Vertical sectors
Digital technology for logistics and transport: pervasive, always on, Italian
Site-to-site connectivity for distributed logistics operators, Italian private cloud for the systems that run warehouses and transport, managed cybersecurity and data centres in Italy. Network, cloud and security in a single proprietary infrastructure, with one point of contact overseeing both design and operation.
The logistics and transport sector needs a pervasive network that is always available at every site along the chain.
For logistics and transport operators, digital infrastructure is an integral part of the operating process. Warehouses, sorting hubs, terminals and branches run around the clock: a network outage halts sorting, slows the loading bays and undermines goods traceability. The sector’s digital transformation is accelerating: the Contract Logistics Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano reports growing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence in order and warehouse management.
Retelit supports operators in the sector with an integrated, fully Italian infrastructure platform: a proprietary fibre network, site-to-site SD-WAN, radio and 5G backup, data centre interconnection, private cloud and managed cybersecurity.
We design and manage the network end to end, including multi-carrier scenarios, with a single point of contact and centralised control that simplifies operation and continuity.
47.000 km
Of Retelit-owned optical fibre, across Italy
38
Retelit data centres in Italy to run and secure the systems
~79.000
Third-party logistics companies in Italy (Contract Logistics Observatory, Politecnico di Milano)
Needs
The needs of logistics and transport operators.
Network continuity on operating hubs, reach across distributed sites and protection of digital systems: the sector’s three infrastructure priorities, against a backdrop of growing regulatory pressure and rising cyberattacks.
Network continuity across warehouses, hubs and terminals
Warehouse management systems (WMS) and transport management systems (TMS), picking terminals, scanners and automated lines all run around the clock: a network stoppage halts sorting, brings the loading bays to a standstill and interrupts goods traceability. Operating nodes require high-availability connectivity, redundant paths and independent backup links able to absorb peaks. As McKinsey notes, still few companies have infrastructure capable of reacting in real time to supply-chain disruptions: network continuity is the foundation for closing that gap.
Operational continuity
Reach across distributed sites
Logistics runs on a network of nodes: distribution centres, peripheral warehouses, transit points, branches and sites across the country, often in industrial areas not yet reached by fibre. Connecting dozens or hundreds of sites consistently calls for a pervasive network, fast activations at new locations and different access technologies — fibre, broadband, radio and 5G — combined according to available coverage and capacity. Goods traceability, fleet monitoring and data integration across sites all rest on this foundation, an area where the Contract Logistics Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano reports growing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence.
Multi-site network
Systems protection and regulatory compliance
Logistics and transport are among the sectors most exposed to cyberattacks and fall within the highly critical sectors of the NIS2 Directive, transposed in Italy by Legislative Decree 138/2024: a disruption of digital systems can propagate along the entire supply chain. What is required is separation between warehouse automation systems and management systems, continuous monitoring, structured incident handling and documented business-continuity plans. Data protection and access traceability become service requirements, not just security ones.
Security and NIS2 compliance
100% Italian
A single infrastructure entirely on Italian soil.
For those moving goods and data along the supply chain, knowing where information travels and who manages it is an operating condition. Our infrastructure — comprising network, data centres and cloud — operates entirely in Italy, with full access traceability. A single technical and contractual point of responsibility, under which the logistics network can grow without depending on non-EU providers.
Solutions
The Retelit solutions for the Transport & Logistics sector.
Seven infrastructure pillars serving logistics: site-to-site connectivity over fibre and SD-WAN, network continuity with radio and 5G backup, high-performance data centre interconnection, Italian private cloud for management systems, owned data centres across the country, secure data storage and managed cybersecurity. A single Italian operator, with proprietary infrastructure and one point of contact, including in multi-carrier scenarios.
