ECI Telecom's SDH Solutions Operational in Deutsche Telekom's New High Performance Net.PETAH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 1998--ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ/NM:ECILF) announced today the successful commission into operation of ECI ECI Employment Cost Index ECI Election Commission(er) of India ECI Enterprise Content Integration ECI Early Childhood Intervention ECI Environmental Change Institute Telecom's SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy equipment, to support live traffic on Deutsche Telekom's new High Performance National Backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. . Deployed across Germany, Deutsche Telekom's national network provides its customers high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of end-to-end services. The new network comprises ECI Telecom's SDM-16, 2.5Gbit/s Add/Drop multiplexers and regenerators configured in multi-ring topologies, connecting German city rings with the country's metropolitan networks. The network's capabilities are further enhanced by ECI Telcom's eNM, network management solutions which centrally manage and monitor the network from Frankfurt. Jehonatan Neuberger, President of ECI Germany said: "ECI Telecom ECI Telecom Ltd NASDAQ: ECIL, is a telecommunication equipment manufacturer based in Petah Tikva, Israel. is very pleased to participate in the commencement of 'High Performance Net' Hi-Speed Network of Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. . It was a challenge to implement this network consisting of 10 rings, hundreds of network elements and a central management station in Frankfurt. The close cooperation with the personnel from various departments within Deutsche Telekom AG made the successful and timely deployment of this network possible." Special optical solutions have been specifically designed and developed by ECI Telecom for Deutsche Telekom's networks that enable transmission of traffic over long distances of up to 110 km, substantially reducing the amount of regenerators and eliminating the need of optical power booster equipment between each ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. . The SDM-16 enables direct access of 2Mbit/s bandwidth from 2.5Gbit/s fiber. ECI Telecom's SDH activity in Germany additionally includes major projects such as Deutsche Telekom's VISYON VISYON Variables Intelligentes Synchrones Optisches Netz network, which comprises a large installed base of SDM-1, SDM-4 and SDM-16 terminals, Add/Drop and local cross connect multiplexers in ring and mesh topologies throughout Germany. A provider of integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public 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 more effectively utilize existing networks for voice, data, wide area and integrated networks. This press release and additional information about the Company is now available on ECI Telecom's site on the World Wide Web: http://www.ecitele.com. Certain statements contained in this release may contain forward-looking information with respect to plans, projections or future performance of the Company, the occurrence of which involves certain risks and uncertainties including but not limited to, product and market acceptance risks, the impact of competitive pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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