Good news, but not obvious - this could mean lots of VOCLF large gateways in China. biz.yahoo.com
PETAH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1998--ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ/NM symbol: ECILF - news) announced today that it has been chosen by the PTB of Kunming, the capital of China's Yunan province, to supply its SDH solutions for Kunming's city network. The project was developed as part of Kunming's PTB Telecom network modernization plan.
ECI Telecom's SDM-16 Add/Drop multiplexers provide high capacity transmission, supporting two 2.5 Gbit/s optical aggregate line interfaces and enables access to 2 Mbit/s tributary signals. The system supports a wide range of services and interfaces including telephony, data and video, and allows easy integration with existing and future networks. ECI Telecom's eNM network management solutions will monitor and manage Kunming's network, performing end to end service management operations from a central operator station.
Mr. Hezi Lapid, ECI Telecom's Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Network Systems Business Unit said: ''ECI Telecom is rapidly becoming one of the largest suppliers of SDH solutions to China as we continue to add to our well-established track record in China. We are pleased to be working with Kunming on the modernization of their Telecom networks.''
The Kunming City Network is expected to be put into operation in June 98.
Amongst other significant ECI Telecom SDH projects in China are: The longest SDH backbone network in the world supplied by ECI Telecom covering 7,298km in Inner Mongolia. Additionally, ECI Telecom and Hunan Post and Telecom Administration (HPTA) have repeatedly worked together to build the infrastructure of the Hunan Province of China. ECI Telecom's SDH activity in Hunan includes a recently announced US$31 million SDH contract to distribute voice, data, and video to the millions of residents of the Hunan province. ECI Telecom has also supplied major SDM-16 projects to the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Anhui, and Zhejiang.
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