 | Thinking of Making the Jump to Uteclo? Take it Easy | | March 2010 by Marcelo Blatt |
ECI Telecom expert Marcelo Blatt maps out a network evolution approach for utility companies looking to capitalize on new opportunities for revenue in telecommunications while preserving mission critical applications. |
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 | Got copper access? You could already be ready for IPTV | | February 15, 2010 by Ido Shargil |
Ido Shargil, Head of System Engineering at ECI Telecom and Chairman of iSMART Consortium compares developing technologies to extend the life of existing copper wire-line access infrastructure for high-demand services like IPTV, Video-on-Demand, and Personal Video Recording. |
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 | Close-up with Laura Howard, CMO, ECI Telecom | | February 3, 2010 by Laura Howard |
Interview with ECI Telecom CMO Laura Howard outlines her strategy for improving mindshare while navigating the new communications landscape in an industry challenged by customer consolidation. |
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 | Transitioning to next-gen automated design tools | | January, 2010 |
Telecom operators facing process dilemmas in the business and technical aspects of their network protection schemes are introduced to next-generation automated planning tools and the results they can yield. |
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 | Scalable MSO Infrastructure for Residential and Business Services | | January 1, 2010 by Yoram Levkovitz |
Differentiating services such as residential video content and opportunities in new segments such as mobile backhaul and enterprise services are forcing MSOs to rethink network architecture. ECI Telecom senior solutions manager, Yoram Levkovitz discusses how MSOs should be evaluating their service offerings. |
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 | Escaping the backhaul trap | | November 23, 2009 by Oren Barkai and Adi Mendel |
Exploring key issues in existing network infrastructures, ECI Telecom experts Oren Barkai and Adi Mendel present the strategies and technologies required for transforming network backhaul to meet today’s mobility demands. |
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 | Optical Communications for Improving the Performance and Reliability of the Smart Grid | | November/December 2009 |
Smart grid business objectives are achievable while preserving current infrastructure investments. ECI Telecom outlines strategic considerations for the planning, designing, engineering and technology applications that can make it possible. |
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 | Growing pains in a shrinking world | | November, 2009 by Tony Scarfo |
ECI Telecom chief strategy officer Tony Scarfo explains how to manage the ever-increasing amount of traffic generated by new smartphone technologies by leveraging f an all-IP fibre network. |
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 | ECI Telecom Intros Network Design, Optimization Services | | October 23, 2009 |
Feature news coverage highlighting new ECI Telecom service offerings for network design, network audit and traffic analysis and optimization. |
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 | ECI Ups Its Services Game | | October 20, 2009 |
Light Reading covers the launch of new professional services offerings from ECI Telecom, highlighting the positive success already achieved by the new offerings in action with Vodafone. |
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 | Supercomm 2009 | | October 2009 by Laura Howard |
TMC News interviews ECI Telecom CMO Laura Howard at Supercomm 2009 about the newly launched suite of services and tools designed to optimize network planning, maintenance and operation. |
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 | Mobility: Anytime Anywhere Connectivity | | June 2, 2009 |
3G is finally available in India, and while the actual roll out of it will take some more time, 3G brings a number of exciting new services and better capabilities. This article defines 3G and discusses the myriad of benefits it can offer by seeking input from vendors such as ECI Telecom’s India President Kiran Pande. Some of the benefits to users include better voice quality, faster downloads and access to email, video calling, video conferencing and mobile entertainment like interactive games.
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 | Packet Optical is No 'God Box' | | June 1, 2009 by David Dunphy |
The revenues opportunities for packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTP) are potentially huge. David Dunphy, Principal Analyst and Managing Partner at Telecom Strategy Partners, reviews why the market has been slow to ramp up—looking at the evolving definition and complexity, the benefits of P-OTPs and compares current vendor including ECI Telecom.
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 | Greenfield operators : Eyeing Opportunities | | May 06, 2009 |
In a first of its kind event, Voice & Data, one of India's most prominent industry publications, in association with ECI, brought India's new telecom operators for a round table to discuss the opportunities and challenges of 'Building Today's Network for Tomorrow'.
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| Greenfield Operators: Eyeing Opportunities | | May 2009 by Gagandeep Kuar |
Gagandeep Kuar, Reporter for Voice & Data, reviews a roundtable event held by Voice & Data along with ECI Telecom that brought new telecom operators together to discuss building today’s network for tomorrow. Greenfield operators voiced the belief that differentiation of their services is what will make them stand apart from incumbents. They also discussed the idea of cooperation as a means to overcome various challenges.
