FEATURE NEWS:
Pirelli’s broadband solutions with Marconi
Pirelli Broadband Solutions (PBS) – a specialist company within the Pirelli Group – recorded sales of some Euros 64 million (nearly $77m) in the first half of 2005. This figure is equal to its own full year sales for 2004. No doubt this is a source of huge cheer to all involved at Pirelli, but it's also a wider signal that the portents are good for the optical field of the cable industry.
PBS is a vehicle to bring to market the fruit of the research at Pirelli Labs, the advanced R&D; centre founded in 2001 with an initial investment of Euros 135 million (US$163m). The company focuses on photonics and the development of new optical components based on nanotechnologies.
The application of nanostructures to optical components allows the full exploitation of all the wavelengths available in fibre optic cables, maximizing the quantity of data transmitted on a single fibre.
Pirelli recently signed a cooperation agreement with Marconi to deliver next-generation network transmission solutions to telecommunications operators worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement Marconi will provide Pirelli’s City8 Multiservice Platform to its customer base. This carrier-class platform addresses the most critical issues of the metro and access areas. Pirelli’s City8 platform is managed by Marconi’s Network Management System technology (ServiceOn), which allows the remote management of an entire telecommunications network, thus increasing efficiency and reducing operating costs.
Today, high-bandwidth services such as IPTV and video are flooding the metro and access areas. By integrating Pirelli’s platform into the Marconi solution, telecom operators will be able to eliminate the bottlenecks in their metro and access areas and better manage the flow of broadband traffic. In addition, Pirelli’s CWDM technology allows operators to multiply bandwidth in the metro area, thus reducing operating costs.
Through nanotechnology it is possible to reduce the size of integrated optical solutions and to provide more powerful components in greater volume at a fraction of the cost. PBS's Dynamically Tuneable Laser, a continuous wave external cavity laser for advanced DWDM optical systems, optimizes investments, accelerates time to revenue and increases profitability in metro and access network.
The DTL C13 tunes over the entire C-band on the ITU-T 50 GHz channel grid and can serve as a backup for WDM transponders, which account for a majority of the costs in an optical network. The C13 also delivers flexibility, as telecom operators can easily switch to alternative channels and can reconfigure added channels to deliver new services in less time.
Wavelength agility and fast traffic provisioning is driving the demand for next-generation optical networks. Radio over Fibre (RoF) is a technology that enables the transmission of radio signals directly over optical fibre, addressing increasing capacity demands and limited network coverage.
This solution exploits the greater bandwidth and inherent transmission performance of optical fibre, allowing mobile operators to optimize base station deployments. Still in its early stages of deployment, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology will greatly benefit from RoF.
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Pirelli Broadband Solutions |
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Italy |
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+39 028 535 4451 |
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www.pirelli.com |