NOVEMBER 1, 2006 -- RAD Data Communications (search for RAD Datacommunications) today announced that it has supplied Bezeq, Israel's incumbent telecommunications operator, with thousands of customer premises devices for the carrier's Ethernet-over-SDH service. The RAD customer premises devices already have been installed in Bezeq's network to enable enterprise access of up to 2 Mbits/sec over copper and surfing at bandwidths between 4 Mbits/sec and 155 Mbits/sec over fiber.
Bezeq's Ethernet-over-SDH customers include Israel's largest banks, Internet service providers, and governmental organizations and institutions.
Ethernet over SDH enables branch offices at different physical locations to be connected to their headquarters over the same communications network and, in so doing, build a private communications network over Bezeq's public network.
"RAD's products enable operators to reduce the amount of equipment required in central offices and points-of-presence by concentrating the traffic between branch offices and the central switch located at the customer premises," explains Amir Karo, associate vice president of product development and business development at RAD Data Communications. "An additional important point, moreover, is [the] remote management of these products from a central site, meaning that remote diagnostics, alarm monitoring, statistics collection, new configuration downloads, and even changes in the service speed can be carried out without having to send a technician," he adds.
Samuel Matsevich, RAD's carrier sales manager in Israel says his company understands the specific needs of the Israeli market. "The growing number of service providers in the country, on the one hand, and the wide variety of communications equipment from various manufacturers on the other have caused the market to become very competitive, so the name of the game is service," he reports. "At a time like this, quick response to the needs of the customer and quick adaptation of products constitute RAD's advantage and suitability over its competitors, and we are proud of that capability."
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