Telecoms: Italy

MAN network in Bologna deployed by Lepida

Despite the current uncertainties regarding nationwide NGN infrastructure building, some regional programs are progressing at full speed, like in Bologna, where a new MAN network is going live.

To ease fibre deployment in a big cities of medieval fame and home of the oldest University in the Western world, high-tech came to the rescue in the form of a very flexible compact high fibres count cable supplied by Tratos Cavi.

312 fiber cable by Tratos

The 21 mm outer diameter cable hosts 312 fibres organized in two rings of 10+16 loose tubes, each one containing 12 fibres.

This advanced cable has been custom designed by Tratos Cavi thanks to joint R&D activities with Lepida, in order to meet both the stringent performance requirements in term of density, low attenuation, low PMD (polarization mode dispersion), zero water peak  and the extreme strenght and flexibility to be installed in existing ducts.

Fibre cable used Bologna's MAN

According to Lepida, the local network companies running the Bologna MAN project, the cable was indeed powerful and flexible enough to be installed also in difficult ducts not originally designed for telecom applications.

The Bologna’s MAN is part of a bigger project financed by the regional government of Emilia Romagna and other local institutions to support competiveness through better telecom infrastructure.