Several new announcements indicate that ECI Telecom is pushing today’s IP envelope. For starters, Beijing Power has selected ECI to upgrade its optical communications network in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. This follows on the heels of another 2008 Olympics-related contract that was awarded to ECI earlier this year by Beijing Subways to upgrade its communications system.

In preparation for the Olympics, Beijing Power is building new power stations, connecting multiple Olympics sites and upgrading its current communications infrastructure. ECI's XDM optical solution will be used to expand this network, providing Beijing Power with additional bandwidth capacity to handle peak demand during the Games. This scalable network will be used for internal communications and for data communications in order to monitor the power stations and generators. The network will be managed by ECI’s LightSoft network management system, enabling Beijing Power to easily provision and control new services.

ECI Telecom has also introduced a family of carrier ethernet line cards for its Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) product line. These new, cost-effective modules enable operators to deliver a myriad of carrier-class Ethernet services and applications that include triple-play services, business VPNs, wholesale applications and comprehensive solutions for mobile operators. Multiple carriers have already ordered the cards, which will be commercially available in early 2007. This new offering, which is part of ECI's XDM platform, will allow operators to rapidly introduce revenue generating carrier-class Ethernet services.

What’s more, ECI Telecom has announced a new feature set for its carrier-class network management system (NMS), LightSoft V3. LightSoft V3 provides a multi-dimensional approach to management, giving carriers the ability to view and administer their entire infrastructure of converged Optical, Ethernet and SONET/SDH networks. By managing multiple layers from a single system, LightSoft V3 enhances carriers' ability to easily and efficiently manage and optimize their networks, while reducing OPEX (News - Alert).

And finally, ECI Telecom has unveiled a standards-based solution for 10G LAN transport over DWDM. By adding Ethernet and IP over DWDM and Optical Transport Networks (OTN) with full QoS support, operators gain bandwidth performance for triple-play aggregation, business data services and IP backbone connectivity with guaranteed quality of service.