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Telco Systems Acquires IP-DSLAM Solution Provider Critical Telecom Corp.

Telco Systems has acquired the assets of Critical Telecom Corp., a developer of broadband enabling platforms for IP-based access networks. Telco Systems provides carrier-class transport and access solutions for public and private IP and TDM networks.

The Critical GEmini is purpose-built for outside plants. It is an Ethernet remote DSLAM offering integrated GigE backhaul and a modular port scalability architecture. The GEmini leverages an existing copper infrastructure to deliver fiber-grade services at a low total cost of deployment.

The GEmini offers non-blocking ADSL2+, which enables applications like VoIP, triple-play services, IPTV (News - Alert) and high-speed Internet access. The product line is now part of Telco Systems and will be support from the company’s existing facility in Ottawa, Canada. Telco Systems’ suite of products offers solutions for Metro Ethernet Access Rings, residential and enterprise VoIP, FTTx, SONET,WiFi ( News - Alert) and T1 backhaul.

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http://voipservices.tmcnet.com/feature/articles/2737-telco-system...

Global Telco Edition 2 announces the Metrobillity deal

• Metrobility has been acquired by Telco Systems, we welcome the Metrobility team that joins Telco north at Billerica, Massachusetts.

• Time Warner Telecom expands its network with Telco Systems’ Purepacket access equipment. Golden-Lines launches Israel’s largest VoIP service. CPE s devices deployed exclusively by Telco Systems after rigorous field trials with several competitors.

• Telco Systems’ T5 Compact is the base for several IP metro rings with several carriers around the world. Among them are recent fullyoperational installations: Chang Bau Telecom (Taiwan), Rom Telecom (Romania)

• BATM CEO hosted a dinner for law enforcement leaders from US and Israel

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http://www.batmbg.com/download/global_telco_e2.pdf

BATM Snaps Up Metrobility

BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. has snapped up Ethernet access vendor Metrobility Optical Systems for just $6.85 million in cash, primarily as a way to expand into North and Latin America.

BATM, better known as Telco Systems (BATM) , already has metro Ethernet and Ethernet aggregation products in its portfolio. Buying Metrobility adds Ethernet access capabilities to its arsenal.

And it seems to be getting a lot for its money. Metrobility, which claims to have more than 50 customers, generated revenues of $11.8 million for a pre-tax loss of $1.2 million in 2005. BATM reckons that, once integrated, Metrobility will make a "positive contribution" to its business, which made a small operating profit of $1.4 million from revenues of $56.5 million in 2005.

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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=97693

Access211N wins 2006 Editors Choice Award from Service Provider Weekly

There are many products on the market today that allow you integrate VoIP (Voice over IP) technology with existing analog phone systems however many of these products have a pretty steep price tag attached to them. Telco Systems has developed a small device that gives small business home office (SOHO) locations with an affordable solution to this type of product and the Access211N wins our Editor's Choice Award for price and functionality.

There are many functions that are provided by the Acess211N and this includes the device's router capabilities. An incoming WAN port connects with your cable or DSL service provider and a single 10/100Base-T Ethernet port can be used to connect directly with a PC or with a switch product. There are two FXS ports to connect with local telephone lines from your phone company and the device provides the technology of translating data between digital and analog signals that is needed for this type of product.

The article can be found on page 39 of the magazine.

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http://www.spweekly.com/current/cissue.pdf

BATM's Secret Slips Out

In an industry increasingly replete with news of multimillion dollar deals with unnamed customers and partners, it's nice to see some companies drop the odd hint about the identity of their secret bedfellows.
BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. (London: BVC - message board), parent of Ethernet equipment vendor Telco Systems (BATM) did the honors today, albeit unwittingly. It issued a press release announcing an OEM deal with "a distinguished and very professional global supplier". (See BATM Signs OEM).

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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=91214&f_src=light...

BATM Signs OEM

BATM Advanced Communications (LSE: BVC - message board), a leading designer of broadband data and telecoms systems, announces the signing of an OEM agreement with a new global network supplier.
Under the agreement BATM will commence delivering advanced access equipment which will be offered by its new customer worldwide, during the latter part of the current year.

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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=91184

Techmark movers: BATM continues slide

BATM Advanced continued its recent slide downwards despite announcing on Tuesday that it received first purchase orders with a new leading international telecom supplier.

The group said the initial value of the contract is approximately worth $2m, with delivery starting immediately and ending before the end of 2006. It added that there was scope and scale for the contract to expand significantly.

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http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id=627...

