Pirelli's broadband solutions with Marconi

摘要

Pirelli Broadband Solutions (PBS) - a specialist company within the Pirelli Group - recorded sales of Euros 64 million (nearly US 77 million dollars) in the first half of 2005.' This figure is equal to its 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 163 million dollars). 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.