OTE Group said it completed the Athonite Digital Ark project on behalf of the Holy Community of Mount Athos. The four-year project aims to preserve and promote the cultural wealth of the Athonite State through the digitisation and documentation of its historical archive and works of art, as well as their distribution to the world via the internet.
More than 2 million digital illustrations of documents, books and manuscripts and 27,000 images of relics, as well as 3D monument depictions, virtual tours and educational applications, are now available on the mountathos portal, which allows the public and scientists to discover the mountain's cultural wealth.
As part of the project, OTE also upgraded the telecommunications infrastructure of Mount Athos, installing fixed and mobile networks, Cosmote Fiber and Cosmote 4G. It also implemented a data centre in Karyes and created a closed remote access VPN network for the transfer of large volumes of digitised material and its remote documentation by scientists. In addition, it created the mountain's web portal in five languages, Greek, English, Bulgarian, Russian, and Serbian.
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