
Asset Companies
TI Sparkle of North America Inc.
Frankfurt
Moscow
Wien
Bucharest
Istanbul
Athens Tel Aviv
Cairo
Dubai
London
Americas
Argentina
Bolivia
Brasil
Chile
Colombia
Panama
Peru
St. Croix
US
Venezuela
New York
Paris
Madrid
Miami
Tripoli
Office
Hong Kong
Singapore
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Owned Company
Mumbai
Johannesburg
MEA &
AsiaPac
TI Sparkle Singapore Pte Ltd
Egypt
South Africa
China/Hong Kong
India
Libya
Singapore
UAE
Figures as of March 2013
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TI Sparkle Group Key Assets
 Global Services Portfolio for Operators and Corporate customers
 State-of-the-art Global Network, with proprietary backbones in Europe, Mediterranean
Basin and Latin America and ownership in submarine cables connecting Europe with
South-East Asia
 Worldwide presence in 40 countries based on fully owned companies and offices
 Advanced OSS, BSS and Customer Care capabilities with multi-lingual call center
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TI Sparkle Organization
Chairman
Riccardo Delleani
ADMINISTRATION &
CONTROL
FRAUD & RISK
MANAGEMENT
HUMAN
RESOURCES
LEGAL &
REGULATORY
AFFAIRS
Andrea Benincasa
Roberto Girardi
Rosangela Petraglia
Carlo De Gennaro
SALES
ASIA PACIFIC
Dino Civitarese
SALES
AMERICAS
CEO
Maria Teresa Ferrigno
Elisabetta Ripa
SALES
EUROPE
Zvika Caspy
SALES AFRICA &
MIDDLE EAST
Thierry Tomiet
CHIEF STRATEGY
OFFICER
MARKETING
TECHNOLOGY
NETWORK
OPERATIONS
IT DEVELOPMENT
AND OPERATIONS
CUSTOMER
OPERATIONS
Fabrizio Gorietti
Leonardo M. Cerciello
Mario Pirro
Umberto Tucci
Maria Malagisi
Federico Porri
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TI Sparkle Global Services Portfolio
Voice, IP and Data solutions for Fixed and Mobile Operators, ISPs, Media & Content Providers and MNCs
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TI Sparkle Group Global Network
Global capabilities
 68 cities in 31 countries
 113 PoPs
 >1,000 PoPs through
partners
 55,000 km/fibre PEB
 30,000 km LAN
 7,500 km MED
 14,000 km/fibre Italian
network
 450,000 km submarine
cables
Data as of January 2013
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Worldwide coverage through bilateral network
Integrated and resilient proprietary backbones in Europe (PEB), Mediterranean Basin, US and LatAm
Unique dual protected fiber path in Europe
Full IP - softswitch multi-service network
Unique footprint in the Mediterranean region through bilateral cables, MED Nautilus, SMW3-4 and IMEWE
Protection of the optical link via meshed architecture
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Key Regional Backbones
Europe and Mediterranean Basin
Fully resilient pan-European backbone covering 13 countries
Med Nautilus submarine cable: Italy, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Cyprus
New submarine cable Athens-Istanbul (Launched 1Q 2011)
SMW4 cable: France, Italy, Egypt, Gulf, India, South-East Asia
IMEWE cable: France, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United
Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India (Launched Dec. 2010)
 Bilateral cables with Monaco, Spain, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia,
Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta, Israel, Tunisia and Libya
 Other Cable Consortia: SMW3 (Europe, Far East), SAT-3 (Europe,
West Africa), ATLANTIS-2 (Europe, West Africa, South America)
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Americas
 IP network in US
 LANautilus backbone in 8 countries: US, Argentina,
Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
 Capacity across the Atlantic and the Pacific
Data as of January 2013
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TI Sparkle Positioning
Top WW Voice Carriers
IP Ranking WW - Renesys
2012 Bn Mins – Traffic volumes worldwide
Level 3
Global Crossing
TeliaNet
Inteliquent (ex Tinet)
NTT Communications
Cogent Communications
Sprint
Tata Communications
TI Sparkle
PCCW Global
Source: Internal Sources, Telegeography Data 2012
VOICE
MOBILE
IP&DATA
MNCs
Major Int’l IP Routes in Africa, 2012
Sept '12
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Italy
Source: Renesys
#9 for worldwide traffic collected on an international basis and 5# on pure wholesale basis
Among the few global players active today within the wholesale mobile market
 “Seabone”, TI Sparkle IP Backbone, ranked #1 in the Mediterranean, #3 in Europe, #9 worldwide (Renesys)
 On a regional basis, “Seabone” ranked # 2 in Africa and Latam and # 3 in Asia (Telegeography)
#1 in Italy, challenger in Europe and emerging player on the global market
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Italy as Key Mediterranean Gateway to EU and the Internet
Sparkle Sicily Gateway
Sparkle as Main Internet Hub for Africa
Italy
PAN EUROPEAN
BACKBONE
to Miami
to Tetouan
Palermo
Trapani
Mazara
to Athens
Catania
MN
SM
W
-4
IM
EW
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to Kelibia
SM W - 3
to Istanbul
to
Alexandria
to Tripoli
to Malta
 Sicily is a natural crossroads for all major Submarine
Cable Systems crossing the Mediterranean Sea
 Dual IP POP architecture in Palermo & Catania
provides express and robust access to the Big Internet
by insuring high reliability and performance
 Most popular and requested global contents locally
stored ensuring eyeballs best Internet experience
Source: TeleGeography 2013
A full portfolio
of carrier grade
services
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IP: Seabone Internet transit, Security, EoMPLS transport, IPv6 Ready
Backhaul: Palermo SMW4 Gateway, Mazara SMW3 Bypass
Submarine cable capacity
Landing Station interconnection
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TI Sparkle Strategy
Overall Strategy
Financial
Sustanability
