OTEGlobe

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OTEGLOBE

Type	Public
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	October 2000
Headquarters	Athens, Greece
Area served	South Eastern Europe
Key people	Dino Andreou, CEO
Products	National and international telecommunications services, Broadband and internet services, IT and Network Solutions
Owner	OTE
Website	www.oteglobe.gr

OTEGLOBE is an Athens-based network backbone operator offering telecommunication services to carriers, ISPs and business customers in Southern Europe. The organisation is a whole-owned subsidiary of OTE, the main Greek telecommunications provider.

Network[]

OTEGLOBE operates 2 wide area networks that form the south-eastern European Internet backbone: GWEN (Greek Western European Network) and TBN (Trans Balkan Network) as well as an IP MPLS network.

GWEN is a private multi-gigabit network based on DWDM/SDH connecting Greece to major European backbone services via Italy. It is composed of 4 rings (Greek inner ring, undersea ring, Italian ring and West-European ring).

TBN forms a land-based backbone network linking Greece to the west-European backbones via Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic to the main backbone centres in Germany and the United Kingdom. The TBN is used standalone or as a backup service to GWEN.

IP MPLS Network. Based on Multi-Services Platform (MSP), a private, international IP MPLS network, as well as on numerous peering/interconnect agreements with other global carriers, OTEGLOBE offers a variety of transport and connectivity services available internationally at 14 business centers.

OTEGLOBE is a member and landing party of the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable.

Services[]

OTEGLOBE offers a number of wholesale telecommunication services to high-capacity carriers and multi-site organisations:

• Capacity services (via the GWEN and TBN wide area networks)
• Data/IP services
• Voice services