Pirelli Wins FTTH Gateway DealPirelli Wins FTTH Gateway Deal

First phase of the project kicks off in Collina Fleming, Rome, with installation of new Pirelli access gateways for Fastweb’s customers

July 22, 2010

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MILAN -- Pirelli Broadband Solutions, a leading supplier of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)for the connected home and office, is technology partner to telecommunications operator Fastweb for theultra-highspeed Fiber to the Home (FTTH) deployment at the Collina Fleming residential district in Rome.The deployment is part of the new nationwide Next Generation Access Network (NGAN) project promotedby italian telecoms operators Fastweb, Vodafone andWind.Pirelli Broadband Solutions will supply Fastweb with its new generation FTTH access gateways, designed toexploit the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity by supporting high performance WiFi, high quality VoIPtelephony, and high throughput connectivity for end user’s multimedia devices.

The deployment in Collina Fleming, Rome is the first phase of the project initiative named “Fiber for Italy”promoted by Fastweb, Vodafone and Wind to provide ultra-broadband connectivity with speeds up to 100Megabit per second for residential users and up to 1 Gigabit per second for enterprise customers thanks toa Point-to-Point network architecture that dedicates an optical fiber to connect each customer to theCentral Office. The new network will not only support Internet connectivity at very high speed, but will alsoenable applications such as tele-medicine, e-government, tele-work, tele-conference and high definitionvideo transmission.

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