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General description, expertise and role in the project |
Founded in September 1999, Fastweb
Group is the leading alternative operator of fixed
broadband telecommunications services in Italy’s main
urban areas.
Fastweb, with own laboratory in
Milan, has developed a new generation of
telecommunications networks and services providing a
complete alternative to traditional telephone networks
in the main metropolitan areas of Italy (Milan, Rome,
Turin, Genoa, Venice, Padua, Bologna, Naples, Bari and
Alessandria) and in several smaller cities (including
Biella, Modena and Reggio Emilia).
FASTWEB’s competitive advantage
over other telecommunications companies, is based on its
breakthrough technological solution: FASTWEB was the
first company in the world to combine the extensive use
of IP (Internet Protocol) for the integrated management
of voice, data and video through packet-switching with
its fibre optic and xDSL network. In this way the
Company reached two objectives: firstly to offer its
clients practically unlimited bandwidth and secondly to
maximize the efficiency of its investments in
infrastructure. With this network platform, FASTWEB was
able to integrate previously separate functions and
develop innovative, value-added services, that can be
used simultaneously over a single connection.
FASTWEB provides a wide range of
services - telephony, broadband Internet connectivity,
advanced video-communication (video-conferencing for
businesses and video-telephony for residential
customers), virtual private networks (VPN), audio and
video streaming, business-to-employee (B2E),
tele-surveillance, digital and interactive TV and
Video-on-Demand services - to all market segments
ranging from large, small and medium sized businesses,
small offices and home offices to residential customers.
Access to the end-user is provided directly through
fibre optics (with Fibre-to-the-Home/Fibre-to-the-Office
solutions) or through xDSL technology over unbundled
lines.
The total number of person-months dedicated to the
POF-ALL project is 33. |
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Facilities |
The extension of Fastweb fiberoptic
networwk is about 15.000Km in all Italy, of which more
than 7,000 km of local access. In the cities covered by
our services we have totally about 40 POPs with all
devices for transport our services over IP protocol. Our
“Webfarm” in Milan all devices dedicated on the video
service broadcasting are installed. In our Laboratory
in Milan all functionalities of the fiber network
architecture like backbone, POP, minipop and access last
mile are emulated.
For the ADSL services in the
laboratory we have Emulated 6 DSLAM and 2 Central
Office. In the laboratories the following measurements
can be performed:
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Performance of transport all service on IP protocol
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characteristics parameters of fibre network
- Compatibility of new fiber,
passive and active new components of the network
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