Pirelli Announces Addition Of ADSS Cable To Product Line

5 June 1998
Pirelli Announces Addition Of ADSS Cable To Product Line
    LEXINGTON, S.C., June 5 -- Pirelli Cables and Systems North
America has announced the addition of an All-Dielectric Self-Supporting (ADSS)
fiber optic cable to its line of products for the communications and energy
industries.
    ADSS cable offers its users several unique capabilities, and Pirelli's
ADSS cable is designed specifically with user needs in mind.
    ADSS cable is designed to be installed along existing aerial utility pole
pathways, allowing the user easier access to rights of way than with standard
buried or lashed applications. It is designed and tested to meet draft IEEE
P1222 specifications, the pending industry standard. A full variety of utility
hardware is available with this product.
    ADSS's all-dielectric design allows the cable to be installed in the
Supply region of the utility pole, utilizing previously unused space on the
pole.
    Because ADSS cable is self-supporting, installation is faster and easier
than with previous aerial designs, such as Figure 8. Using standard utility
hardware, the installation becomes more cost efficient and easier than with
other designs.
    Pirelli ADSS cable is designed to meet the distribution applications of
most of its customers. It is available in fiber counts up to 144 fibers, in
single-mode, multi-mode or non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber.
    "Pirelli's ADSS cable meets the quality and functionality requirements
that customers expect from us," Raymond L. Robinson, senior vice president and
general manager of Pirelli Cables and Systems North America's Communications
Division, said. "The added advantage to our customers is that we can offer a
product that is thoroughly tested and proven and get it to the customer with a
responsive lead time, with full technical support from engineering to field
service and a delivery system that approaches 100 percent on-time
performance."
    Pirelli Cables and Systems North America is headquartered in Columbia,
S.C. With facilities in Lexington and Abbeville, S.C., Colusa, Calif., Surrey,
British Columbia, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and Prescott, Ontario, it
provides fiber optic cable and photonics equipment for the communications
industry and energy transmission and distribution cable for the utility and
commercial building industries.
    Pirelli Cables and Systems is a global manufacturer of communications and
power cables and systems. With 15,000 employees, 51 plants, research and
development centers in Italy, the United States, France, Canada, Great Britain
and Brazil, and total sales of more than $3.5 billion, Pirelli ranks among the
world leaders. The company is increasingly focusing its R&D and manufacturing
resources and competencies on leading edge technologies, based on optical
fibers and photonics for communications networks and superconductivity for
power transmission.