The Russian transmission market is on the rise and is currently one of the fastest growing in the world, experiencing 50 percent growth in 2007 alone and an average global industry growth of 20 percent, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert).
And one company leading growth in this region and space is ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure solutions optimized for next-generation network migration.
In fact, says Beatrice Shepherd, director of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia’s Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at Frost & Sullivan, ECI is a
a market share leader in this segment with 24 percent market share in the SDH, DWDM and ROADM (News - Alert) market.
The Israeli-based networking infrastructure solutions provider has been active in the Russian and Former Soviet Union markets for 14 years, and continues to successfully address the specific needs of carriers in this high-growth market. “Service providers in Russia rely heavily on their relationship with us to support their networking needs,” said Shepherd.
“As a long-time vendor in this market, we are able to partner with our customers to better address their growing challenges on all fronts from technology all the way through comprehensive post-sales support and systems integration,” said Boris Mirkin, president of the FSU Regional Business Unit at ECI Telecom (News - Alert).
And the space appears to be gearing up for long-term growth. Frost & Sullivan expects the optical network equipment market in Russia to continue its growth for at least the next two to three years.
The market research firm says there is “untapped potential” from utility companies entering the telecom sector.
According to Frost & Sullivan, these ‘utelcos’ are competing more effectively with established service providers by offering quality of service and experience and by containing their OPEX (News - Alert) in the long run.
In recent years ECI has become a global player in the increasingly important utilities market, with major network deployments in the Former Soviet Union, Europe, China and India. While ECI continues to focus on growth markets as the cornerstone of the company’s strategy, they have built on there momentum in these markets.
ECI recently announced moves further into the Indian transmission market for the third year in a row, demonstrating its potential in another important growing market. ECI is also focused on the other BRIC countries of Brazil, and China, with local offices and growing revenues.
ECI offers the XDM and BroadGate families of transport platforms, the Hi-FOCuS family of multi-service access node, the 9000 Family of Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router, SoftSwitches and Anti-Fraud and Revenue Assurance applications.
Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To read more of Tim’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Tim Gray