Data center for 5G applications launched in Berlin

Vodafone

dpa | Davina Spohn, 23.03.2018, 14:02

Data center for 5G applications launched in Berlin

On March 21, 2018, Vodafone put its first high-security center for applications of the fast 5G wireless standard into operation. The Berlin 'Supercore Center' will be the first of a total of four planned data centers in Germany.

In future, data from mobile, cable and landline networks will converge in the Berlin data center and be sent to the recipients. It will also be possible to process them there in real time if required. "In our new data center, we are four times faster and 20 times more powerful than before," says Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO of Vodafone Germany. Further centers are to follow in Munich, Frankfurt and Dortmund, some of which are already under construction.

"For the new speeds, we have laid a total of 1500 kilometers of fiber optics," says Ametsreiter. This would allow 22 million GBytes of data to rush through every day, as much data as in four billion books." Special security mechanisms in the 'Supercore Center' are designed to prevent access to data by third parties. Redundant systems ensure reliability, even if the power goes off completely.

The new 5G wireless standard is currently driving the entire industry. It is designed to bundle all conventional networks and expand them virtually. Huge amounts of data can then flow through the network without any noticeable delay, providing space for the Internet of Things when machines and objects of all kinds are connected to the network. Every type of data - whether a streamed movie, a phone call or the status display of an elevator - should pass through 5G according to urgency and need. All major telecommunications providers are currently working to ensure that the first networks are available in 2020.

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