Product category: Cables and Wires
News Release from: Prysmian Cables and Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 March 2007
Cables to enable fibre to the home
Optical fibre products for Fibre to the home on display at CeBIT in Hannover
Prysmian Telecom Cables and Systems will be demonstrating its latest optical fibre products with a strong focus on fibre to the home (FTTH) at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover, Germany from 15th to 21st March. Prysmian will be located in Hall 14 Stand F18. Prysmian has developed a range of products which together provide a full optical passive system covering a wide variety of today's network configurations.
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Prysmian Cables and Systems will be playing a major role at this week's Annual Conference of the FTTH Council Europe in Barcelona (7th and 8th February 2007)
Prysmian will be showing all of these technologies at CeBIT with live demonstrations of the Sirocco Blown Fibre system together with the Zephyr range of mini blown cables, Oasys connectivity and QuickDr@w preconnectorised customer lead-in cable - all of which are fully compatible with Prysmian's new bend-insensitive fibre - CasaLight.
Director of Prysmian's global telecom cables and optical fibres business, Giovanni B Scotti comments: 'Fibre to the home is now clearly a well established technology in many regions, particularly the Far East and the USA'.
'Europe has lagged some way behind until now but the momentum is clearly growing and we believe that 2007 will be a significant year for FTTH in this part of the world'.
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Prysmian set to star at symposium
Prysmian Cables and Systems will again play a major role at the International Wire and Cable Symposium in Providence, Rhode Island, USA from 12th to 15th November 2006
Broadband continues to be a major theme in the telecoms world and take-up rates of high-bandwidth services in Europe and elsewhere continue to rise as ever increasing levels of real content become available to the end user.
With global broadband connections currently being added at a rate of more than 6m per month (source: KMI) there is a clear need to strengthen the physical infrastructure which supports the vast amount of data traffic flowing in telecoms networks, particularly the 'last mile' link to the consumer.
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