The creation of an infrastructure of fiber optic ultra-broadband network it is no small mission. This is an impressive goal that Open Fiber is pursuing, trying to provide citizens, businesses and the public administration with increasingly advanced services and functions.
At the basis of such an important mission is the will to innovate and continue to experiment with new solutions that allow Italy to grow. And it is in this context that the partnership between Open Fiber and Quick!, spin off of the University of Basilicata, to which the company led by Mario Rossetti has entrusted the delicate task of predicting, through big data and artificial intelligence, where commercial development can be achieved more quickly.
Quick!: artificial intelligence at the service of optical fiber
Quick! – a reality entirely from Basilicata and Potenza – is one of the rest ten best Italian start-ups of 2021, a record certified by Digitalic which recognized the high innovative impact of the spin-off within the University of Basilicata. Formed by a team of 18 "brains" with roots planted in the Data Management research group led by Professor Giansalvatore Mecca, the start-up has made artificial intelligence and the management of so-called big data its raison d'etre.
Tiresias the "soothsayer" software of the optical fiber
The collaboration between Open Fiber and Svelto! gave birth to Tiresias, a project based on artificial intelligence and machine learning that exploits the predictive capabilities of AI algorithms to plan the laying of the optical fiber, anticipating the demand for ultra-broadband and speeding up construction sites.
The creation of a new network infrastructure is, on the other hand, an articulated and constantly evolving process. The question that Open Fiber asked itself was: if all the areas where it is not yet present were cabled, which would be the areas with the best commercial performance after a certain period of time?
This question is answered today by “Tiresia”, software powered by millions and millions of data ranging from the Istat census to Open Fiber orders up to information from entities such as Infratel and Agcom. And thanks to the technological approach that involves the use of machine learning and neural networks, the more it is queried, the more accurate the software becomes in its predictions. So reliable as to push Open Fiber – the main Italian operator of FTTH optical fiber and one of the leaders in Europe with 14,5 million property units already connected in August 2022 – to put in its hands an investment plan of 15 billion euro.
