A new technological milestone for telecommunications: Open Fiber has completed a experimentation which allows you to transport up to 81,6 terabits per second on a single optical fiber, using 34 channels of 2,4 terabits each. The test was carried out along Open Fiber's Zion network, which crosses the Strait of Messina, and has allowed improving network efficiency by reducing the number of devices needed to manage infrastructures. This translates into savings on energy consumption and optimized use of space, thus responding to the growing needs of distributed data centers (edge data centers) and faster and more stable local connections.
Innovation has a significant impact on the Sicilia, where Open Fiber has extended its fiber optic network over 13 kilometers, connecting 1,4 million real estate units, including more than a thousand schools and 4.500 electrical substations. This development allows the region to face future technological challenges with a solid and widespread infrastructure, ready to support the evolution of telecommunications.
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“We are always looking for technological innovation to efficiently and reliably expand network capacity, with a particular focus on the use of future-proof, sustainable, secure and green solutions,” said Nicola Fat, Director of Technology at Open Fiber –. The 81,6 Tbps test on our Zion is a milestone in maximizing the integration of network resources and providing users with faster and more reliable services, building a very high-capacity digital highway. A possible first application is the implementation of very high-capacity connections in the Edge Data Center Interconnection (DCI) scenario. With the use of this new platform, Open Fiber will also be able to provide extremely reliable services with very low latency, with the possibility of carrying the traffic of all national operators for decades to come, thanks to a wholesale model closely tied to Open Fiber's mission”.
