Ericsson wins breakthrough contract with Italian Kingcom.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2001 The Italian operator Kingcom has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ERICY) as the supplier for its IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. solution, based on Broadband Ethernet Access. The first of these networks will serve subscribers in the southern Italian city of Salerno with a variety of services like IP telephony, fast Internet and other innovative services. The contract, for the development of a turnkey complete solution, is the first phase of a general agreement between Ericsson and Kingcom to build out similar projects in other cities and enterprises in southern Italy. "Broadband Ethernet Access and IP telephony will generate an important part of our broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. services," says Giuseppe Di Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. , Managing Director of Kingcom. "Ericsson's products target precisely this market and will provide us with the capabilities to offer our customers the best services on the market." "We are very pleased that Kingcom, as a pioneering operator in this field, has chosen Ericsson to supply their IP and Broadband network," says Ove Anebygd, Vice President, Ericsson Multi-Service Networks. "This is a true breakthrough for us in the Broadband Ethernet Access area and confirms Ericsson's leadership in IP and Broadband solutions." Ericsson's Broadband Ethernet Access solution, which uses the DRG DRG, n the abbreviation for diagnosis-related group. DRG see dorsal respiratory group. DRG Diagnosis-related group Managed care A unit of classifying Pts by diagnosis, average length of hospital stay, and residential gateway to connect the optical fiber to subscribers' houses and offices, allows for swift and cost-efficient build-out of new broadband communities. The broadband communities are as robust and reliable as traditional telephony systems, with up to 100Mb/s capacity to each end-user, shared between data and telephony traffic. Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet See broadband. communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. Read more at http://www.ericsson.com/press About Kingcom Kingcom is a new operator on the Italian market with the ambition to become the largest operator in southern Italy, by providing their customers with telephony service with toll-quality over the same infrastructure as their broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a , and re-use of customers' existing telephones. |
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