National Digital infrastructure

The GARR network interconnects at ultra-high capacity universities, research centres, libraries, museums, schools and other education, science, culture and innovation facilities.

The fibre optic infrastructure is based on leading-edge telecommunication technologies and covers more than 24.000 km of backbone and access links.

Here's the English translation: Today the overall backbone capacity is in the order of thousands of Gbps, while a single access link can reach 200 Gbps. Thanks to the great scalability of the technologies used, the capacities of links and backbone routes can easily evolve together with users' needs.

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Last update: July 2024

Quality

The network’s features entail very low transmission delays, thus it is ideally suited not only for transferring very large amounts of data, but also for real-time data transmissions and HD audio-visual communication.

High capacity and coverage

With more than 100 Points of Presence distributed throughout the national territory, the GARR network provides symmetric, high-capacity connectivity and advanced services to more than 1.000 user sites including universities, music conservatories and art academies, research centres, laboratories, observatories, museums, libraries, schools and more.

Scalability

As the infrastructure is almost entirely based on fibre optics and managed in-house by GARR, it is possible to swiftly respond to the user community’s latest requirements by upgrading links and adding new ones without interfering with the network’s global performance.

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