BT RESPONDS TO BUOYANT DEMAND FOR PHONE LINES BY DEPLOYING ECI TELECOM'S DIGILOOP DACS SYSTEMS.PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 1996--ECI TELECOM LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability . (NASDAQ/NM symbol: ECILF) has announced that BT is continuing to deploy ECI's PCM-2 pair gain product on a large scale in order to quickly and efficiently boost the supply of telephone lines to subscribers. ECI ECI Employment Cost Index ECI Election Commission(er) of India ECI Enterprise Content Integration ECI Early Childhood Intervention ECI Environmental Change Institute has already supplied in excess of 100,000 systems to BT. Firm call-offs for the July to September 1996 period total some $6.5 million, with an additional $6.5 million forecasted for by the customer for the October to December 1996 period, totaling $13 million. The PCM-2 enables single twisted-pair copper subscriber loops to carry two digital (64 Kbit/sec) calls simultaneously. The service provider can therefore provide a subscriber with an additional telephone "line" for voice, fax or data use, without laying any additional cables. The systems, which incorporate the latest in digital technologies, employ high speed (up to 160 Kbit/sec) digital transmission and echo cancellation techniques and use ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. (Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. ) protocols. Hundreds of thousands of similar ECI Telecom DIGILOOP PCM-2 units are currently in service in other European and US telephone networks. Uri Kashti, Vice President and General Manager of the Network Access Business Unit, said: "We view the growing deployment by BT of our pair gain products as a vote of confidence in our technology and service and are proud to be a major supplier to BT of this product line." The Digital Access Carrier System (DACS DACS Data & Analysis Center for Software DACS Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (University of Twente, Netherlands) DACS Digital Access & Cross-Connect System DACS Data Acquisition and Control System (NASA) ) is a version of ECI's PCM-2 pair gain product designed specifically to meet BT's specifications. ECI is BT's largest supplier of pair gain products and its sole supplier of HDSL See DSL. HDSL - High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (communications, protocol) High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line - (HDSL) A form of Digital Subscriber Line, providing T1 or E1 connections over two or three twisted-pair copper lines, respectively. ) systems. A provider of integrated network solutions, ECI TELECOM designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital telecommunications and data transmission systems, enabling network operators to deliver cost-effective services. ECI TELECOM's systems provide capacity expansion, flexibility and management functions to better utilize existing and new telecommunications, data, wide area and integrated networks. CONTACT: ECI Telecom Ltd. Doron Inbar 972-3-9266585 or Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc. Bharti Malkani/Jean O'Dea 212-838-3777 (ext. 106 or ext. 129) |
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