Laurent Gasca
PRODUCT & STANDARDIZATION MANAGER, PRYSMIAN GROUP TELECOM SOLUTIONS
Prysmian Group was one of two Gold Sponsors of the 2017 FTTH Council MENA Conference, held at the Regency Tunis Hotel in Tunis on November 21-23, under the patronage of His Excellency Dr Mohamed Anouar Maarouf, Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy. Keynote speakers included Habib Dababi, Secretary of State for the Digital Economy. The event featured high-level discussions on a variety of topics, including the latest strategies for FTTH deployment, new trends FTTH financing and future-proof fibre solutions.
“The FTTH council MENA conference is a lively conference that offers the opportunity to conduct direct and thorough discussions,” Laurent Gasca, Product and Standardization Manager Telecom Solutions. “Prysmian is present in many markets in Tunisia: datacom, telecom and energy. Even ‘energy + telecom’, considering the deployment of optical fibre along power lines, notably thanks to the OPGW technology. Prysmian’s stand featured the Group’s latest products for the telecom business, with specific focus on the MENA market. We focused on the Prysmian Telecom Solution connectivity product line as some of these products are manufactured in our Menzel Bouzelfa factory, one hour south of Tunis.
At one Conference session, Laurent Gasca held a speech entitled ‘What can we learn from the deployment of FTTH networks in the ‘old’ Europe?’. “In the last miles, these industrial deployments are supported by ‘new’ technologies such as bend insensitive fibre, micromodule cables or preconnectorized solutions. There are some analogies between cities in Europe and in the MENA region. In both regions, most of the cities are ancient, with a long building history. I think we can really leverage our 10 years of European experience in FTTH deployment as there are many similarities between the two regions. Small to medium sized businesses could be a very important driver in the Tunisian market. They need high speed, reliable internet connections. We are facing similar requests in many low-density population European regions where small and medium enterprise are requiring fibre connections, which are vital for them.”
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Prysmian Group was one of two Gold Sponsors of the 2017 FTTH Council MENA Conference, held at the Regency Tunis Hotel in Tunis on November 21-23, under the patronage of His Excellency Dr Mohamed Anouar Maarouf, Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy. Keynote speakers included Habib Dababi, Secretary of State for the Digital Economy. The event featured high-level discussions on a variety of topics, including the latest strategies for FTTH deployment, new trends FTTH financing and future-proof fibre solutions.
“The FTTH council MENA conference is a lively conference that offers the opportunity to conduct direct and thorough discussions,” Laurent Gasca, Product and Standardization Manager Telecom Solutions. “Prysmian is present in many markets in Tunisia: datacom, telecom and energy. Even ‘energy + telecom’, considering the deployment of optical fibre along power lines, notably thanks to the OPGW technology. Prysmian’s stand featured the Group’s latest products for the telecom business, with specific focus on the MENA market. We focused on the Prysmian Telecom Solution connectivity product line as some of these products are manufactured in our Menzel Bouzelfa factory, one hour south of Tunis.
At one Conference session, Laurent Gasca held a speech entitled ‘What can we learn from the deployment of FTTH networks in the ‘old’ Europe?’. “In the last miles, these industrial deployments are supported by ‘new’ technologies such as bend insensitive fibre, micromodule cables or preconnectorized solutions. There are some analogies between cities in Europe and in the MENA region. In both regions, most of the cities are ancient, with a long building history. I think we can really leverage our 10 years of European experience in FTTH deployment as there are many similarities between the two regions. Small to medium sized businesses could be a very important driver in the Tunisian market. They need high speed, reliable internet connections. We are facing similar requests in many low-density population European regions where small and medium enterprise are requiring fibre connections, which are vital for them.”