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.
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.