Customeroriented
organization
Business Strategy
Portfolio
extension
VOICE
Safe Simple &
Valued
 Rationalize current business
and growth in highly
profitable segments
Guidelines
Boost the Top
Line
Confirm cost
leadership
Sustain
transformation
through
investments
Actions
MOBILE
DATA Exploit Hub Role &  IPX Commercial Launch,
Commercial focus and know-
Growth
IP&
DATA
Selected
Investment &
Growth
 Service portfolio enrichment with over-theconnectivity services
 Core assets management and reach expansion
 New Capabilities (Datacenters/Cloud, network APIs,
QoS)
 Maximize efficiency on core activities
MNCs
Synergies with TI
& Focus on
Selected Countries
how
 Exploit New assets & capacity
increase, Gain efficiency and
launch over the connectivity
services
 A focused organization to
support Italian MNCs
development, MNCs services to
Carriers and Target specific
markets for A-end business
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Strategic Focus on the Mediterranean and South-East Asia
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IMEWE Cable
Launched Dec. 2010
3 fiber pairs @ 128x10 Gbps λ’s
Design capacity: 3.84 Tbps
Initial capacity: 260 Gbps
Cable length: ~12,000 km
 IMEWE reinforces Italy’s role as main infrastructural Hub in the Mediterranean connecting
Middle East and South-East Asia to Europe
 As one of the founding member of the IMEWE, TI Sparkle has partnered with major
international operators to capture the high traffic growth in emerging markets driven by large
demand for broadband services
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Balkans Backbone as Alternative Route to Europe
 MedNautilus and Pan-European Backbones
integration
 Entry to Turkey thanks to the completion of
the Athens-Istanbul submarine cable
(Launched 1Q 2011)
 Terrestrial backbone across main markets
in East Europe (Romania, Hungary and
Bulgaria) to connect Istanbul POP to PEB
 New Balkans Backbone connecting Istanbul to Wien and Bratislava with Points of
Presence in Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest
 New submarine cable Athens-Istanbul (Launched 1Q 2011)
 Unique protection from Istanbul to Europe through terrestrial and submarine network
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Cloud Solutions & Next Generation Data Centers
A new suite of highly flexible and scalable IaaS Cloud Solutions
TI Sparkle, with the expertise of Telecom Italia Group (leading cloud provider in Europe), now offers a new range
of enhanced Cloud Solutions catering to corporate customer’s needs in the Mediterranean Basin
From traditional Co-location to an enhanced portfolio to cater the growing needs of the
Corporate segment
Integrated IaaS services, from Co-location to Virtual Hosting
High level of scalability and flexibility with an easy-to-build combination of
modular building blocks fulfilling customer’s needs
A Regional NGDs (Next Generation Datacenter) Network: Istanbul, Athens and Catania
Leveraging on our network capabilities and a unique and protected combination of terrestrial and submarine
connectivity to Europe we are also creating a network of Data Centers in the Mediterranean with the aim of
developing a Disaster Recovery Solution
ISTANBUL
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Cloud IaaS Solutions up & ready
PaaS & SaaS by end 2012
Disaster Recovery by end 2012
Colo&Housing in service
Cloud IaaS Solutions up & ready
Disaster Recovery, PaaS & SaaS 2013
Colo&Housing in service
Disaster Recovery 2013
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TI Sparkle and the i3 Forum
TI Sparkle is a co-founding member of the i3 Forum an international body which comprises of more than
37 among major telecommunication operators
worldwide - that develops guidelines for secure and
high-quality IP Interconnections and it is contributing
to the IPX model specifications within GSMA
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TI Sparkle is a leader and a pioneer in the VoIP business and has been running a full IP
softswitch multi-service network with global MPLS capabilities since 2004
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TI Sparkle is one of the first service providers to design an IPX solution compliant with
i3 Forum and GSMA specifications and one of the first operators to successfully
migrate its bilateral traffic to IP with the main global carriers
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Today TI Sparkle offers an IPX solution devised for both fixed and mobile operators and
able to support existing and next-generation IP-based services
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Table of Content
Telecom Italia Overview
Telecom Italia Sparkle
TI Sparkle Network
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European and Mediterranean Networks
 2 dark fibre backbones
 Different cable/routing for enhancing network reliability
 Implementation of a meshed topology with at least 3 different legs into the main PoPs
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Americas Backbone
 Extended IP network in North America and
pan-regional fiber backbone in South
America
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Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Network
 TI Sparkle manages a
unique and seamless
state-of-the-art network
with a full coverage in
Western Europe, Eastern
Europe and the
Mediterranean Basin
and a significant
presence in Asia and
Middle East
 In particular, through TI
Sparkle's global
network, operators in
fast-growing markets of
Asia and Middle East
have access to
worldwide contents with
unrivalled performance
through a 2-way path
connecting TI Sparkle’s
Asian network to Europe
and US, both East and
Westbound
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