Cables and cabling solutions for residential buildings: safety, comfort and environmental-friendliness

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1 Cables and cabling solutions for residential buildings: safety, comfort and environmental-friendliness

2 Turning a domicile into a super home While offering you a wide range of for residences of all kinds (including energyefficient and smart homes), Nexans is laying the groundwork for the future by developing solutions for the new digital home environment. Not only will homes provide new levels of information, communication and entertainment, they will also respond directly to people s needs, such as medical surveillance, food provisioning, home security, and assistance for the elderly or handicapped. Both traditional and the new digital/automated home environments depend on cost-effective cabling and networking solutions which offer: In addition to a wide range of standard residential, Nexans provides a full choice of specialized and network solutions to meet the growing demands of the information-rich modern home. safe and flexible energy distribution for numerous applications fire-safety to protect both people and the home, itself environmentally-friendly solutions, such as low Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) easy installation, and even do-it-yourself possibilities special for solar panels, radiant floor heating, anti-intrusion, etc. high-speed data capability, with multimedia home networking for Voice-Data- Image (VDI) integration of home command and control devices

3 calls for superior residential cabling SAFETY COMFORT ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLINESS Home is where the heart is. That is why as a builder, architect, installer or supplier you would like to assure your customer of the highest levels of safety. Nexans has been a pioneer in developing lowsmoke, fire-safety which neither propagate fire, nor spread dangerous smoke or gases. Nexans have become a benchmark for operating in tough conditions (humidity, extreme temperatures, rodents, ultraviolet light, etc.). Because the variety of equipment in the average home generates as much interference as a small factory, Nexans offers built-in electromagnetic immunity with its shielded. Finally, Nexans home networking solutions guarantee the continuous functioning of all vital domestic systems. Home is where people enjoy life. Nexans provide everything from convenient lighting to comfortable radiant floor heating. Increasingly, information is becoming an aspect of comfort, with broadband providing new sources of entertainment, communications, and services, like distance-learning and Video-On-Demand (VOD). Digital terrestrial television can deliver hundreds of channels via a twisted copper pair, and the new Internet Protocol IPv6 makes it possible to link dozens of conveniences in a domestic network. Comfort is important for installers, too. By pre-wiring in conduits, Nexans makes it possible for you to cable a home more quickly, saving money and warehouse space. Home is our personal environment. Nexans contribution to the environment begins with its choice of materials. Not only do we adhere to the European RoHS* directive for electrical materials, we also recycle everything from copper to plastics. We support clean energy programs, and have developed dedicated for renewable energy (solar panels, windmills). Environmental-friendliness begins with choosing the right cable for the right application. Virtually all residential come in low-smoke, fire-safety versions, making it possible to protect buildings from corrosive gases, which are not only costly to clean after a fire, but can also generate pollution. *Directive 2002/95/EC: Restriction of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment

4 Proven cabling solutions ENERGY COMMUNICATION Low-voltage energy for lighting, heating, air conditioning and control panels A full range of standard up to 1 kv. Their slippery sheathing and strippability make them easy to install. Elevator Flat, non-welded energy and control in PVC or halogen-free versions. Nexans supplies Thyssen- Krupp, and leading control panel manufacturers. Direct heating Cablemat and ultra-fine Millimat (for renovation) provide safe, comfortable, cost-effective, allergy-free heating in the floor. Developed in Norway, electric floor heating provides uniform coverage, with no cool spots. Prewired conduits These 10 mm 2 20 mm 2 conduits can accommodate energy, or telephone, coaxial and LAN. Very popular in France, this solution reduces two operations to one, saving time, money and space in the installer s warehouse. Solar panel Singlecore PVC or rubber of 0.6 to 1 kv for connection from the panel to the inverter or battery. These flexible, safe HFFR have excellent UV resistance, and long life. VDI (Voice-Data-Image) residential Four grades of copper-based solutions from 100 Megabits on 1 pair or 2 pairs to a full 4-pair solution including connectivity which allows Gigabit speeds and cable sharing. Nexans star-structure solution can deliver all multimedia signals to every room. CATV Copper-core coaxial to deliver a crystal clear signal. Exists in two versions: for normal and parabolic antennas. Active network systems and accessories Optical to Electrical (O/E) media converters deliver 100 Megabits/s to (for example) a 6-outlet Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) switch combining optical and copper ports. Use standard RJ-45 connectivity, with an Ethernet version for digital IP handsets. Plastic optical fiber Rugged and easy-to-connect POF offers low attenuation, multiple-wavelengths (650, 850 and 1,300 nm) and high bit rates (up to 10 Gigabits/s). By 2007, over 10 million houses will have been cabled with POF in Korea, alone. Teleport A two-pair telephonic cable that makes it possible to read an electricity counter from a distance. Armored versions exist for detached homes or rural conditions.

5 Prewired conduits Fire-reaction Active network systems and accessories CATV Direct heating Fire-resistant Elevator Plastic optical fiber LV energy

6 from the basement to the roof Voice-Data-Image Solar panel Anti-intrusion SAFETY Fire-reaction Energy up to 1 kv prevent fire propagation and dramatically reduce smoke emission. Ideal for private homes and elevator shafts, this type of cable has also been used in Barcelona airport. Fire-resistant Standard low-voltage for domestic use (fire alarms, smoke evacuation, lighting, sprinklers) which continue to operate during a fire. All our fire-resistant also generate low smoke and minimal toxic and corrosive gases. Close Circuit TV (CCTV) CCTV are used to assure security monitoring by connecting a central monitor to cameras installed either inside or outside the house or apartment. CCTV cable is still an extremely economical option for private security systems. Anti-intrusion Standard that give a simple on/off signal for doors, window frames, etc. Nexans also designs special for motion detectors. Fire-reaction optical fiber LAN Multimode fiber with a 50 to 62.5 micron core provide an easy-to-install optical solution for home networks. These fibers use LEDs to provide cost-effective, triple-play services. Fire-reaction optical fiber LAN CCTV Teleport

7 INNOVATION is at the core of our products Nexans has R&D teams dedicated to the building market at its research and competence centers in Lyon (France), Nuremberg (Germany) and New Holland (USA). They draw on the collective knowledge of 450 researchers and engineers worldwide. Among breakthroughs in the housing sector are: merging of fiber and copper in FTTx customerpremises equipment fire-safety performance anticipating the European Construction Products Directive (CPD) interconnectivity for VDI and VOD-ready multimedia cabling solutions electromagnetic neutrality, special coatings and protective sheathings hybrid solutions for CCTV surveillance (fiber plus copper) slippery jackets for faster and easier installation low-smoke fire-reaction prewired conduits

8 Global expert in and cabling systems Nexans is the worldwide leader in the cable industry. The Group brings an extensive range of advanced copper and optical fiber cable solutions to the infrastructure, industry and building markets. Nexans and cabling systems can be found in every area of people's lives, from telecommunications and energy networks, to building, aeronautics, aerospace, automobile, railways, petrochemical, medical applications, etc. With an industrial presence in 29 countries and commercial activities throughout the world, Nexans employs 20,000 people and had sales in 2004 of 4.8 billion euros. Nexans is listed on the Paris stock exchange. 11/2005 Nexans S.A rue de Monceau Paris - France Tel: +33 (0) Fax: +33 (0) marcom.info@nexans.com S.A. with share capital of 23,189,947 euros RCS Paris