Network infrastructure
High performance for professional quality Voice, Data and Cloud services
Based on a state-of-the-art infrastructure (NGN), the Vianova network is the backbone of all the company’s transmission services and allows the provision of telecommunications and IT services with the highest levels of reliability, security and low latency.
The network interconnects all the PoPs and collection areas of the national territory to the core nodes, hosted in Pisa and Massarosa Data Centres and in Milan, with high-capacity optical fibre and diversified geographical routing to to ensure service continuity and outstanding performance.
The Data Centres in Pisa, Massarosa (Lucca) and Turin are connected by multiple fibre rings and host the technological platforms for delivering all Vianova services, in a protected, 24/7 monitored, permanently connected environment.
Access network
Vianova uses the best access technologies (FTTH, FTTC, xDSL, Wireless, etc.) available in the areas where customers’ offices are located and installs lines dedicated exclusively to Vianova services, which are activated only after a successful technical check.
Point of Presence
The PoPs (Points of Presence) located throughout the region allow the collection of traffic from all transport technologies and protocols (Dark Fibre, DWDM, Ethernet, FTTx, Wireless, etc.). Voice and Data traffic is routed on separate dedicated circuits, configured with guaranteed and controlled minimum bandwidth to ensure quality of service (QoS).
Disaster Recovery
Service continuity is also ensured in the event of major critical situations (disaster recovery) thanks to the geographical redundancy implemented through the Data Centers in Pisa and Massarosa and the core node in Milan. The infrastructures are interconnected through multiple fiber optic rings, with diversified access points and routes, featuring scalable capacity in multiples of 100 Gbps (DWDM technology), over which an IP/MPLS network has been built with switching times of less than 150 ms.
Internet
A proprietary fiber optic transport network, extending over more than 3,600 km and with capacity up to 80 Gbps, connects the MIX interconnection node in Milan and the NaMeX node in Rome to the Vianova Group Data Centers through diversified routes, ensuring high-speed Internet connectivity.
Direct peering agreements established with the main Italian and international telecommunications operators (including CDNs) at the leading Italian and European interconnection points help reduce the number of hops and latency times, facilitating Internet traffic exchange.
A direct Private Network Interconnect (PNI) connection with Google further enhances traffic management efficiency for Customers.
Vianova is a Mobile operator that uses, thanks to a roaming agreement, the wireless access network of Fastweb (formerly Vodafone).
To ensure business continuity, the proprietary Mobile network infrastructures (GGSN, SBC, HLR, etc.) are co-located and redundant locally and geographically in the Massarosa and Pisa Data Centres, which in turn are interconnected to the geographical PoPs of Milan and Rome.
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Transport network
A high-capacity, redundant transport network dedicated to our Customers, to enable secure connections to our Data Centres and core nodes.
Control system
A sophisticated measurement and control system that allows real-time monitoring of Voice and Data traffic divided by each individual area, in order to size the transport network with transmission capacities that are always higher than the maximum usage peaks of our Customers.
Customer area
An area of our website reserved for Customers where, with a view to a relationship of maximum transparency, we report a graph of actual bandwidth consumption, selectable for each individual location, which is automatically updated every minute.
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CONTACT USThe network infrastructure in numbers
Data Center e Nodo Core
Nodo Core
Data Center
Collection areas
Point of Presence (PoP)
Proprietary backbone network
3.600
Km of proprietary optical fibre (DWDM).
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Locally and geographically redundated and syncronized Data Centers in the Pisa, Massarosa, and Turin facilities.
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Core nodes locally and geographically redundant, synchronized across the facilities in Pisa, Massarosa and Milan.
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PoPs colocated within national infrastructures for direct DWDM, Dark Fiber, Ethernet, FTTC, FTTH and PSTN access, connected via fiber optics and redundantly linked to the Data Centers in Pisa and Massarosa.
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PoPs colocated within the MNO infrastructure for access to the Mobile network, connected via fiber optics and redundantly linked to the Data Centers in Pisa and Massarosa.
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Interconnections at the main Italian and European exchange points, along with a direct connection to Google through a Private Network Interconnect (PNI).
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Direct peering with Autonomous Systems at the MIX in Milan, NaMeX in Rome, TIX in Florence, VSIX in Padua, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, DE-CIX in Frankfurt and Marseille, LINX in London, and France-IX in Paris.
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Interconnections with the Collection Areas, redundantly linked to the Data Centers.
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10 Gbps (80 Gbps) circuits connecting the MIX and NaMeX nodes to the Data Centers.
3
Direct 100 Gbps transit connections with international carriers Arelion (formerly Telia), Colt (formerly Level 3), and TI Sparkle for Full Internet Routing Table termination.
