Fastweb, Italy’s largest alternative fixed-line telecommunications provider, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to expand the availability of WOW FI, its wi-fi-based ‘community’ broadband service. Following an initial trial in Monza and Livorno, the WOW FI service has been extended to Milan, with the operator planning to launch the service soon in Rome, Florence, Turin, Bologna and Genoa. The operator aims to roll out the service nationwide by 2016.
Fastweb is leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s IP service routing and Motive authentication, authorization and accounting technologies to offer its residential customers with ultra-broadband access even when they are travelling, by turning customer’s homes into wi-fi hotspots. By sharing wireless home networking resources, the WOW FI service enables Fastweb customers ‘roaming’ away from home to access the Internet without either degrading the quality of broadband access within the homes providing the connectivity, or compromising the security of the homeowners’ networks.
Mario Mella, Chief Technology Officer at Fastweb
We are committed to providing high-quality and secure ultra-broadband connectivity to our customers. Therefore we are pleased to be able to work with Alcatel-Lucent and leverage their expertise to help us deliver on such an important project for Italy.
Roberto Loiola, Senior Vice-President, South and Center Europe at Alcatel-Lucent
Using our IP networking product knowledge and expertise we have created a solution for FastWeb that can easily evolve to offer cloud-based services in the future. Delivering the networks that enable access everywhere and on every device is a priority for us and this innovative project is a perfect example of that work.
