Prysmian Unveils xsNet at FTTH 2012

MILAN -- Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, will showcase its upgraded xsNet – access network - portfolio at this week’s FTTH Council Europe Conference which takes place in Munich on 15th & 16th of February.

Prysmian Group – formed by the combination of Prysmian and Draka – has maintained the former Draka xsNet brand and has rebranded and improved the system by including a selection of best of the best products from both of the former companies.

xsNet addresses the passive access network and provides tailor-made solutions for all parts of the network – Indoor/customer premises, outside plant and POP/exchange applications. The building blocks of xsNet which make this possible include a number of familiar products which have already proven themselves to be highly reliable solutions with established track records. These include SiroccoXS (Blown fibre), VertiCasaXS (MDU cabling system) and the recently launched VerTVXS (optical satellite solution) – all former Prysmian developments. From the Draka side have come the blown cable families including JetNetXS and EaseNetXS, with the whole system portfolio underpinned by a suite of leading in-house fibre technologies led by BendBrightXS, the bend insensitive fibre developed specifically for last mile applications in compliance with G657.A2/B2 requirements.

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