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| Let the War Begin | | May 2009 by Gagandeep Kuar |
India is one of the few markets in telecom that has a high number of service providers and they are preparing to receive six more players in the field. In this article, Gagandeep Kuar, Reporter for Voice & Data, discusses the different business strategies the new operators may take to differentiate themselves and the challenges they will face in an already crowded market.
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| Poaching with Portability | | May 2009 by Jatinder Singh |
After years of consideration, mobile number portability (MNP) is finally being brought into the Indian telecom market. In this article, Jatinder Singh, Reporter for Voice & Data, discusses with various telecom executives including ECI’s EVP of Global Sales and Marketing, Aviel Tenenbaum, whether the timing is right, and what challenges and opportunities MNP will bring. |
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 | Adopting an Effective Mobile Backhauling Strategy | | April/May 2009 by Yoram Levkovitz |
As mobile traffic increases, the need arises for more effective cellular backhaul solutions to accommodate service provider and end-user demands for more bandwidth. In this article, Yoram Levkovitz, solutions marketing manager at ECI Telecom, reviews the various mobile market needs in Africa and describes the ultimate solution to meet the requirements of any generation of mobile networks—from 1G to 4G.
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 | AccessKenya Teams Up with ECI | | April 28, 2009 by Wambui Waweru |
Wambui Waweru, Editor of Capital Business, reports on ECI’s new customer in Africa, AccessKenya. ECI will help to AccessKenya’s new metropolitan fiber network, the largest IP-based fiber network in Kenya.
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 | Hello, Efficiency | | April 27, 2009 by Mia Andric |
Mia Andric, Editor of iWeek, speaks with Adi Leshem, corporate business development manager for ECI Telecom, to learn what is driving the need for outsourced telecommunications advisory and management. Adi further reveals why these services are growing in the South African market.
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| It Just Makes Business Sense | | April 27, 2009 by Mia Andric |
In this article, Mia Andric, Editor of iWeek, discusses the appeal of managed infrastructure services—improves performance and lowers expenses. Mia interviews Adi Leshem, corporate business development manager for ECI Telecom, who offers insight on how the recession has helped to drive this market.
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| ECI's CSO, Tony Scarfo: Cable Companies Keeping an Eye on Capex | | April 6, 2009 by Kevin Cramer |
Light Reading interviews ECI’s Tony Scarfo, CSO, about a recent Heavy Reading finding that CAPEX for the MSO’s is going to be down for 2009 and beyond. Tony shares ECI’s insights on what the company sees for MSOs—that cable companies, like everyone else, are trying to reduce expenses but are continuing to invest in core business and growth areas so they will continue to spend to be in a good position to grow in this economy. Tony also shares other insights for the MSO market including what cable operators will need to offer bundled triple-play services to compete against telecommunication operators in the North American commercial markets.
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 | Frost & Sullivan Validates ECI Telecom's Market Share of Russian Transmission | | March 24, 2009 by Michael Schwartz |
The transmission market in Russia is one of the world’s fastest growing at a rate of 50% per year. Michael Schwartz, Editor of Developing Telecoms, discusses how ECI is helping to drive this growth. More specifically, he reviews ECI’s status as a market share leader in the transmission market as validated by Frost & Sullivan, one of the largest market research companies worldwide.
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 | ECI Launches BroadGate-64 MSPP | | March 20, 2009 by David Masters |
David Masters, Staff Writer of The Telecom, reviews the key highlights of ECI’s newest BroadGate micro MSPP including its compact size, ability to handle Ethernet and TDM services over SDH and flexible design to meet current and future requirements for metro-access aggregation networks.
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 | ECI: BG-64 Designed for Emerging Markets Where Legacy Systems Still Dominate | | March 19, 2009 by Patrick Nixon |
Patrick Nixon, Editor of Business News Americas, interviews ECI’s CMO Laura Howard to discuss ECI’s new BG-64 Multi Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP). Laura reviews the highlights and significance of the latest MSPP, particularly the suitability of the BG-64 for emerging markets where there is still a predominance of legacy voice networks.
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| ECI Accelerates Israeli MSO’s Backbone | | March 18, 2009 by Brian Santo |
Brian Santo, Editor of CED magazine, reviews ECI’s latest contract win with Israeli cable operator HOT, who will be deploying ECI’s MSPP and ROADM solution for a major backbone network expansion.
