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Integrating the IoT: Beyond the Yellow Submarine

August 31, 2022

Sparkle’s Daniele Mancuso highlights how a company that built submarine cables has transformed to enable IoT connectivity by bundling LSO Sonata underlays with a highly intelligent overlay that classifies applications within an intelligent WAN—enabling a new business model, new revenue streams, and clear use cases on land and sea.



In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Daniele Mancuso of Sparkle:



  • Where does connectivity intersect with cloud, edge services, edge computing, IoT, and security?
  • How can service providers horizontally integrate with vertical services using east-west capabilities to enable the Internet of Things?
  • Why is Web 3.0 based on distributed intelligence through distributed ledger technology?
  • What role do decentralized digital IDs with verified credentials play in an Integrated Trust Network? 
  • Why can’t telecoms do it all and why don’t we have to?


About Our Guest

Daniele Mancuso, SVP Chief Product Management, Sparkle


Daniele Mancuso is SVP Chief Product Management at Sparkle, in charge to develop the Group’s entire product portfolio.

In the previous years, he served as Chief Marketing Solutions & Business Development, EVP ICT Engineering and Director Innovation & Engineering.

Daniele brings nearly 30 years of broad commercial and technical experience in building and marketing telecom networks and associated products, both for the wholesale and enterprise markets, spanning from submarine cables to L1/L3 transport services, from Carrier Ethernet to SD-WAN & Multicloud, from wholesale voice to cloud-based unified communication & collaboration platforms and Multimessaging.

During his years of technological leadership Daniele initiated the transformation of Sparkle towards an API-centric Global Service Platform, introducing the pillars of software-defined, virtualized and programmable networks as well as the full commitment of the Company to contribute and follow MEF standards & certification programs, of which he’s a total believer & supporter.

He is frequently invited as speaker at industry events to share his vision, experience and execution challenges.

Daniele holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania.

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