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ITI and Tejas Networks to partner for Next-generation SDH Equipment to address the Optical transmission market
Bangalore, India, June 15, 2004 : Tejas Networks India Ltd., a leader in next-generation SDH products announced today that it has signed a technical collaboration agreement with ITI Limited for its TJ100 series of Next-generation SDH products for STM-1, STM-4 and STM-16 capacity.
ITI is India’s premier telecom equipment manufacturing company, which pioneered the growth of telecommunications in India for more than five decades. Having contributed to over 70% of the existing Indian network, the state-owned company offers a complete range of telecom products covering the whole spectrum of switching, transmission, access and subscriber premises equipment.
“For our next-generation SDH product range, we were looking for a technology partner who has the latest cost effective solutions. After careful evaluation of multiple global companies, we chose to partner with Tejas Networks India Ltd., who have done a commendable job in designing and developing leading edge next-generation SDH products”, said CMD, ITI, Shri Y.K. Pandey. “We expect that Tejas’ strength in R&D will complement our manufacturing and marketing strengths to create a winning combination”.
India is one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world. As the tele-density increases from the current level of 6 to 10 (per hundred) in the next few years, there will be tremendous demand to expand the optical networks forming the foundation of all telecommunications services. Globally, Next-generation SDH is the technology of choice for building these next generation optical networks, which seamlessly carry voice, data, and video traffic simultaneously.
With this partnership, Tejas dramatically expands its coverage of the Indian optical market. “We are very excited that ITI selected us to be their partner, ahead of other leading global players. The significant successes we have achieved in the Indian as well as international markets, confirms our strategy of developing technically advanced, but cost-effective products that provide the maximum value to our customers”, said Sanjay Nayak, Co-founder & CEO, Tejas Networks.
Tejas TJ100 is a family of multi-service products that enable customers to build next generation SDH/SONET networks that can service voice, video and data applications. Traditional voice applications are serviced through E1/E3 interfaces while data applications can be serviced by rate-controllable 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces. Intelligent Network management capabilities, such as automatic topology discovery and point-and-click provisioning are enabled by advanced software including Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) optical signaling code running on every TJ100 product.
About Tejas Networks
Tejas Networks is the first Indian telecom product company, to develop next generation SDH/SONET products that enable telecom carriers to converge traditional voice-based networks with the new data-dominated networks, in a cost-effective way. Tejas has over 15 customers running live traffic in networks in carrier-class networks in India as well as internationally.
Visit Tejas Networks at http://www.tejasnetworks.com/
About ITI Limited
Set up in 1948, Bangalore-based ITI Limited is India’s first Public Sector Undertaking. It has grown into the country’s largest telecom company with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities spread across six locations, three inhouse R&D Centres and extensive marketing/service outlets. Besides the latest telecom solutions and customized support to a variety of businesses, ITI has a dedicated Network Systems Unit for carrying out installation and commissioning of equipment and for undertaking turnkey jobs as well as providing value added services.
Visit ITI at www.itilimited-india.com
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