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 | A Challenging Time Is a Time of Opportunity for Telecoms | | March 16, 2009 by Laura Howard |
ECI’s CMO, Laura Howard, discusses how important it is for telecom operators not to cease migration plans to next-generation networks during this economic downturn. Furthermore, she explains how not all markets are equally affected, that there are regions still growing.
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 | Guest Blog: A Unified NMS? | | March 9, 2009 by Oded Harniv |
Networks are becoming increasingly complex with more layers and new technologies. The best approach to managing such networks is with a unified network management system (NMS). Oded Harniv, the head of the Advanced Software Services department at ECI Telecom, discusses the different aspects of a unified NMS and determines the best NMS solution for network needs.
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| Wireline Infrastructure: Regaining Lost Glory | | March 06, 2009 by Jatinder Singh |
In this article, Jatinder Singh, Reporter for Voice & Data, that while there is huge growth potential for the telecom sector in India, growth of wireless services has not boomed as much as others. Service providers still have not identified the factors that drive the standards in wireline space, but have hope in the emergence of several new technologies. |
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| The Time Is Right for IPTV | | March 3, 2009 by Ron Levin |
IPTV has been a major buzz word for almost a decade; however the “explosion” of IPTV has not occurred yet. Ron Levin, Associate VP of Product Marketing, Network Solutions Division at ECI Telecom, discusses how now may be the best time for IPTV deployment as TV networks switch from analogue to digital and from standard to high definition.
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 | Fiber Deployment Round – Waiting for the Deluge | | March, 2009 by Masha Zager |
As Masha Zager, Editor of Broadband Properties, reports, many companies want to deliver fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) but new deployments have been slow. Despite the slowdown, there are still plans and developments of FTTH networks within the US and Europe. One of the upcoming European deployments is by Lattelecom who will use ECI’s GPON solution to build an FTTH network to provide customers with triple-play and other bandwidth-intensive services.
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 | News in Brief: ECI in BRIC | | February 26, 2009 |
In this article, major announcements are highlighted including news that analyst group Frost & Sullivan has validated ECI’s leadership in the Russian transmission market—one of the fastest growing worldwide. Additionally, the article notes ECI’s leadership in the Indian transmission market, as well as the company’s growing presence and activities in China and Brazil.
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 | NGN Transformation in the Midst of Recession | | February 23, 2009 by Shai Perach |
Due to the current economic slowdown, some telecom executives are considering deferring plans for the transition to next-generation networks (NGN), believing capital spending on the migration is a luxury rather than a necessity. In this article, Shai Perach, Director Product Marketing, Data Platform of ECI Telecom discusses how adapting plans to the economic conditions, telecom executives may find the recession to be an opportunity to successfully transform to NGN, rather than an obstacle.
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 | Latvia Has Grand FTTH plans | | February 12, 2009 by Pauline Rigby |
While incumbent carriers in Europe are putting GPON technology in the back seat and holding off on fibre deployment until customers demand services that cannot run over existing broadband technologies, Pauline Rigby, Editor of Fibresystems.org, notes one exception in Lattelecom. Although an incumbent carrier in Latvia, Lattelecom awarded ECI a contract for GPON equipment to build a network offering ambitious access speeds of 500 Mbits/s by the end of 2009.
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| FTTH Europe: ECI Bags GPON Deal | | February 11, 2009 by Ray Le Maistre |
Ray Le Maistre, Light Reading’s International News Editor, reviews how ECI has gained traction in the growing European GPON market through a contract with Lattelecom Group. He points out the significance of this win stating that this new customer is a proof point for ECI’s recently launched GPON platform and the fact that Lattelecom has bold targets to offer with the fastest FTTH network.
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 | ECI Bags Deal With Smart | | February 3, 2009 by Lawrence Casiraya |
In this article, Lawrence Casiraya, Reporter for Inquirer.net, reviews ECI’s 2-year contract win with SMART Communications for management services of SMART’s nationwide transmission network.
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| ECI's Power Play | | January 28, 2009 by Ray Le Maistre |
Previously, ECI discussed with Ray Le Maistre, Light Reading’s International News Editor, the many new business opportunities the company is seeing with “utelcos.” In his blog post, Ray reviews the recent wins ECI has had in this market, including with French electricity supplier RTE, Danish municipality ELRO, as well as other wins in China, India and Europe. |
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 | RTE Deal Exemplary of Burgeoning Utility Market, Says ECI Telecom | | January 27, 2009 by Stephen Hardy |
Stephen Hardy, Executive Editor at Lightwave, interviews ECI’s Marcelo Blatt, director of solutions marketing. The article reviews RTE’s selection of ECI’s XDM and BroadGate MSPPs for a multi-million dollar project for delivery of mission-critical applications.
