Vatican Announces Upgrade of Network Infrastructure
It looks like the Vatican is going optical! Here are the details, from CathNews Asia:
The Vatican City State has announced a major upgrade to its communications infrastructure including fibre optics links to other Vatican sites including the pontifical villa at Castelgandolfo.
The Governorate of the Vatican City State and Telecom Italia announced the signing of a contract for the installation of the first nucleus of the “Integrated Communication Infrastructure for Vatican City State”, VIS reports.
This consists in a broadband IP network capable of voice, data and video transmission within the territory of the Holy See and Vatican City State, a communique says.
The plan includes, among other things, fibre optic cable links between the ten main extraterritorial sites including the Pontifical Villas at Castelgandolfo and the radio stations in Santa Maria de Galeria.
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Ah... When I worked for the Vatican's Jubilee Internet Office, we had T-1 lines (and a staff of Telecom Italia geeks). But it still wasn't unusual to come in and see a hand-written note "L'Internet non funzione oggi" (The Internet is working today) or even "Non c'e' Internet"
There is no Internet)!
That's Italy for you! It's nice to know they were at least on T1's back in the late 90's/early 00's. I know of a few large businesses still stuck on one or two T1's, and it kind of kills Internet use when 50-100 users are online at once!
Advancing the faith.
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