Pirelli presents new tlc systems at ECOC
- PIRELLI LAUNCHES NEXT GENERATION TELECOM EQUIPMENT AT ECOC 2003 (RIMINI, 22-24 SEPTEMBER)
- NEW SYSTEMS, MODULES AND COMPONENTS, BASED ON PIRELLI LABS ADVANCED RESEARCH, WILL ALLOW CUSTOMERS TO BOOST PERFORMANCE WHILE SAVING COSTS
Rimini (Italy), 22nd September 2003 Pirelli launches its next generation telecom equipment at the ECOC European Conference on Optical Communication - taking place in Rimini, Italy from September 22nd to 24th. Pirelli is showing its new products systems, modules and components based on the advanced research of Pirelli Labs in its own stand 615.
Pirelli pioneered photonics and drove the evolution of Optical Communications in early 90s, with the first EDFA developed and the first DWDM systems installed in operators' live networks. Pirelli is now on the road again, and is ready to play a leading role in the future of Telecommunications.
With innovative ideas and state of the art technology, Pirelli develops products supporting its customers to pursue the key economic targets of optimizing investment, speeding up time to revenue and increasing profitability.
We are very proud to introduce our new solutions just 18 months after Pirelli Labs were established stated Giorgio Grasso, Chief Executive Officer of Pirelli Labs. Our trials have given us very positive feedback and the interest shown by prospective customers testifies that we are moving in the right direction: flexibility, speed and low costs for next generation optical networks, added Mauro Sacchetto, CEO of Pirelli Telecom Systems.
Pirelli tunable optical components (laser, OADM) boast superior performance while the adoption of Nanotechnologies allows unprecedented compactness. These are fundamental bricks in the building of new networks, whose characteristics (flexibility, easy reconfigurability, fast provisioning) support operators in reducing OPEX.
Pirelli Metro systems, while slashing down operator's capital expenditure (thanks to CWDM adoption and innovative architecture), offers a carrier class equipment, with networking features exploitable in Metro Access as well as in Metro Core scenarios. Pirelli portfolio of access modules and systems opens the way for new broadband services, the engine for increasing the operators' profitability.
In particular, Pirelli introduces new Pirelli Dynamically Tunable Laser, a CW external cavity laser for advanced optical network systems. It provides high output optical power
and wavelength tunability over a wide band range with very high spectral purity and frequency stability. These characteristics make Pirelli DTL ideally suitable for applications that spread from Metro to Ultra Long Haul transmission systems at 2.5 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and beyond. Pirelli DTL is designed to provide fast switching on the ITU-T 50 GHz channel grid. No wavelength locker is needed to achieve frequency stability compatible with 25 GHz DWDM channel spacing.
Among its new modules, Pirelli presents Radio Over Fiber (ROF) technology based modules, that enable the transmission of radio signals directly over optical fiber. The application of this technology to wireless networks allows the remotization of the radio frequency (RF) processing part, or Antenna Units (AU), from the related base band (BB) processing part, or Base Station (BS), with the following main advantages for the Mobile Operator during the deployment of a new network. The Pirelli ROF product line is intended to enable the remotization through optical fiber of the Antenna Unit from the related Base Station of an UMTS (3G) wireless communication system. It is based on a self-contained electro-optic module to be integrated inside the UMTS equipment of the system vendor in order to provide the ROF remotization function.
Finally, Pirelli is presenting its new P-MAS system, targeted to cope with the issues of metropolitan scenarios, where synchronous traffic (like the voice telephony) and
asynchronous (or packet, as IP) traffic are present and mixed. P-MAS provides the Layer 1 CWDM multiplexing and transport functionality (transponder) over an optical fibre support to digital client signal of different protocol and bit rate. The typical applications is the fibre capacity increase in the Metro area with transport of client protocols like SDH STM-4/STM-16 and/or Sonet OC-12/OC-48 (up to 2.7 Gb/s), Gigabit Ethernet, ESCON, Fiber Channel, etc. Metro (access and core) rings and ring or point-to-point customer premises (CPE) are the main applications for the P-MAS products. Traditional metro access and enterprise networks (based on TDM technology) suffer from some serious technical limitations: TDM networks in fact rely on very costly network timing provisions and are extremely bandwidth-inefficient and restrictive in supporting a diverse array of end-user services.
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Pirelli is a global producer of Tyres, Energy and Telecommunication Cables and Systems. With more than 34,000 employees, 77 production sites, and total sales of 6.311 billion Euros at 31st December 2002, Pirelli is one of the worlds leading companies. Active also in the Real Estate sector through the subsidiary Pirelli & C. Real Estate, Pirelli focuses its R& D, production resources and competencies on leading-edge technologies, as demonstrated by the advanced Pirelli Labs in the photonics and new materials fields and by MIRS Modular Integrated Robotized System for tyres production. In 2001 Pirelli also acquired a stake in Telecom Italia, one of the European largest telecommunication groups, through the vehicle Olimpia, in which it has a 50.4% shareholding.