(Finance) – It starts from the industrial area and then continues towards the city center. To Arzignano (Vicenza) work has begun on Open Fiber to realize the new full fiber optic FTTH network (Fiber To The Home, fiber up to home). “This is – explains Open Fiber in a note – the best technology currently available on the market which is capable of reaching a connection speed of up to 10 Gigabit per second”.
To build the FTTH infrastructure, the company led by Mario Rossettiin the Venetian city, will invest over 4 million euros of private resources to wire about 9 thousand real estate units between homes, shops and offices. The infrastructure will develop for over 125 kilometers (equal to approximately 5,000 km of fiber to be laid) and the procedures for carrying out the interventions will be governed by the agreement signed between the Municipality and Open Fiber.
“Open Fiber’s investment of over 4 million euros dedicated to Arzignano will allow further expansion and strengthening of the high-speed network infrastructure serving the city – he explains Alessia Bevilacqua, mayor of Arzignano -. All this will allow our fellow citizens more opportunities to access digital services available on the web: not only films, video games and music, but will improve the possibility of working and studying from home, and for companies to enhance their competitiveness. We are happy with this convention that will help our citizens and companies to fully grasp all the innovations offered by this fast digital race towards the future “.
“To equip Arzignano with an FTTH infrastructure – he underlined Alberto Sperandio, regional manager of Open Fiber in Veneto – it means putting the city in a position to exploit all the latest generation digital services. Citizens and businesses will thus be able to benefit from services such as teleworking, distance learning, telemedicine, advanced public administration services, online streaming in HD and 4k and the Internet of Things to name a few “.