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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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