Cablecolor Selects Orckit-Corrigent Packet Transport Network Solutions in Honduras
December 14 2011 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Orckit-Corrigent Ltd. (NasdaqGM:ORCT), a leading Packet
Transport Network (PTN) vendor and TELSOL, a leading
telecommunication group in Central America, today announced that
Cable Color, a leading telecommunication service provider in
Honduras, has selected Orckit-Corrigent’s IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP based
CM-4000 PTN switches and the accompanying CM-View network
management system to introduce a networking environment for
broadband and enterprise VPN services.
"Cable Color continues to operate a highly advanced network
using state-of-the-art technologies to provide a wide range of
broadband services to our customers," said Mr. Cesar Rosenthal -
CEO of Cable Color. "Orckit-Corrigent's solutions aggregate DSLAMs
and transport 10Gbit broadband with advanced traffic management and
quality of service technologies to meet our specific technical and
economical requirements. This investment is another clear evidence
for our: More than a Cable company, providing an access to the
world vision.”
Orckit-Corrigent’s CM-4000 portfolio is a series of small,
medium and large capacity Packet Transport Network switches that
offer any combination of Ethernet, SDH and PDH services to
facilitate migration towards a unified packet network. The products
are based on dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, packet synchronization
and circuit emulation technologies, and are designed to scale up
the delivery of residential, business and mobile backhauling
services in next-generation telecom infrastructure networks.
"Orckit-Corrigent is pleased to include Cable Color in our
growing global customer base,” said Mr. Izhak Tamir, Co-Founder and
President of Orckit Communications. “This selection highlights the
effectiveness of our solution for next-generation networks. We
announced the first deployment of CM-4000 products about two years
ago and have since then significantly increased our presence and
customer base in Central and Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, and
Europe, with the addition of both Tier-1 and Tier-2 service
providers."
About Cable Color: More than a Cable Company , an access to
the world
Cable Color began operations in the city of Tegucigalpa. Due to
rapid growth and acceptance of our customers, to date we operate in
several cities of the country including: Valle de Angeles, Santa
Lucia, Comayagua, Siguatepeque, Choloma, Omoa, Puerto Cortes,
Villanueva, San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copan, La Ceiba and we
continue to expand as the company expanded coverage and national
growth.
We were the first company to transmit cable television through a
fiber optic network in Honduras, the first private fiber optic
cables running back to Puerto Cortes Tegucigalpa and now continue
to work to provide our customers with innovative services to both
communication and entertainment, including cable TV, internet,
telephony, data transport and similar ones with the highest levels
of quality, always at the forefront of technology and a continued
focus on excellence in customer service and thus be true to our
motto of being more than one cable company, we access to the
world!
With a team of tireless and committed to development, and impose
new challenges on a daily basis for the benefit of our users we are
optimistic towards the new era of globalization.
Winning international recognition as Arroba Gold Bizz awards for
quality and satisfied all of our subscribers primarily in cities
around the country are those who attest to the commitment, quality
and prestige of a national company such as Cable Color.
About TELSOL
TELSOL is one of the Central America’s largest
telecommunications groups. The group operates subsidiaries in
Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, primarily in Honduras,
Central America. It currently employs more than 30 employees around
the Central America region and is a supplier of products and
services in the fields of deployment and maintenance of cellular,
alternative Carriers, ISP, VoIP Providers, Enterprises and wireless
communications infrastructures, since 2010.
About Orckit Communications Ltd.
Orckit facilitates telecommunication providers' delivery of high
capacity broadband residential, business and mobile services over
wireline or wireless networks with its Orckit-Corrigent family of
products. With 20 years of field experience with Tier-1 customers
located around the world and sound leadership, Orckit has a firm
foothold in the ever-developing world of telecommunication.
Orckit-Corrigent's product portfolio includes Packet Transport
Network (PTN) switches - an MPLS and MPLS-TP dual stack based
portfolio enabling advanced packet as well as legacy services over
packet networks with a wide set of transport features.
Orckit-Corrigent markets its products directly and indirectly
through strategic alliances, as well as distribution and reseller
partners worldwide. Orckit was founded in 1990 and went public in
1996. The company is active in APAC, Western and Eastern Europe,
and America.
For more information, please visit www.orckit.com. Follow Orckit
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