Open Fiber starts commercial trial of 200Gbps connection between Rome & Florence

Open Fiber, which is part-owned by electricity company Enel, says that the fibre is software-controlled and can be scaled down to 100Gbps or up to 400Gbps.

"Where typically the big fibre links stop at 40Gbps in Italy, we are the first in Italy and among the first in Europe to achieve these performances," said Stefano Paggi, Open Fiber CTO.

The system uses reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADM) and Flex Grid technologies from Huawei.

Richard Jin, president of Huawei’s transmission network product line, said: "Huawei built an elastic 200G OTN [optical transport network] for Open Fiber to provide an optimal user experience and to help Open Fiber succeed."

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