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| ECI Telecom Lands Multi-Million Dollar Deal to Power France | | January 27, 2009 by Tim Gray |
TMCnet’s Web Editor, Tim Gray, reviews ECI’s multi-million dollar deal with French utility company RTE for the provisioning of real-time and mission-critical services throughout RTE’s network. Furthermore, he discusses ECI’s growing presence as a global player in the utilities market.
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| Good News for Telecom Vendors | | January 26, 2009 by Laura Howard |
Even though the current global economy is in a slowdown, there is still reason for some cautious optimism within the telecommunications industry. In a blog by ECI’s CMO, Laura Howard, she explains that because telecommunications is a necessity the business opportunities are still there, particularly for bandwidth as demand remains strong.
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| ECI: For Carriers and ISPs, Optical Fiber and Broadband Wireless Each Has Its Place | | January 14, 2009 by Richard Grigonis |
Optical fiber and broadband wireless are not necessarily competitors; in fact, broadband wireless can complement the capabilities of optical fiber. Richard Grigonis, Executive Editor of TMC, discusses with ECI’s Ron Levin, Associate VP of Product Marketing, why for carriers it is not an “either/or;” rather it all depends on the carrier’s situation and needs. Ron further discusses about varying situations where one technology may be more suitable than the other.
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 | Next-gen Planning Tools - When Efficiency Isn't Enough | | January 7, 2009 by Lior Tourgeman, Ronen Mikdashi |
The migration of existing networks to next-generation is crucial to the telecom industry's future, but it's not the only issue that needs to be addressed. Lior Tourgeman, Senior Product Manager Planning and Optimization Tools, and Ronen Mikdashi, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Network Solutions Division of ECI Telecom, discuss why improving efficiency through traditional means is not enough. Instead, planning tools focused strictly on next-generation networking are what is needed to plan for any truly efficient migration strategy.
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| The Telecoms World in 2009 | | December 23, 2008 by Annie Turner |
Annie Turner, Editor of TelecomsEurope, interviews ECI’s Laura Howard, CMO, discussing the upcoming telecom trends for 2009. While some see a slowdown for network upgrade, Laura offers and discusses a cautious, yet more optimistic outlook indicating that despite the current economy the need for more bandwidth is still there.. |
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| ECI Telecom Extends Ethernet MPLS Capabilities to Access Transport | | December 8, 2008 by Jim Carroll |
Jim Carroll, Editor of Converge! Network Digest, reviews key highlights of ECI’s new Ethernet MPLS capabilities for access transport for its BroadGate MSPP product family.
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 | Managed services: A new paradigm? | | November 24, 2008 |
Faced with increased competition, operators are forced to focus more on customer-facing operations and outsource their non-core, back-end operations to network vendors. ECI’s Ami Nissimov, VP Managed Services, discusses the move toward managed services and what this trend means. |
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 | The Case for Network Centric Warfare | | November 14, 2008 |
One of the security threats militaries face is to their communication networks which transport sensitive voice, data and video. As a result, governments have deployed network-centric warfare (NCW) as an integral part of their military might. Oren Barkai, ECI’s Senior System Architect, Government & Defense Solutions, reviews the basic infrastructure elements to build a true network-centric operation. |
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 | Network Management Strategies for Carrier Ethernet | | October 28, 2008 |
In this article, Tomar Ilan, ECI’s Product Manager, looks at the various possible implementations of Carrier Ethernet networks and the challenges each approach provides in implementing a successful network management system. |
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 | ECI Targets Wireless Backhaul, OSS | | October 23, 2008 |
Ray Le Maistre, Light Reading’s International News Editor, reviews ECI’s upcoming plans to develop more granular, focused CESR platforms that target wireless backhaul and working as a managed services partner with carriers through development of OSS tools. |
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| Triton Telecom Taps ECI for 10G Caribbean Undersea Fiber Network | | October 6, 2008 |
Khali Henderson, Group Editor for Virgo Publishing's Telecom Division, interviews ECI’s Wayne Walters, Director of Market Development and Cobian’s CEO Joanne Negron. Henderson discusses Triton Telecom’s deployment of ECI’s XDM MSPP for a 10G undersea fiber network in the Caribbean. |
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 | Deciphering encryption: Choosing the best protection for your network | | October 2008 |
Communication networks have become a crucial component of the military's day-to-day operation and ensuring these networks are secure is crucial. Oren Barkai, Senior Product Manager & Solutions Team Leader, Network Solutions Division examines security threats and with encryption as the basis of network protection, compares the two of the most common encryption methods. |
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 | RACSA deploys ECI's multi-service provisioning platform | | August 26, 2008 |
Patrick Nixon, Telecom Sector Head of BNAmericas, interviews ECI’s Ehud Bejerano Americas Associate VP for Sales and Marketing. The article reviews RACSA’s deployment of ECI’s XDM MSPP for network expansion to strengthen its competitiveness. |
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 | ECI finds its niche in China's telecom market - ECI chief marketing officer | | August 6, 2008 |
Interfax China’s Telecom Media and Technology Senior Reporter, Iris Hong, interviews with Laura Howard, CMO regarding how the company has been able to carve out a niche in China—a difficult market to enter—by targeting the transportation and utilities sector.