Telco Systems will participate in the MPLS World Congress

Telco Systems (BATM) will participate in the upcoming this week MPLS Wolrd Congress in Paris, France. 15 vendors featuring more than 30 devices will demonstrate interoperability, resiliency, multicast and Quality of Service (QoS) assured MPLS network services to support emerging triple-play and business applications. The test event was organized by the European Advanced Networking Test Center in Berlin, Germany (EANTC) with support from the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) and endorsed by the MFA Forum. Other participants, of which four are taking part for the first time, include Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Huawei Technologies, Ixia, Lucent Technologies, MRV Communications, Nortel, RAD Data Communications, Riverstone Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs and Tpack.

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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/07/1350535.htm

Telco Systems grants six scholarships and two network switches to NBU

In January 2006 Telco Systems - Bulgaria donated two T5 Compact 24T Ethernet Switches for educational purposes to the New Bulgarian University. In addition to the network equipment, Telco Systems granted six scholarships for university students who desire to advance in networking. Three of the scholarships were awarded for bachelor degrees and the other three were awarded for master degrees. Now and in the future, Telco Systems relies on expanding its staff with young specialists graduating from NBU. Telco Systems is planning to further collaborate with the New Bulgarian University by creating a "Telco" Networking Lab and providing the equipment for it.

Metro Ethernet Forum Certifies Telco Systems' T-Metro Ethernet Platform as MEF 9 Compliant

FOXBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Telco Systems, a provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for public and private IP and TDM networks, today announced that its T-Metro Metro Ethernet access platform has been certified MEF 9 compliant by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). The test was designed to streamline conformance testing for network operators seeking reliable Ethernet services for their user communities, and ensures 99.999 percent reliability.
"I am pleased that Telco Systems has achieved the Carrier Ethernet Certification to MEF 9," said Nan Chen, president of MEF. "The continued momentum of the MEF Certification Program is a testimony of rapid adoption of Carrier Ethernet worldwide."

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060110/20060110005637.html?.v=1

Telco Systems Gives Access211 VoIP Media Gateway a Facelift

FOXBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2006--Telco Systems, a provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for public and private IP and TDM networks, today announced a new sleek contemporary design for its Access211 voice over IP (VoIP) media gateway, which enables service providers to offer their residential and small home office (SOHO) customers with a high-quality VoIP service using traditional analog telephones and fax machines. Nearly half the size of its predecessor, the new Access211N creates more desktop real estate and reduces associated networking expenses.
Access211N is a next-generation SIP-based VoIP gateway for broadband Internet telephone service. Through integrated routing capabilities, unique traffic shaping, and its implementation of advanced quality of service (QoS) standards, service providers and the end user enjoy superior voice quality and reduced cost since the need for an external router is eliminated.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060123/20060123005065.html?.v=1

Our motto is "To make ideas possible"

An Info Week interview with Dr. Zvi Marom.

Dr. Zvi Marom is the founder and CEO of BATM Advanced Communications. Dr. Marom started the company in 1992 as a bootstrap and brought it to a world-class company, exporting nearly 100M$ a year.
Dr. Zvi Marom holds Degrees in Engineering and Medicine.
Prior to the establishing of BATM Dr. Marom was the head of the Electrical faculty of Israeli Open University and senior consultant to several industrial and academic institutes. Zvi Marom graduated with excellence from the Naval Academy and served in combat command posts.
In 2001 Dr. Marom won the “Techmark Personality of the Year” award from the London Stock Exchange.
Under his leadership BATM won “Best Technology Company in Europe for 2000, as well as several other world renowned awards.

Dr. Marom, would you present the activities of your company ?
BATM Advanced Communicatins is the mother company of Telco Systems in the USA. Company is public, trading in the main list in the London stock exchange. The company is specialized in telecom application devices in the access for modern IP networks and integration for legacy networks to moderner IP. We work with Nokia, Alcatel, Siemens, SBC, British telecom, Deutsche telecom, and many others company in the telecom area. We have 500 employees in 11 countries like USA, Germany, Hong-Kong, East Europe etc.
We are international company – in Bulgaria we started nearly 6 years ago and now have 60 people staff. Here we started a program about 2 years ago for young people that have the capability and the willingness to learn. We train them to take them after the university. Now after 5 years we have started to work not only in technical work, but also in leadership, like ability to run projects, ability to train others. We are expanding operation with several universities in here, with The New Bulgarian University for example, and our intention is also to get involved as much as we can, to increase this we employee here several intensive people and intend to increase the number. We need people, that know well how, that want to succeed, see the future in professional computing, networking, environments. We are the only one in Bulgaria, that we give this kind of opportunity and this kind of really know-how. And this kind of demands also, in return we give lot of opportunities.

