Prismian Launches New ‘Fibre to the home’ (FTTH) Product range at ITU Hong Kong

Prismian Launches New ‘Fibre to the home’ (FTTH) Product range at ITU Hong Kong

More innovative telecom solutions from Prysmian targeted at the growing Asia Pacific broadband market.

Milan, November 28, 2006 – Prysmian Cables & Systems – a worldwide leader in the telecom and energy cables business – will next week be launching several new products from their FTTH range at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Exhibition and Conference in Hong Kong – Dec 4th to 8th.

The event is the largest telecoms show this year in Asia Pacific, a region of tremendous growth in the telecoms market driven largely by the rapid uptake of high speed broadband services and with production sites in China, Indonesia and Australia producing both optical and copper cable technologies Prysmian is at the heart of this dynamic marketplace.

Prysmian will be presenting a full range of passive telecom products with the emphasis firmly on the ‘last mile’ sector of the market. A fully interactive stand will be used to demonstrate a variety of alternative solutions aimed at bringing fibre closer to the end user and will include the latest blowing techniques – for cable and fibre – residential micro trenching of cable, new connectivity hardware and the latest member of Prysmian’s portfolio – QUICKDRAW®. This innovative, patented, pre-connectorized system, fully compatible with most standard connectors has been designed to be installed in the smallest, often crowded ducts typically found in the final meters leading up to, and even inside, the customers’ premises.

“Hong Kong is an ideal location to present these new FTTH products” commented Giovanni Battista Scotti, director of Prysmian’s global telecom cable and fibre optic business “It is typical of many major locations in the region combining a high population density with a growing demand for better and faster communication services and at Prysmian we are convinced that the solution lies with taking fibre closer to the final user and ultimately to the home.”

Visit Prysmian in Hall 10 Stand 10041. Alternatively go to http://www.prysmian.com/en_42/cables_systems/telecom/telecom_index.jhtml?s1=25800007&s2=25800011 and visit the Hong Kong virtual stand. Conference details can be found at www.itu.int/WORLD2006

Prysmian Cables & Systems
Prysmian Cables and Systems, the name acquired by Pirelli Cables after it came under the control of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in 2005, is the world leader in energy and telecommunications cables and systems industry, being present in 41 countries in the 5 continents, with 54 production plants distributed in 21 countries, with more than 12,000 employees and a 2005 turn-over of 3.75 billion Euros. In the telecoms sector, Prysmian supplies the industry with a comprehensive portfolio of state-of-the-art products including: Optical Fibre, Optical Cable, Sirocco Blown Fibre System, Copper Cable, Premises/Data Cable and Connectivity Hardware