{"id":138523,"date":"2025-06-11T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/06\/sparkle-firmato-protocollo-dintesa-per-costruzione-sistema-cavi-sottomarini-asia-africa-europe-2-aae-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:05:37","slug":"sparkle-firmato-protocollo-dintesa-per-costruzione-sistema-cavi-sottomarini-asia-africa-europe-2-aae-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-economica\/2025\/06\/sparkle-firmato-protocollo-dintesa-per-costruzione-sistema-cavi-sottomarini-asia-africa-europe-2-aae-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkle signs Memorandum of Understanding for construction of Asia\u2013Africa\u2013Europe-2 (AAE-2) submarine cable system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sparkle has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with PCCW Global, Telecom Egypt and Zain Omantel International (ZOI) for the construction of the Asia\u2013Africa\u2013Europe-2 (AAE-2) submarine cable system. The consortium aims to establish a strong, next-generation digital link between Hong Kong, Singapore and Italy, leveraging secure, high-capacity land corridors across Thailand, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>This ambitious project seeks to transform global connectivity by delivering a resilient, high-performance, and geographically diverse data infrastructure connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Along its route, the system will include extensions to strategic locations, further enhancing intercontinental connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>By integrating cutting-edge technologies across both submarine and terrestrial segments, AAE-2 will offer unprecedented bandwidth capacity, meeting the growing demand for cloud services, content delivery and digital transformation. The consortium is thus committed to building a solid, scalable infrastructure that will be vital to the future of global connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sparkle has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with PCCW Global, Telecom Egypt and Zain Omantel International (ZOI) for the construction of the Asia\u2013Africa\u2013Europe-2 (AAE-2) submarine cable system. The consortium aims to establish a strong, next-generation digital link between Hong Kong, Singapore and Italy, leveraging secure, high-capacity land corridors across Thailand, the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":138519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[31,45,3,9],"class_list":["post-138523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-economica","tag-africa","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138524,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138523\/revisions\/138524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}