The NGN2 Exhibition Area
Technology to deliver ultra-broadband is here.
The most important world operators are bringing this technology to the field with huge investments over the coming years. Telecom Italia, among them. In the next few years copper cables in the access network, connecting the central office to our homes and enterprises, will be progressively substituted. An optical fibre, a wire made of glass within which light beams flow, will bring us sounds, images and many other types of content.
Have you ever wondered what a telecommunication network is made of?
What are the differences between a network based on copper and one based on fibre?
How, more importantly, the Next Generation Network will change our way of living, communicating, working?
You’ll discover it at the Future Centre.
Here an international group of researchers works to explore new business opportunities, made possible by next generation networks.
Here, you can visit the exhibition area Next Generation Network, located between the two cloisters, and travel through today’s network and our future network, within the communication world, from real communication to communication made possible by telecommunications.
The Exhibition area answers two basic questions:
- what the copper network and the fibre network are made of and how they work
- how human communication is performed, from presence communication to telecommunication, and to telepresence.
The Future Centre offers you a true voyage in the network to discover the structure, the equipment, the technologies used, something that is usually hidden to our perception. It is a voyage that begins in the central office to move underground and then surface to enter into our home.
There is also the opportunity for a virtual voyage, an engaging tale on human communications
Human communications involves a rich exchange of visual, aural, tactile and smell signals. Networks can only convey as many signals as technology allows. Tomorrow, thanks to advances in terminals and to the increased capacity offered by optical fibre networks, telecommunications will be able to mirror much more closely our natural human communication.
Telepresence is just around the corner
In this voyage we have a fantastic travel partner. Giovanni Soldini, a seven seas sailor, who has shared his adventures with Telecom Italia for many years and uses Telecom Italia technologies to remain in touch from the middle of nowhere