Global telecommunications provider Sparkle has expanded its U.S. infrastructure footprint with the launch of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in San Diego, California. The move is a strategic effort to enhance connectivity across North and South America while reinforcing Sparkle’s position as a key player in the international internet backbone market.
Located within MDC’s carrier-neutral data center, the San Diego PoP is directly integrated into Sparkle’s Tier-1 global IP backbone, Seabone. This backbone currently spans 52 locations across the Americas, including major hubs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and various U.S. cities. The new site complements existing PoPs in McAllen, El Paso, and Dallas (U.S.), as well as Queretaro (Mexico), and is designed to ensure added redundancy and diverse routing options for regional and international clients.
Sparkle leverages a blend of terrestrial and submarine cables to deliver five distinct routes connecting South and North America. These include three operational subsea systems – Curie in the Pacific, and Monet and Seabras-1 in the Atlantic – with the Manta cable expected to join soon. This multi-path architecture enables high-throughput, low-latency data transport, a crucial factor for today’s bandwidth-intensive applications.
CDNs, ISPs, OTT, Cloud, Aplications
With capacities reaching terabits per second, the San Diego PoP would offer a robust platform for content delivery networks (CDNs), internet service providers (ISPs), OTT platforms, and cloud and application providers. Beyond IP transit, Sparkle offers services such as Virtual NAP, enabling access to top global Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) without physical infrastructure deployment, and DDoS Protection, designed to shield networks from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
This latest deployment signals Sparkle’s ongoing commitment to strengthening digital infrastructure across the Americas, supporting the growing demands of AI, video streaming, and enterprise connectivity with greater speed and resilience.
