June 14, 2006 Petah Tikva, Israel -- ECI Telecom today announced that Dreamline Co., Ltd., a cellular and broadband service provider in South Korea, has selected ECI's optical systems for the upgrade and expansion of its nationwide network to support next-generation services. With the ECI equipment, Dreamline will be able to provide its customers with new and advanced services, leverage additional revenue-generating opportunities, and increase average revenue per user (ARPU).
As part of the agreement, Dreamline will deploy ECI gear in its nationwide network, which is expected to reach approximately 10,000 km throughout South Korea. The two companies have been working together successfully since 1998 and as a result, Dreamline already has thousands of ECI's platforms installed in its network.
"We had evaluated several other solutions before making a commitment to ECI's technology," said Chang-Ho Kim, CTO of Dreamline. "We found that ECI's optical solutions are by far the most reliable and scalable. ECI has the ability to meet the challenges of our current expansion and help us become an increasingly competitive provider of 3G services. We plan to consider ECI for even more orders in the near future."
ECI will provide its XDM-50 optical platform, which carries voice and data services over Ethernet, SDH/SONET, and CWDM.
"Dreamline has been a great partner to us and we are delighted that our XDM product is quickly becoming recognized as an ideal solution for the cellular backhaul market," said Aviel Tenenbaum, President of ECI Telecom's Asia Pacific Regional Business Unit.