Product category: Cables and Wires
News Release from: Prysmian Cables and Systems | Subject: FreeLight EasySplice
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 February 2003

Reduced splice losses boost fibre reach

Pirelli has significantly enhanced the performance of its long-distance optical fibre to help operators cut costs by further reducing signal attenuation from splice loss

Engineers at Pirelli's optical fibre R and D unit in Milan have significantly enhanced the performance of its long-distance optical fibre to help operators cut costs by further reducing signal attenuation from splice loss. FreeLight EasySplice has been specially designed to deliver consistently good splice performance, ensuring optimum signal integrity and reducing the need for additional equipment such as amplifiers and repeaters to compensate for signal degradation.

In long-haul networks spanning thousands of kilometres, even a fractional loss in integrity can substantially increase the financial burden on operators by necessitating the purchase, installation and maintenance of additional costly equipment.

With the splice operation representing a major contributing factor in attenuation in all long-distance networks, reducing average splice loss has the power to substantially improve the quality of network throughput while cutting operational overheads.

Pirelli's original FreeLight non zero dispersion G.655 terrestrial fibre was already in line with best-in-class performance.

Now, with the launch of FreeLight EasySplice, the company has seized the market lead by producing a fibre that further reduces splice loss by a factor of at least 20% - a new standard in long-distance fibre performance.

By responding more resiliently to splicing - an integral part of all geographically large networks - FreeLight EasySplice will play an important role in helping carriers minimise costs and optimise revenues from their long-haul networks.

A major breakthrough in optical fibre technology, the principles that allow FreeLight EasySplice to deliver world-beating performance will eventually be extended to other Pirelli fibre products.

Available immediately, all Pirelli FreeLight fibre now incorporates EasySplice technology, and will continue to be marketed simply under the well recognised brand name FreeLight.

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