ECI Telecom announced a contract to supply over 800,000 advanced xDSL lines to a major, unnamed incumbent telecom operator in the Asia Pacific Region. ECI will supply its most updated Multi Service Access Gateway solution, Hi-FOCuS 4, for the deployment. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Earlier this month, ECI Telecom introduced Hi-FOCuS 4, its next-generation multiservice access gateway platform for use in all types of broadband networks, including DSL and FTTx. The platform provides very high port density of 960 lines per shelf and 3,840 lines per rack and can be deployed with optional functionality of multi-direction test access and line card redundancy. Furthermore, Hi-FOCuS 4 features a unique non-blocking backplane architecture that supports more than 20,000 simultaneous users with an aggregated capacity of more than 500 Gbps and with multiple connections to each user. ECI estimates that the bandwidth capabilities across the Hi-FOCuS 4 backplane provides ability to deliver over 500 video channels. It supports multi-level multicasting, enabling not only multi-channel TV services but also Video on Demand, video telephony, peer-to-peer services and other bandwidth demanding services.
