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Press Release
Ringgold Telephone Company Selects ECI
Telecom's Multi-Service Edge Router for Residential IPTV
Cost-effective single platform replaces
other vendors' equipment to support advanced carrier packet services
Pittsburgh, PA - November 8, 2005 - ECI
Telecom (NASDAQ: ECIL) today announced that Ringgold Telephone
Company (RTC), a local exchange service provider in Georgia, USA,
has selected ECI Telecom's ST-200 multiservice edge router
to support its interactive entertainment and IPTV video services
over DSL. Ringgold selected ECI's ST-200 multiservice edge router
for its flexibility to add new services such as VoIP, for its
support of a variety of Ethernet densities and for its scalability.
ECI's ST-200 is the first multi-service edge router built specifically
for carrier networks combining Internet-class routing, guaranteed
bandwidth delivery and integrated service management to enable
profitable delivery of broadband, frame relay, Ethernet and IP-based
services. The ST-200 Service Edge Router is also the only edge
router that supports all carrier packet services in a single platform.
This level of flexibility is critical to carriers, such as Ringgold,
seeking to broaden their service portfolio and to scale services
while reducing infrastructure costs.
"We selected ECI Telecom's edge router to reduce costs and
enhance our network in this competitive marketplace, enabling
us to offer our customers interactive entertainment, such as IPTV,
along with new IP-based services like VoIP," said Phil Erli,
Executive Vice President of Ringgold Telephone Company. "We
also required a network infrastructure that guaranteed wire-speed
performance, QoS, and low-latency. ECI's ST-200 multi-service
edge router makes this possible."
Replacing multiple vendors' equipment in the
Ringgold network, ECI's ST-200 platform was added and configured
with a 16-port Gigabit Ethernet card and OC-12 cards. The ST-200
includes the easy-to-use LPS provisioning and management
system for carrier networks.
"Ringgold's deployment of the ST-series edge router for IPTV
underscores our ability to provide a robust solution to help service
providers meet the increasing demands of their customers,"
said Steve Vogelsang, Vice President of Marketing of the Data
Networking Division at ECI Telecom. "Supported by ECI's solution,
Ringgold has created a service-rich infrastructure that scales
to increased capacity without requiring a commensurate increase
in capital and operating expense."
About Ringgold Telephone Company
Established in 1912 and serving Catoosa County, Georgia, Ringgold
Telephone Company is a 14,300-access line local exchange service
provider. Ringgold delivers the most modern, up-to-date services
in the region. In addition to IPTV, Ringgold offers DSL, Internet
access, long distance and local telephone service. Ringgold Telephone
Company looks forward to the future, concentrates on the present
and takes pride in its rich heritage. More information is available
www.rtctel.com/
About ECI Telecom
ECI provides advanced telecommunications solutions to leading
carriers and service providers worldwide. By translating a deep
understanding of their needs into innovative, technologically
advanced solutions, ECI enables its customers to increase the
value of the infrastructure of their networks and reduce operating
expenses. ECI's platforms provide carriers and service providers
with carrier-grade solutions for easily introducing new revenue-generating
services.
ECI provides innovative IP service delivery solutions to the converged
telecom networks encompassing broadband access gateways, service
edge routers, optical transport, core IP/MPLS routers, NGN VoIP
and multimedia applications and services. ECI maintains a global
sales, marketing and customer support network, as well as a host
of strategic channel relationships worldwide.
Certain statements contained in this release
may contain forward-looking information with respect to plans,
projections or future performance of the Company. By their nature,
forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties
including, but not limited to, product and market acceptance risks,
the impact of competitive pricing, product development, commercialization
and technological difficulties and other risks detailed in the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investor Relations:
Jay Kalish,VP Investor Relations, ECI Telecom, Tel: International
access code +972-3-926-6255
jay.kalish@ecitele.com
Media Relations:
Karen Gershon, Corporate Communications, ECI Telecom, Tel:
International access code +972-3-926-8341
karen.gershon@ecitele.com
Kimberly Wheeler, Public Relations Manager,
Ringgold Telephone Company, Tel: 706-965-1237, kwheeler@rtctel.com
Fran Bosecker, PR@vantage, Tel: +1-212-532-5740
fbosecker@pr-vantage.com
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