RETN Expands Milan-Marseille Network

London, Milan - October 16, 2023 

Reaching four Continents, having an extensive network in the Mediterranean area, Italy and Europe, and established expertise in managing submarine cable landing solutions, Retelit is the ideal provider for international operators and hyperscalers for the roll-out of telco projects that require a robust, resilient owned infrastructure with broad domestic and international coverage.

RETN has chosen Retelit Group's "Spectrum Sharing" solution, a service designed to provide significant and scalable transmission capacity through Retelit’s physical network infrastructure. Retelit's Spectrum Sharing offers a middle-ground solution between inflexible traditional transport options and costlier, more complex dark fibre alternatives.

With the partnership, RETN expands its global network from Milan to Marseille on a route that is particularly attractive for international service providers and submarine cable traffic.

The Spectrum technical solution proposed by Retelit, which involves virtualisation of the optical layer and its decoupling from the electrical traffic layer, is designed for operators who need to have major capacity cuts and to maintain full control and monitoring of their infrastructural asset, while fully guaranteeing operability.

"We have built and customised on the needs of RETN, among the leading network providers in Europe, a transport solution that ensures quality and scalability. The agreement once again demonstrates Retelit's international positioning, which is chosen by global operators for the quality of its solutions and the very high level of customisation of its telco services. With the technological aspects of our service, RETN will enjoy significant benefits for its future capacity upgrades. In fact, our scalable and flexible solution will evolve with our client's needs and requirements, offering them a simpler operating model capable of supporting expansion and growth activities” - stated Diego Teot, Head of Retelit’s Wholesale.

Milko Ilari, Managing Director of RETN Italy and Head of Southern Europe Region at RETN, advised: “Milan-Marseille is one of Italy’s most important routes and over the past three years we have seen a massive increase in demand from our customers due to growing traffic on the network. With Retelit we are leading the way for stronger and more reliable network connectivity in Northern Italy and beyond”.

About RETN

RETN is one of the fastest growing independent Eurasian network services providers, with unique resources to connect Europe and Asia. It offers a wide range of connectivity services, such as IP transit, Ethernet & VPN, Capacity, Remote peering to major IXPs, Colocation and Cloud Connect. Encompassing more than 132,000km across 865+ PoPs, it allows RETN to have maximum control of its physical network, which is running on leading equipment vendors such as Infinera, Juniper and Ciena.

RETN’s unique solution to connect Europe and Asia is built on its own homogenous DWDM and IP/MPLS Network Platform and widely branched land routes, passing through Western Europe, Eastern Europe and up to the border with China and further onwards into Southeast Asia. 

RETN provides telecommunication services throughout its Eurasian network with short lead times, industry leading uptimes, and multiple layers of redundancy.

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About Retelit Group

Retelit is Italy's largest telecommunications player focused on the B2B market and the largest the Italian leader in constructing tailor-made digital transformation projects, executed on entirely Group-managed platforms. In our 20 years, we have been the ideal partner for enterprises, the public sector and operators seeking to tackle head-on the challenges of innovation, thanks to a range which covers the entire value chain of ICT and digitalisation services, from infrastructure to data, from networks to applications. The combination of Retelit’s proprietary assets (a comprehensive fiber-optic network in Italy and across the world and a nationwide Data Center network) and the innovation and digital expertise stemming from major M&A’s has created a unique player in Italy which can offer integrated digital solutions. Retelit is wholly-owned by Asterion.