ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECIL), a global provider of networking infrastructure equipment, announced today that Bharti Airtel Limited, India's leading provider of telecommunications services, has chosen ECI to supply equipment for their nationwide optical network expansion. This one-year contract will enable network expansions through ECI's advanced XDM[R] Converged Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP). These expansions allow Bharti to add new services, such as broadband data, voice and leased lines, while supporting more subscribers.
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More » In the last 12 months, Bharti Airtel has witnessed spectacular growth both in terms of customers and revenues, thereby dominating the Indian telecom space. Airtel recently became the first Indian mobile service provider joining the exclusive club of global service providers with more than 40 million customers from a single-country. In order to manage and handle this continual growth, Bharti Airtel selected ECI's optical solutions to increase their network capacity from 2.5G to 10G and to Metro DWDM, and to expand their current network beyond the existing footprint. With this network expansion, Airtel will be reaching out to far-flung areas in the country providing many in India with access for the first time.
Rajan Swaroop, Executive Director, Airtel Enterprise Services-Carrier, said, "At Airtel it is our constant endeavour to provide reliable, robust and ubiquitous connectivity solutions. To help deliver this promise to our customers, we have chosen to partner with ECI, with whom we've had a successful association since 1999." He further added, "The best-in-class equipment, reliability and superior support that we receive from ECI are a perfect match to the world-class connectivity solutions and quality-of-service that Bharti Airtel delivers to its customers. This relationship reinforces our commitment to invest in state of the art technologies for providing scalable and future proof solutions to our customers."
ECI's highly scalable XDM platform offers scalable capacity with minimal hardware changes, thus leveraging the present infrastructure and providing superior savings in CAPEX. The platform's LightSoft[R] network management system delivers the additional support required to manage Bharti's network of such size and capacity. Along with the XDM platform providing reliable quality-of-service, ECI has provided an expert level of commitment to Bharti while continuing to address the need for minimal costs in infrastructure through its country-wide infrastructure.
"Our long-standing partnership with Bharti reinforces our leadership in the Indian market and validates our strengths and capabilities," said Ido Gur, Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, at ECI Telecom. "ECI's product roadmap reflects the requirements of Indian operators like Bharti and this win demonstrates our deep understanding of the market and ability to meet a wide range of needs for transmission solutions. It's a pleasure to have Bharti as one of our major strategic customers." In 2007, ECI Telecom was ranked the number one transmission equipment vendor in the Indian telecom market, by magazine Voice & Data
