In 2007 Prysmian further enhanced its position in the growing broadband market as well and specifically in that of Fibre to the Home (FTTH). New applications and services are forcing telecoms operators to install fibre closer and closer to the end user in order to increase bandwidth provision. Prysmian has taken a leading role in this key sector of the FTTH business. The Company has introduced a wide range of new cables and connectivity systems required by these new applications. In particular, CasaLight™ optical fibre and the VertiCasa™ MDU cabling system have enabled operators to be reassured about the economic sustainability of a large brownfield "last metre" fibre deployment. As a consequence, several significant contracts in this highly strategic new market sector have already been secured. In the European market, for example, a number of systems have been developed in Scandinavia and France and most recently in Germany where Prysmian was contracted to provide a complete fibre network to Schwerte, a town of 50,000 people in the western region of the country. Here Prysmian is in the process of building a network which will provide direct fibre links providing ultra high speed broadband services to the inhabitants and which will act as a model for neighbouring communities in the region and beyond.