Bharti Airtel Limited, one of India’s private sector telecommunications service providers, recently signed a one-year optical network expansion agreement with ECI Telecom Ltd. (News - Alert), a provider of communications platforms to global carriers and service providers. The agreement binds ECI to supply equipment supporting Bharti’s countrywide optical network expansion plans.

As per the agreement, ECI will provide sophisticated XDM Converged Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) to fuel Bharti’s network expansion plans.

 

Bharti Airtel is a dominant telecommunications services provider in the Indian telecom market featuring an esteemed list of global service providers, serving more than 40 million subscribers within a single-country.

 

In order to support its growth and diversification plans, the company chose ECI’s optical solutions over other providers. Technological aid from ECI will also enable the company to expand its existing customer base and service offerings, such as, broadband data, voice and leased lines.

Optical solutions from ECI will enhance Bharti Airtel’s network capacity from 2.5G to 10G. It will facilitate Metro DWDM, which in turn will expand the existing network beyond its current footprint. The expansion will also help Airtel provide mobile access to several remote areas in the Indian subcontinent for the first time.

Rajan Swaroop, Executive Director, Airtel Enterprise Services-Carrier, said in a statement, “At Airtel it is our constant endeavor to provide reliable, robust and ubiquitous connectivity solutions. To help deliver this promise to our customers, we have chosen to partner with ECI, with whom we’ve had a successful association since 1999.”

 

“The best-in-class equipment, reliability and superior support that we receive from ECI are a perfect match to the world-class connectivity solutions and quality-of-service that Bharti Airtel delivers to its customers. This relationship reinforces our commitment to invest in state of the art technologies for providing scalable and future proof solutions to our customers,” Swaroop added.