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| Advances in WDM and ROADMs: The key to your success | | August 5, 2008 |
ECI’s Ronen Mikdashi, Senior Product Marketing Manager examines the advanced in multi-degree ROADMs and packet optical networking technologies enable service providers to remain competitive.
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 | Utopia as a Utelco? | | August 2008 |
Today, utility companies are facing two important business challenges: to improve productivity and find ways to diversify their business lines to increase revenues. ECI’s Ronen Mikdashi, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Marcelo Blatt, Director, Solutions Marketing, describe how packet-optical convergence can meet these challenges and become competitive telecom carriers (utelcos). |
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 | Overcome the obstacles and dilemmas in building Next-Generation optical networks--Part I | | July 31, 2008 |
ECI’s Ronen Mikdashi, Senior Product Marketing Manager, reviews the basic building blocks of a Next-Generation Network along with the dilemmas and challenges of implementation. |
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 | Carrier Ethernet Growth | | July 9, 2008 |
The Carrier Ethernet market remains one of the fastest growing and most competitive spaces in technology according to Rich Tehrani, TMC’s President and Group Editor-in-Chief. Tehrani interviews with Rafael Francis, ECI’s Associate Vice President (AVP) Product Management, to discuss MPLS vs. PBB-TE debate, where the market growth will be, including some thoughts on the ECI product line and how the company differentiates itself in a competitive market.
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 | Why Convergence? | | June 5, 2008 |
In order to hold a more competitive and advantageous position compared with their competitors, carriers today are looking for evolutionary approaches to maximize their revenues from existing infrastructure while minimizing both the life-cycle and operational costs of their networks. In this article Ronen Mikdashi, ECI’s Senior Product Marketing Manager, examines how packet-optical convergence can achieve this and provide simple network operations, reduce CAPEX and OPEX, as well as offer scalability, flexibility, and quality of service capabilities. |
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 | Transmitting Success | | June 3, 2008 |
Voice & Data, India's leading telecom magazine published by Cyber Media, ranked ECI as the #1 transmission equipment vendor in India for the third consecutive year. This article discussed this year’s growth drivers in the transmission market for India and ranked ECI as the top player ahead of Alcatel Lucent, Huawei, and others. |
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| The Role of Network Management Systems in a Self-Service World | | May 23, 2008 |
The trend of self-service is pervasive even into the world of communications where business and wholesale customers are increasingly demanding the option to self-manage their services or their leased part of a service provider’s (SP) network. ECI’s Tomer Ilan, Product Manager in the Network Management and Planning Unit, discusses how as networks evolve—particularly as carriers move into multi-technology environments—a converged multilayer NMS can address the need for flexible network management software that will enable self-service for their customers. |
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 | Philippine Carrier Outsources to Israeli firm | | February 5, 2009 by Melvin Calimag |
Melvin Calimag, IT Writer for ZDnet Asia, interviews ECI’s Aviel Tenenbaum, Executive Vice President for Global Sales, and Rondell Cruz, ECI’s Philippines President. In this article, he reviews ECI’s contract with SMART Communications to manage SMART’s network traffic. Additionally, Melvin discusses ECI’s growing presence in the Philippines market and the opportunities the company foresees.
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