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ECI Telecom Enhances Its Multi-Layer Network Management System for Optical, Ethernet and SONET/SDH

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 06:00 CST

ECI Telecom (NASDAQ: ECIL) today 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.

"With the enhanced LightSoft V3, ECI is making a leap in optical network management capabilities," said Eyal Shaked, Executive Vice President and General Manager of ECI Telecom's Optical Networks Division. "By supporting "SDH-like" functionalities in the optical layer, LightSoft V3 simplifies the provisioning and day-to-day monitoring of optical services and makes such information as wavelength utilization and channel availability easily accessible to the network operator."

LightSoft V3 support of a Northbound interface allows for performance monitoring, provisioning, maintenance and integration into standard market-leading operation support systems (OSS). In addition, the highly-scalable LightSoft V3 supports fifty concurrent users, while the system works in high availability clusters and manages thousands of network elements and hundreds of thousands of network paths. LightSoft can also manage other vendors' element management systems (EMS).

Optimized for ECI's XDM® optical and MSPP platform, LightSoft provides full control over the entire network, limiting the amount of necessary deployed systems. Other solutions in the market are limited in that they manage EMS and require a separate system for each type of network like SDH, Optical or Ethernet.

LightSoft Version 3.0 will be commercially available in early 2007.

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, 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.

Source: Business Wire

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