Most powerful Submarine Link
Milan, February 19 2001 - Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems will install the first repeaterless 10 Gigabit per second submarine telecommunication link ever built in the Mediterranean: ALPAL-2, a 320km high- capacity connection between Algiers and Palma de Mallorca, that will be realized together with Algeria Telecom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and France Telecom.
"We are proud to offer the strongest and most efficient unrepeatered DWDM Submarine system available in the Mediterranean region", said Carlo Mazzantini, CEO of Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems worldwide.
A "repeaterless" telecom system, applicable in the presence of short-medium lengths such as in this case, is based on a direct fiber optic cable connection without submarine amplifiers, usually needed on longer distances for, precisely, amplifying and repeating the signal. The Algiers-Palma system is based on 10 Gb/s DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) technology and has a maximum capacity of the 160 Gigabit per second. ALPAL-2 will provide a direct, ultra-fast and fully reliable connection between Algeria and Spain, and from there to the existing European telecom networks.
Every year, the industry's demand models show a doubling of capacity requirements. This includes today's corporate enterprise networks, the Internet, on-line service networks, digital pay TV and cellular network backbones. Pirelli's state of the art solutions help to end capacity constraints for all of today's voice, data, image and video networks. For the new ALPAL-2 connection, Pirelli will deliver a "future-proof" technology: an "open architecture" system specifically designed to integrate DWDM technology with existing and future telecom systems (i.e. SDH based products).
Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems is a world leader in turn-key submarine telecommunication systems for repeaterless and repeatered systems, for which it has developed its own technology capabilities and can count on dedicated manufacturing units for all the submarine systems components.
For further information:
Ivan Domp
Pirelli Press Office
Tel. +39 02 85354270
e-mail: ivan.dompe@pirelli.com