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EuroWire – May 2011 24
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Prysmian Cables & Systems has confirmed its position
among the top global players in the telecommunications
optical fibre and cables sector, with overall production of
around 10 million km of optical fibre in 2010 – equal to 5
per cent of the total worldwide industry production, and
with a significant growth on 2009.
As a manufacturer of optical fibre, Prysmian has two active
plants for its production, in Italy and Brazil. The group’s
technological and manufacturing centre of excellence is
FOS Fibre Ottiche Sud, based in Battipaglia (near Naples) in
Italy, one of the most advanced facilities in this sector.
In FOS, which began its activity in 1981, Prysmian
concentrates most of its research and production activities
in the field of optical fibre.
These fibres are used in the manufacture of cables at ten
Prysmian plants worldwide, supporting the development
of the main telecom operators’ broadband projects, from
BT, Telefonica and Telecom Italia in Europe, to Verizon in
America, to Asia and Oceania, where Prysmian partners
with Bharti Airtel in India, Telstra in Australia and China
Mobile.
In particular, Prysmian has been recently chosen by the
Australian Government and by the telecom operator
Telstra for the development of the new national telecom
broadband network.
Leveraging on its market and technological leadership,
Prysmian is ready to play a leading role in future broadband
projects in Italy.
After having deployed the first access optical cable network
in Milan, together with Metroweb/Fastweb, followed closely
by Rome, Florence and Bologna, Prysmian has been chosen
as a partner for the new experimental national broadband
projects launched by the country’s main operators.
In another important project, Prysmian worked with
Fastweb, Vodafone and Wind to install its FTTH optical
cables to more than 7,400 users at Fleming Hill in Rome in
what was the first mass testing of fibre optic deployment in
Italy.
These have seen optical fibres installed into the existing
duct infrastructure – demonstrating how high capacity
broadband can be delivered in an economical and smart
way.
Attention is now focused on the “Fibre for Italy” project
which has been signed by Telecom Italia, Vodafone,
Fastweb, Wind, H3G, Tiscali and BT in order to implement
a new fibre optic network that will deliver 100 megabits/s
connections.
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