For the first time, the Italian research and education network GARR and the pan-European network GÉANT have successfully connected two data centres over 1000 km apart: the national computing centre CNAF of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Bologna, and CERN in Geneva, with a capacity of 1.6 Tbps and a latency of just 9.5 milliseconds , thanks to multi-domain shared spectrum .