Can you define a motto of your company?
We think that we are a top professionals in modern communications. We are bunch of scientists and engineers. We’ve been recognized by guys like Nokia. We have a basic simple philosophy, which drives the strategy of the company and this is the reason why will never been able to be crushed by the really big boys.
If you have to define people, you can define them in what you see and in what you talk about. If we can duplicate this with tehnology and science and give this ability, it would change everything that we know in all that we call modern. All the social-ecomomic consepts are going to change so hudge knowledge based. We start to see with the internet revolution. Communication possibilities that look imaginary only fifteen years ago.
And with the next revolution, which is the broadband revolution, the ability to communicate changes everything – it will affect travel, it will affect governments, it will affect media. People become mobile. I think that if we can deliver this microcosmos in a kind of nearly intact way, it takes time we are doing a lot of improvements, then we will be a part of this enormous social-economical world change. The fact is that the devices we are building for the all big boys are devices that rarely other people can do it. So basically we are kind of enablers on their, I would call it - scientific technological side. And this is why we need all the time a combination between people that are in the experience and people that are in the 20s, that have a lot of inovative young ideas. And this is why I am all the time thinking and doing a lot of cooperation with some of the universities worldwide.
So the motto of the company is “to enable”. To make things possible, to make ideas possible.

Which is the contract of the company, that you appreciate most?
Several pretty interesting contracts. I like the cooperation with Nokia. Finland is a small country like Israel, like Bulgaria. People are modest, they learn things very, very well, they look in depth. When we do cooperation with Nokia it’s not just giving a kind of advanced equipment. It’s many time brain storming. I can say that hudge company like Nokia listen to us very carefull in many cases. For our company the result was to a status worldwide supply of the infrastructure of the networks. We enjoy to work with them, we see that the way of behaving and the philosophy are quite similar to us.
We will introduce some revolutionary technology together with Nokia just recently that we didn't even bother to publish yet. You can say first in Bulgaria.

Your expectations for the development of the communication market?
Well, communication market will have enermous boom in my opinion, in the next 5 years worldwide. First in big developing countries like China, India. At the very same time at the most advanced market in the world like the US. All countries will modernize the communication. One, broadband is replacing narrowband. Now more and more people add broadband to their homes, offices. Few years ago people used to have only telephone. Now the more bands that you have, the more applications that you use, the more applications that you use – the more bands that you use, the more bands that you use – the more equipment, software, the carrier is to buy in order to support its services. The reason number two is the Internet, which means communication. And last but not least is the mobile revolution. This device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has inside camera, sometimes GPS and so on. When you send pictures or small video models on this device basically you have a situation that the demands from the network a fantastic. Because all of a sudden million small video movies are coming together with millions of telephone calls and together with a lot of Internet quetions. The demand from the network will explode. And this will make the demand for network and devices as well.

Tell us about your plans for future development?
We have some very ambitious plans. One type of plans is technological, scientific-technological and the second type of plans is application-based. The technological side we cooperate with some companies - with the most advanced semiconductor manifacturers in order to enable in technical way enough computing and networking power to do applications that today is nearly impossible in the network. So this is an effort that we will take and we will start to see fruits maybe in the beginning of 2008. But it is very advanced technical capabilities that basically will enable this things. We are not aware of any other company in the world that is doing similar things.
On application side – we introduced a very nice application today together with some people that work together with Skype and we started an operation that we call Kish-Kish. It is in a language that doesn't exist any more, it is called Arameic and it means to talk a lot, to make a lot of noise. If you would go to the website of Kish-kish, which is relatively very young, it enables you a lot of things from Skype that normally are services that you get from the normal telephone company. Like answering machine, like using Skype on your mobile, all kind of things. Basically it saves you money and gives you lots of fun. We are going to expand this and already we have several customers, it is very new stuff, we have just introduced it less than two months ago. But it seems that a lot of people that belong to the Skype community like it. So go to the Kish-kish and look at it. So we think that it is our experiment to take our knowledge on the technology side to the application side.

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BATM Rises On Major Deal

Ethernet and VOIP equipment vendor BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. (London: BVC - message board) saw its valuation rise by 14 percent today following news of a major deal for its T6Pro family of ATCA-based Ethernet switches. (See BATM Wins Mystery 'Major Contract'.)

BATM, best known for its telecom business Telco Systems (BATM), announced a major supply deal with "one of the world’s leading telecom suppliers," though it didn't name the company. "The new contract will greatly strengthen our strategic ties with an extremely important customer," the company added in its official release.

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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=84745&WT.svl=news...

Telco Systems Appoints Tom Dwyer to Head Company Sales Team

Telco Systems, a provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for public and private IP and TDM networks headquartered in Foxboro, Massachusetts, today at the FTTH Conference & Expo (booth 122) here announced the appointment of Tom Dwyer, a communications industry veteran with more than 25 years experience, to head up the company's sales force.

