Goal
PhotonLab is a joint initiative by Istituto Superiore Mario Boella and Politecnico di Torino (Italy); it is a large experimental facility focused on the study of the physical layer of optical communications networks. Thanks to a fruitful cooperation with an Italian alternative telecom operator, the PhotonLab has access to a dark fiber infrastructure of a total of 240Km of SMF fiber going across the city of Turin and is organized in 8 rings of different lengths, from 10Km to 40Km, whose ends are in the laboratory. Such infrastructure could be used for testing optical fronthaul and backhaul solutions for 5G networks.