Year: 2026

#11: Changes in the NOC and in our tools

As our network grew, off-the-shelf solutions eventually became insufficient. At the same time, it became increasingly important to spread the growing workload across more people.Step by step, we either expanded existing tools in targeted ways or developed our own solutions from scratch, tailored precisely to our needs and providing a noticeable reduction in the daily […]

20 Years Core-Backbone

#10: The first 100G and strategic decisions

Anyone who sees 100G as the standard today can easily forget what that step meant back then. It was a true technological leap, both in terms of hardware and financially. Suddenly, scaling was no longer thought of in small increments; instead, capacity could be planned on an entirely new level. Not every decision was easy. […]

20 Years Core-Backbone

Welcome to the team, Svenja!

Welcome on board, Svenja! We’re thrilled to have you on the Core-Backbone Team as our IT-Security & Project Manager.With your experience in quality management and your combination of IT-Security expertise and project management skills, you’ll help drive our security projects forward in a structured way – from planning to implementation. We wish you a great […]

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#9: A major leap forward

Another important technological milestone was the leasing of our own dark fiber, but above all the operation of our own DWDM systems on the routes. Only then did true scalability, maximum control, and independent network expansion become possible. Ulrich, Head of Network and IT Operations, looks back on the year 2015: β€œπ˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘧π˜ͺ𝘳𝘴𝘡 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘡𝘦 𝘸𝘒𝘴 […]

20 Years Core-Backbone

More power on the DWDM Frankfurt – Amsterdam route

New Nokia hardware has arrived, been successfully tested, and has already been put into action by our network team The upgrade on the FRA-AMS route is now live, built on the Nokia GX Series. Using CHM7 line cards that support 800G wavelengths and deliver up to 1.2 Tbit/s per carrier, the upgrade enables a total […]

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