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Dwyer is responsible for Telco Systems' direct sales force, inside sales operation and distribution channels for sales to Regional Bell Operating Companies, traditional long distance carriers, CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers), ILECs (Independent Local Exchange Carriers), IXCs (Interexchange Carriers), cable companies, next-generation carriers, VoIP, OEM and other service providers.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051003/35801.html?.v=1

Telco Systems Gives Access201 VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter ''Extreme Makeover'' to Add New Features, New Look to Address New Opportunities

Telco Systems today announced an "extreme makeover" for its Access201 VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) to give it a new look and new features to meet new market opportunities.

The new Access201 was redesigned to add new features to provide VoIP service providers with a quality, cost-effective ATA for use with newer cable and DSL modems that are now coming to market with integrated routing capabilities and to help enable service providers to offer an attractively priced basic VoIP offering. Another new key capability for the new Access201 allows it to be used with traditional payphones so they can take advantage of VoIP service over a broadband Internet connection.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050919/195169.html?.v=1

Telco Systems to Introduce VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter at VON

Irit Gillath, Telco Systems' Vice President of IP Product Line Management, will be speaking at VON on Monday, Sept. 19 at 10:45 a.m. on the "Lessons in Gateway Development and Deployments" panel, which is part of the show's "Architecting the VoIP Network" series of educational programs.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050916/165358.html?.v=1

Telco Rides T-Metro

Telco Systems today introduced the T-Metro, the first in a series of MPLS-based carrier-class multiservice metro Ethernet access platforms for carriers and service providers. The T-Metro delivers a wide range of managed metro Ethernet services, a variety of Virtual Private Network (VPN) services and legacy TDM services from core networks to customers' premises.

The T-Metro was developed to enable ILECs, CLECs, Cable providers, Cellular and emerging carriers to reduce operational costs and increase revenue streams through new and enhanced services.

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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=80393

Telco Systems delves into MPLS

Telco Systems today launched its first of what is expected to be a series of MPLS devices.

The T-Metro is meant to act as something of a gap filler for both carriers’ services as well as the lineup of Telco System products. Intended to provide an array of managed metro Ethernet services, the T-Metro also is brings MPLS out of the core network.

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http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/TelcoSystems_MPLS_metro_0912...

Telco Systems Ships Metro Ethernet Platform

Telco Systems, Foxboro, Mass., today introduced the T-Metro, which the company said is the first in a series of MPLS-based, carrier-class multiservice metro Ethernet access platforms for carriers and service providers.

With the T-Metro, cable companies, wireless carriers and competitive local exchange carriers will be able offer a wide range of services through their own network that otherwise would only be available by leasing the services from Regional Bell Companies and reselling them to their own customers, according to David Lee, Telco’s vice president of marketing and services.

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http://www.advancedippipeline.com/news/170702249;jsessionid=MXZK1...

Telco Systems Looks to the Past, Future with T-Metro

Telco Systems, best known for its success in the TDM channel bank and IAD equipment space, today took another step into the next-generation networking world with the introduction of the T-Metro. This MPLS-based multiservice metro access platform can support both legacy T1 applications as well as new, IP-based services, allowing carriers to leverage existing infrastructure while upgrading their bandwidth and enabling new services.

“Today [service providers] may be delivering T1 services off of this box, but tomorrow they can switch interfaces on the box and deliver 100BaseFx or gigabit Ethernet,” says Dave Lee vice president of marketing and services. T-Metro supports both copper and fiber-based fast Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet as well as T1/E1 circuit emulation interfaces.

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http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/59h12101031.html

Telco Systems Introduces Multi-Service Metro Ethernet Access Platform

Telco Systems introduced its T-Metro MPLS-based multiservice metro Ethernet access platform. The modular T-Metro delivers a wide range of managed metro Ethernet services, a variety of VPN services and legacy TDM services from core networks to customers' premises. The T-Metro acts as either an edge device that interconnects with both a traditional PSTN TDM circuit-switched network and IP/MPLS core network or as an integral part of the MPLS network. It supports a wide variety of interfaces that include both copper and fiber-based fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet as well as T1/E1 Circuit Emulation interfaces.

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http://www.convergedigest.com/searchdisplay.asp?ID=15922&SearchWo...

Telco Systems Acquires Integral Access

Telco Systems, a provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for IP and TDM networks, today announced the acquisition of Integral Access, the developer of the carrier-class PurePacket IP based multi-service access platform for delivery of converged voice and data. The acquisition will enable Telco Systems to make further inroads with next generation network carriers, CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers), and alternative service providers.

With the PurePacket platform, Telco Systems can also offer an IP managed network migration solution for TDM-based circuit-switched carriers. PurePacket compliments Telco Systems' existing IP product line, which includes solutions for Metro Ethernet Access Rings, Residential and enterprise VoIP, FTTx and WiFi backhaul.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050727/275937.html?.v=1