Telecom Lead Middle East: ECI Telecom, a provider of
next-generation network solutions, announced that the Israeli Electric
Corporation (IEC) has selected the company’s Apollo family of Optimized
Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT) platforms, part of ECI’s 1Net packet-optical
transport solutions.
The IEC selected ECI Telecom’s solution to address its
network connectivity needs. Apollo’s 100G capabilities will allow the company
to implement broadband services across the board, through optimized utilization
of existing resources.
The company said that the IEC tested the platform’s ability
to transmit 100 Gbit/s on a single wavelength during the 100G Apollo pilot.
The pilot, considered a technological breakthrough
for the IEC, introduced advanced capabilities in the company’s transmission
network, increasing capacity by more than tenfold.
This 100G trial represented a technological leapfrog for
the IEC, as we are able to expand and provide next-generation broadband
services over the most advanced optical infrastructure. With ECI’s Apollo OMLT,
we are better able to cope with our increasing needs for capacity and to
respond to our organizational and our customers’ demands for more bandwidth and
services,” said Yosi Shneck, VP for Information Systems and Communication, IEC.
The Apollo OMLT brings increased capacity, flexibility
and reliability for advanced data traffic services. As part of this deployment,
the IEC ran a successful pilot of the platform’s 100G capabilities.
100G technology is at the forefront of the telecom
market today, and only very few operators are deploying it at the moment. The
IEC belongs to a select group of providers who have embarked on a quantum leap
in terms of capacity and the ability to support advanced services and the
constant traffic growth rate. We are proud to deploy Israel’s first 100G
optical network,” said Oren Marmur, head of optical networking & CESR Lines
of Business, ECI Telecom.
Recently, ECI Telecom and MultiPhy, a provider of DSP-based CMOS communications
semiconductors, announced the development of a low-cost, metro 100G transport
solution.
