Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service     by Ian Colville       Home         Topics: Main | VoIP | Wireless | Undersea Cables | Security | IPTV | MSOs | CDNs  | Ethernet | Mergers  | Financials  | People  | Europe | Canada | China | Japan | Korea | India | Latin America | Archive   BT Openreach Selects ECI Telecom for Fiber Access BT's Openreach division has selected ECI Telecom as one of its strategic partners for its Super-Fast Fibre Access project. Under a multi-year agreement, ECI will provide its Hi-FOCuS Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) to roll-out a FTTP and FTTC network countrywide. Financial terms were not disclosed. Openreach has recently announced plans to invest a further £1bn (£2.5bn in total) to extend deployment of fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) and fiber-to-the- cabinet (FTTC) to around two-thirds of the UK by 2015. The network displays a first-of-its-kind architecture, based on FTTP GPON and fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) VDSL2 technologies. ECI's Hi-FOCuS MSAN supports multiple telecom providers through the same access fiber loop and enables Openreach to deliver equivalence to each Communications Provider for their individual and evolving bandwidth needs. The platform offers unique Ethernet aggregation capabilities that ensures true physical separation of each communication provider's network. ECI will also provide Openreach with customer premise equipment, street cabinets, and the appropriate service integration and commissioning. "With ECI as a strategic partner for this very advanced carrier-of-carriers architecture, we are able to upgrade our infrastructure offerings to Communications Providers and guarantee the provision of equivalency to all our customers. ECI's offerings are in line with our vision of a straightforward, more integrated and competitive network, simplifying management and supporting the optimization of our next-generation access network in an environmentally-friendly and responsible way," said Steve Robertson, Openreach's CEO. http://www.ecitele.com http://www.btplc.com 06-Jul-10     Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Service Provider News Australia's Nextgen Networks Tests 100G with Alcatel-Lucent 9/7/2010 Arbitration Tribunal Rules Against Telekomunikacja Polska 9/6/2010 BT's Openreach to Test Fibre Nomination Scheme 9/6/2010 China Telecom Americas Joins CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange 9/3/2010 MegaPath + Covad + Speakeasy Merger Completed 9/1/2010 AT&T Sells Japan Domestic Network Operations to IIJ 9/1/2010 euNetworks Builds Low-Latency Trading Net in London 9/1/2010 Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches 8/31/2010 NTT America Deploys VMware for Offering Cloud Services 8/31/2010 SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre 8/31/2010 Ridgemont Equity to Acquire Majority Stake in Unite Private Networks 8/31/2010 Singapore's M1 Offers 1 Gbps Residential Service 8/31/2010 Verizon Business Extends Cloud Services with VMware 8/31/2010 Verizon Boosts DSL to 10-15 Mbps Downstream 8/30/2010 Equinix Plans $63M Data Center in Hong Kong 8/30/2010 > More news...     Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service by Ian Colville Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras