ECI Telecom Ltd, and Hangzhou Communication Equipment Factory
(HCEF) of China announced the establishment of a joint venture
called Hangzhou ECI Telecom (HET). The new venture will
manufacture and market Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
equipment for the Chinese market. It will operate in Huangzhou,
which is the capital of the Zhejiang province. HCEF is the
largest state-owned communications equipment manufacturer in
China and a specialized manufacturer for China National Posts &
Telecommunications Industry Corp.
This move comes after ECI scored major successes in the China
SDH market, considered to be the largest SDH market in the world.
ECI Telecom is the only company that has received acceptance
certification from MPT and China Telecom (DGT) for the first
national backbone SDH project in China. ECI Telecom has
successfully commissioned a fiber optic chain deploying SDH Add
and Drop Multiplexer equipment extending from Wuhan to Nanjing.
Additionally, in Inner Mongolia, ECI Telecom equipment is
operating in one of the most complex installations worldwide in
terms of geographical coverage, challenging terrain and severe
environment. This installation carries live traffic over 4000 kms
using 622 Mbit/s managed, Add and Drop Multiplexer (ADM)
equipment throughout the Inner Mongolia province