ROME and SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Telecom Italia Sparkle, a leading global telecommunications service provider and CDNetworks, a top tier, full-service global content delivery network, today announced a strategic partnership that enables Telecom Italia Sparkle to provide content delivery services to customers across Europe. The strategic partnership expands Telecom Italia Sparkle’s service portfolio with the addition of CDNetworks’ full suite of advanced content delivery solutions for media delivery, content acceleration, and software and other file downloads.

“This partnership enables us to offer a new category of services to our customers, backed by one of the world’s leading content delivery network companies - CDNetworks,” said Arturo Danesi, executive vice president, head of marketing wholesale for Telecom Italia Sparkle. “The combination of CDNetworks’ advanced content delivery technology and Telecom Italia Sparkle’s global network infrastructure and strong operational capabilities will allow us to provide a very compelling solution to our customers.”

Telecom Italia (TIM)

CDNetworks Co. Ltd.