Five Alpine huts in the territories of the Unione Montana Valli di Lanzo, Ceronda e Casternone and the Unione Montana Alpi Graie can finally benefit from fast Internet connections. These are the Paolo Daviso refuge in Groscavallo (2,280 metres), the Bartolomeo Gastaldi refuge in Balme (2,659 metres), the Luigi Cibrario refuge in Usseglio (2,616 metres), the Ernesto Tazzetti refuge in Usseglio (2,642 metres) and the Vulpot refuge, which stands at 1,805 metres on the Malciaussia Lake.

The project originated from a specific request by the Unione Montana di Comuni delle Valli di Lanzo, Ceronda e Casternone and the Unione Montana Alpi Graie to activate a network infrastructure in the Lanzo Valleys area, taking advantage of the reactivation of the optical fibre backbone along the Turin-Ceres railway line, owned by the Mountain Unions themselves (UUMM).

The Città Metropolitana di Torino allocated a contribution of EUR 41,000, in addition to the funds made available by the UUMM. Additionally, as part of the Community Networks initiative, Internet Society (ISOC) provided TOP-IX with a contribution for the reactivation of the optical fibre backbone between Turin and Ceres and the creation of two nodes at stations at Germagnano and Ceres railway stations. These two stations have excellent visibility towards some UUMM transmission towers, useful for the distribution of radio connectivity services in the Valleys.

For the realization of the Alpine Huts connectivity project, the availability of the network operators belonging to the TOP-IX Consortium was requested and, following technical and economic evaluations, the operator Erre Elle Net was selected. It set up quickly the infrastructure necessary to provide connectivity services at the Alpine huts.

The network infrastructure is available to the Consortium operators to provide broadband connectivity in the area covered by the Mountain Union, both for the population and for business activities. This provides an important service for enhancing the territory, making it more attractive than typical mountain areas.

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Two of the major Italian Internet eXchange Points start from Sicily to create a bridge to connect the Mediterranean area.

Promote the deployment of Ultra Broadband in Italy. This is the objective of the agreement between Top-IX and NaMeX, two of the major Italian Internet eXchange Points (IXP) who plans to create a bridge to connect the Mediterranean area, starting from the newly born aggregation point in Palermo.

NaMeX and Topix have created a new service, IXPConnect, that has the dual target of putting the IP networks of the emerging markets in touch with the heart of the Italian Internet, and of offering new development opportunities for the network, in the areas that suffer a major digital divide, with the aim of improving the overall national and international connectivity of our country.
The two IXP’s, whose members are the major domestic and international operators, have developed a service that allows the local Internet Service Provider (ISP) to interconnect to the large neutral Internet access points in Rome and in Turin from their native territories, by creating local aggregation points that act as facilitators and enablers for the development of broadband services and of digital infrastructure in areas with less coverage.

The first aggregation point has been opened in Palermo, within the Sicily Hub, the new datacenter of Telecom Italia Sparkle, that connects in a single location all the backhauls to the subsea cables that land in Sicily and allow to reach Europe from the Mediterranean countries, Middle East and Asia, with active cooperation from Brocade who has supplied the equipment.
The large operators who arrive in Sicily using the subsea cable systems will find a readily available interconnection infrastructure that can transport them directly into the heart of the important access points in Rome e Turin, thus contributing to enhance the importance of our country as a privileged point for transit to and from Europe.

After Palermo, IXPConnect plans to open other aggregation point in Italy and add new IXPs, to promote the development of Internet traffic in areas with less connection infrastructure: Campania, Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Molise, Puglia, Valle d’Aosta and Veneto will be the next regions that will host an IXPConnect aggregation and access point.

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Turin EBP regional workshop aims at helping Piedmont Region with its implementation of the broadband strategy and development of internet access in remote areas. The targeted audience is people involved in policy and practice of ICT, particularly those involved in the future of the internet, such as public sector policy makers and innovators in sectors like health, education, government, industry and e-business. Also encouraged to participate are Infrastructure owners, service providers and ISPs (Internet Service Providers), Telecoms and IT industry representatives.

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