A neutral wholesale fibre operator
The next 100 kilometres of corridor decided on the traffic already on the network.
Telecom · Central Europe
The operator owns every metre of the corridor, so every extension is its own capital. Now it decides the next route against the demand it can see on the network, not against a map drawn a year ago.
Capital allocation as an operations problem
The operator owns and runs a long-haul optical corridor across central Europe to an eastern border: hundreds of kilometres, hundreds of nodes, a repeater station every 50 to 100 kilometres, lit at a fraction of what it is built to carry. Its customers are operators, hyperscalers and data centres. Its next decisions are where to extend, toward the neighbouring capitals, and when to light more capacity on the route it has.
Those decisions were made from a plan drawn once: expected demand, a build cost, a date. Meanwhile the network itself knew more every day, which wavelengths were filling, which customers were asking for the same city, which repeater site had room, and none of it reached the plan.
Simulating the build plan
On Forge, the operator reads the corridor as one model: lit and dark capacity per segment, customer demand as it is requested, and the cost and crew time of each extension. Planners compare the candidate routes and capacity upgrades side by side and commit capital to the one the traffic supports.
What changed for the build programme:
From CapEx to the whole corridor
The build programme proved the model. Network operations, the round-the-clock NOC and customer demand now read from the same picture, and every segment lit makes the next decision sharper.