Multi-site connectivity
We connect every logistics site — distribution centres, warehouses, transit points and branches — with dedicated fibre offering guaranteed bandwidth up to 10 Gbps on the main nodes and broadband access at peripheral sites, integrated by a private network. Managed SD-WAN routes traffic over the best link per application and separates operational flows from office flows. Bringing new sites online is fast thanks to zero-touch provisioning of the devices, including over other carriers’ lines: the network is designed and managed by Retelit, with a single point of contact.
Network continuity and backup
For hubs and warehouses that cannot stop, we pair the primary connectivity with an independent backup path: microwave radio on licensed frequencies, fixed wireless access (FWA) and 5G routers, with automatic traffic failover. Wireless coverage reaches 98% of Italian industrial areas, with low latency and availability above 99.9%. If the primary line becomes unavailable, critical traffic keeps flowing and the warehouse systems, scanners and site communications stay up: an alternative to fibre, useful also on isolated or newly opened sites.
Data centre interconnection
Many logistics operators run their core systems across two data centres, so as not to depend on a single site: doing so requires keeping them aligned in real time. We build the dedicated high-performance links between the company’s data centres, from fibre reserved exclusively to wavelength links for the highest capacities. On this basis the warehouse and transport management systems (WMS and TMS) and the traceability platforms stay synchronised and available: if one site goes down, operations continue on the other without losing data. The links rely on Retelit’s owned fibre backbone, which reaches up to 800 Gbps over two diverse paths, with predictable performance independent of the public Internet.
Cloud and Disaster Recovery
With the VCloud private cloud, hosted in Retelit data centres in Italy and ACN-qualified, operators securely run the systems that govern logistics: warehouse management (WMS), transport management (TMS), ERP and traceability platforms. Integrated backup and geographic disaster recovery, with sites in Milan and Rome, protect service continuity with contractually defined recovery times. Direct connection to the leading public clouds is provided over a dedicated low-latency link, an alternative to the Internet: hybrid architectures stay on a single network, with data under Italian jurisdiction.
Data centres and colocation
A network of data centres located in Italy’s main cities, ISO 27001 certified and with sites up to Tier IV level, to host the core logistics systems close to the areas served: housing and colocation with dual power feeds, energy 100% from renewable sources and up to 18 kW per rack, continuous 24/7 monitoring and on-site technical support. The Milan interconnection campus, with more than 170 carriers and cloud providers connected, simplifies traffic exchange, geographic redundancy and disaster-recovery architectures.
Managed cybersecurity
Managed security services to protect automated warehouses, management systems and distributed sites: continuous monitoring with the MDR service (managed detection and response), managed firewalls, endpoint protection, email security and separation between automation and IT systems. We add periodic assessments — vulnerability assessment and penetration testing — and incident handling to support operators in meeting the requirements of the NIS2 Directive, with the oversight of our Security Operations Center on a continuous basis.
An object storage service to retain large volumes of logistics data — transport documents, images, traceability data and backup copies — with predictable costs and access via the S3 standard. Data is hosted in Italy, in data centres up to Tier IV level, and can be made immutable to protect it from accidental deletion and ransomware attacks. It is the foundation for long-term archives, data lakes and analytics on supply-chain data.
Compliance and standards for logistics and transport
We operate within a certified perimeter that is periodically subject to independent audit. Our data centres, operating processes and managed services are aligned with the main regulatory requirements affecting logistics and transport operators, from the European directives on network security to business continuity and data protection.
NIS2
European directive on the security of network and information systems (Legislative Decree 138/2024).
CER Directive
Resilience of critical entities in essential sectors, including transport (Legislative Decree 134/2024).
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security management system.
ISO 22301
Business continuity and crisis management on managed services.
IEC 62443
Security of industrial automation and OT systems in automated warehouses.
GDPR
Protection and traceability of personal data processing.
Case Studies
The transport and logistics operators that chose Retelit.
Real digital-transformation projects with transport and logistics operators that chose Retelit to consolidate multi-site connectivity, data centre interconnection and network continuity across the entire chain.
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