Cable & Wireless HKT Chooses ECI Telecom's xDSL Broadband Access Solutions to Deliver Broadband Internet Services
PETAH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2000, ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ/NM symbol: ECIL - news) announced today that Cable & Wireless HKT is deploying its Hi-FOCuS(TM) xDSL Broadband Access solutions to deliver broadband Internet to business and residential subscribers in Hong Kong.
The new orders further position ECI Telecom as a leading supplier of xDSL broadband access solutions throughout the world.
ECI Telecom has already supplied thousands of xDSL lines through its Hi-FOCuS solution to Cable & Wireless HKT. Cable & Wireless HKT has embarked upon one of the largest ADSL deployment programs in the Asia Pacific Region. ``We are committed to connecting more and more business and residential customers to high-speed transmission broadband services'', says Cheng Ka Hang, Executive Vice President, Technology and New Venture Management at Cable & Wireless HKT. ``ECI Telecom's Hi-FOCuS (TM) solution is enabling us to rapidly deploy these advanced services.''
ECI Telecom's Hi-FOCuS xDSL solution was chosen to serve Cable & Wireless HKT's broadband access layer of the network, following an extensive and competitive evaluation process.
``We are strategically focused at offering enhanced xDSL broadband access solutions to cater to the surging demand for high speed services of today's world. We have taken an end to end systems approach that addresses xDSL deployment issues with a realistic and elegant networking solution that supports carriers' goals to provide integrated access to the broadband network over existing infrastructure'', says Pinny Chaviv, ECI Telecom's Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Access Solutions. ``This solution enables the service provider to build a network that can scale effectively in the long term, while maximizing revenues in the short term.''
Amos Talmor-Hubschmann, ECI Telecom's Corporate Vice President and General Manager for the Asia Pacific region, said: ``Cable & Wireless HKT has extremely high standards, and we are pleased that they are able to meet the demands of their customers with our sophisticated DSL solution.''
Hi-FOCuS, incorporating ECI Telecom's innovative FractalLink architecture designed to enable co-existence of different transmission technologies (e.g. ADSL, ADSL lite, SDSL, and VDSL) within a single platform. This ability broadens the variety of services that can be provided through the system. Its ATM to the Subscriber architecture enables to differentiate service packages by supporting four Quality of Service (QoS) classes. The system additionally features ATM-OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance) capabilities, enabling the Telecom Operator to remotely detect and localize failures on the ATM service level.
For more information on Hi-FOCuS products and solutions, emphasizing economical, simple and easily deployable, end-to-end broadband network solutions, visit www.ecitele.com/xdsl.
ECI Telecom Ltd. is a provider of integrated network solutions for digital communications and data transmission systems. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets and supports end-to-end digital telecommunications solutions for today's new services and converging networks. The Company's products create bandwidth, maximize revenues for network operators, expand capacity, improve performance and enable new revenue-producing services. In doing so, they enhance the capabilities of existing networks to support voice, data, video and multimedia services. ECI Telecom's equipment supports traffic in more than 500 service networks in over 145 countries.
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