Milan – July 2, 2025 – RETN, the leading independent global network services provider, announces the launch of a new fiber optic route between Milan and Padua, as part of its national expansion strategy and to deliver increasingly high-performance low-latency connectivity.
The new route, spanning 360 km and adding to RETN’s 140,000 km global network, takes a highly optimised path and introduces a key improvement: the segment from Milan to Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) is the shortest and most efficient connection available on the market, bringing significant benefits, particularly for latency-sensitive sectors like finance.
By leveraging Points of Presence at Milan’s Caldera Campus and the Padua VSIX, and transiting through the Aruba Data Center in Ponte San Pietro, the route ensures enhanced performance and network efficiency along this strategic axis between Milan and Padua. As a carrier neutral provider, Aruba supports the route, by providing a strategic location for RETN’s network deployment.
Designed to serve organisations that consider connectivity a strategic asset, the new route guarantees ultra-fast response times and high stability. Furthermore, RETN aims to provide companies with greater bandwidth capacity to meet their hyperscaling needs and support increasingly complex digital business models.
“This new route reaffirms our ongoing commitment to the Italian market and represents a concrete milestone toward interconnecting with RETN’s Eastern European network, delivering increasingly widespread and integrated connectivity on a Eurasian scale,” said Milko Ilari, Head of Southern Europe at RETN. “Milan and Padua are two strategic hubs for national data traffic: connecting them through an optimised infrastructure offers Italian businesses a tangible advantage in terms of performance, scalability, and global market access.”
New Milan to Padua route
About RETN
RETN is one of the fastest growing independent Eurasian network services providers, awarded the title of Innovation Disruptor of the Year, at the prestigious Global Connectivity Awards 2024, and the Digital Infrastructure Action Award, by The Tech Capital in 2025.
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 Central Asia 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.
For more information on RETN and its services, please visit the company's website at www.retn.net
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