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Sparkle, the first international service operator in Italy and among the first in the world, has received three important awards at the Carrier Community Global Awards, held in Berlin during the Europe 2026 GCCM event: “Best AI Project of the Year”, “Best Disruptive Solution & Project of the Year” and “Best NaaS Platform Provider”.
Now in its tenth year, the CC Global Awards celebrate excellence, innovation and leadership in the global wholesale telecommunications industry and are judged by an independent panel of industry analysts and experts.
Taken together, the three awards recognize Sparkle's end-to-end transformation across the three strategic pillars of next-generation digital infrastructure: AI trust models, innovative security architectures, and programmable Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platforms.
With the award “Best AI Project of the Year”, the jury awarded Symmetric TLS for Agentic AI Sparkle's STLS-AI (STLS-AI), a patent-pending trust solution specifically designed for the Agentic AI era. Rather than relying on traditional certificate-based trust models, STLS-AI offers a symmetric, certificate-free trust mechanism resilient to quantum threats at the transport layer, enabling instant authentication, verifiable identity, and scalable trust relationships between autonomous entities.
The award “Best Disruptive Solution & Project of the Year” recognizes STLS-AI as a revolutionary and transformative service in the telecommunications and technology sectors. By eliminating dependence on PKI infrastructures and integrating cryptographic identity directly into communications, STLS-AI reduces complexity while improving scalability and security. The solution is already moving beyond the conceptual phase, with validation activities conducted in operator environments confirming its applicability in real-world digital infrastructure contexts.
The award “Best NaaS Platform Provider” enhances the evolution achieved by Sparkle, which has transformed the model Network as a Service in a fully programmable platform that combines on-demand connectivity, cloud integration, automated service lifecycle management and integrated security through Quantum Safe Interconnect (QSI), offering crypto-agile and quantum-resilient protection for all Sparkle global connectivity services.
"We are honored and proud to see our innovation recognized once again by the global telecommunications industry.", commented Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle. “These awards reflect a unique transformation journey: the creation of a new generation of digital services where trust, security, and connectivity are no longer separate layers, but part of the same programmable digital platform. This recognition confirms the consistency of our vision and encourages us to continue investing in technologies that will shape the future of digital ecosystems.. "
About Sparkle
Sparkle is TIM Group’s global operator: first international service provider in Italy and among the first worldwide, it offers a full range of infrastructure and global connectivity services – capacity, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming and voice – to national and international carriers, OTTs, ISPs, Media/Content Providers and multinational enterprises. Leading operator in the submarine cable industry, Sparkle operates a proprietary fiber optic network spanning over 600.000 km across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia. Sparkle’s sales force is active worldwide with a direct presence in 32 countries.
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