Pirelli completes farice system
Milan , 4 December 2003 - The Farice Submarine Cable System has been successfully completed by Pirelli on 29 November 2003 and handed over to FARICE Hf, a Joint Venture between Iceland Telecom and Faroese Telecom that will use the system as the main infrastructure for their international traffic needs for internet, voice and data transmission.
The project, a full turn-key repeatered system spanning over 1400km connecting Iceland , Faroe Islands , and Scotland has been completed in one year time and is initially equipped to transmit a capacity of 20 Gb/s and upgradable up to 720 Gb/s.
The state of the art wet plant supplied, including submarine cable, submersible repeaters and branching unit, has been entirely designed and manufactured by Pirelli in Italy .
The utilization of the new-built cableship, Pertinacia, operated by Elettra (a Company of the Telecom Italia Group) allowed Pirelli to successfully meet the severe standards requirements for the marine installation of the North Atlantic area.
This successful completion of Farice system, in addition to the ongoing projects in Mediterranean , Middle East and South East Asia , is an additional confirmation of Pirelli capabilities to supply turn-key submarine systems both with repeaterless and repeatered technology, in the worldwide market.