ECI Telecom has entered into a strategic partnership with Openreach, part of the BT Group, in BT’s drive to upgrade the UK’s broadband infrastructure.
The company said that network displays an architecture based on state-of-the-art fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) GPON and fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) VDSL2 technologies. Openreach will deploy ECI’s Hi-FOCuS Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) to roll-out a FTTP and FTTC network countrywide.
Openreach’s NGA project is being addressed utilising all the benefits of ECI’s 1Net framework for optimised migration to next-generation networks, including reduced risk in capital investment choices, increased scalability to meet ever-growing bandwidth needs, and improved revenue growth by supporting a wide array of business models
The company said that the offerings 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.
In addition, ECI will also provide Openreach with best-of-breed customer premise equipment, street cabinets, and the appropriate service integration and commissioning.
Rafi Maor, president and CEO of ECI Telecom, said: "Through a future-proof network proposition, we partner with Openreach in this first-of-its-kind project to guarantee high-speed infrastructure and a viable business model. We support Openreach’s goal for cost-effective high-speed infrastructure offerings without compromising quality, security or competitiveness in such an open access environment."
