Open Fiber enters the list of operators connected to theOpen Hub Med by Carini (Palermo), a consortium company developed by companies that in the last twenty years have participated in the evolution and opening up of the market for data networks in Italy: Eolo, Equinix Italia Enterprises, Fastweb., In-Site S, GTT Italy, Italtel., MIX (Milan Internet Exchange), Retelit., SUPERNAP Italia, VueTel Italia and Rete XMED.
Open Hub Med is also the hub that allows different providers to exchange Internet traffic with each other. The consortium aims to encourage the development of a major communications hub in Southern Italy which, together with that of the Milan area, enhances the country as a major international and national telecommunications hub.
“The Sicilian interconnection hub thus becomes to all intents and purposes the site of a node of the national network entirely in optical fiber of Open Fiber" explains the company which underlines how the agreement represents "a valuable investment, all the more so in the face of the possibility of establishing more intense international relations and strengthening its status as a neutral operatorwholesale only”.
“Our presence in OHM – he comments Simone Bonannini, Marketing & Commercial Director of Open Fiber – is strategic because it makes it possible to access our network in a point of extreme importance for the Mediterranean basin. The OF network is and will always be open to all interested operators”.
Valeria Rossi, president of the consortium, adds: “OHM is the greatest opportunity to place Italy at the center of one of the richest Mediterranean areas in the field of international submarine data tracts whose potential is constantly growing. The presence of an Open Fiber infrastructural node in OHM reinforces its role as an open and neutral digital pole which fits into the development agenda of wide-ranging digital services wanted by the consortium operators".
