About Pirelli Broadband Solutions

Pirelli Broadband Solutions (PBS) is the company within the Pirelli Group specialized in products and platforms for the broadband connected homes and offices.
Pirelli Broadband Solutions designs its products with a vision of making them a platform for service creation through their open architecture, and the catalysts of co-operation between fixed and mobile services and between managed and un-managed multimedia applications.

Along this vision, Pirelli Broadband Solutions' portfolio develops around the following core lines:

• residential access gateways for multiple play applications (voice, data, video, value-added services) based on fixed (xDSL, FTTx) or mobile (3G, 4G) broadband access technologies;
• small business access gateways for all-in-a-box service packages based on fixed (xDSL, FTTx) or mobile (3G, 4G) broadband access technologies;
• hybrid IPTV set-top boxes for the delivery of multimedia content from any digital TV platform (IPTV, DTT, SAT, Internet);
• fixed-mobile convergence products (dual mode phones and femtocells);
• home networking adapters for the distribution of multimedia content in the home with no-new-wires;
• remote management systems and application servers for the remote activation, update and customer support of the user devices and of the value-added services delivered through them;
• embedded middlewares with software development environment (SDK)

Built on standardized protocols to ensure multi-vendor interoperability, Pirelli's solutions are enriched by innovations and customizations that allow Service Providers to differentiate and segment their offerings with optimal time-to-market and price positioning.

As a proof of successful market recognition, Pirelli Broadband Solutions has been continuously expanding its customer base worldwide, comprising both incumbent and competitive Service Providers.

Quick facts

Headquarters: Milano, Italy
Revenues FY2008: €125M
Employees: 160
Sales and Customer Support offices: Italy, Spain, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Brasil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Turkey, South Africa

100% subsidiary of the Pirelli Group, a multinational with 135 years of experience and leadership within the following sectors: Tyres, Real Estate, Environment, and Telecommunications, and consolidated net sales of €4.6B in FY2008. Pirelli & C S.p.A. is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (PECI: MI).