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ECI Telecom Ltd , is a telecommunication equipment manufacturer based in Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
.

Established in 1961, ECI delivers a broad solution to converged telecom networks: Broadband
Broadband

The term broadband can have different meanings in different contexts. The term's meaning has undergone substantial shifts....
 Multi-service access gateways (MSAG), Service Edge Routers, BRAS, Optical transport, NGN Voice over IP
Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched Computer network....
 and Core IP
Internet protocol

Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
/MPLS
Mpls

MPLS or Mpls can refer to:* Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States* Multiprotocol Label Switching, a data-carrying mechanism in computer networking...
 routers. These converged next generation network solutions are provided to leading carriers and service providers of the world.

In the 1990s the company became very successful with a DCME product line which provides real-time compression of phone/voice, by employing various voice compression techniques, including using periods of silence to multiplex
Time-division multiplexing

Time-Division Multiplexing is a type of digital or Pulse-amplitude modulation multiplexing in which two or more signals or bit streams are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are physically taking turns on the channel....
 voice calls on fewer E1
E-carrier

In digital telecommunications, where a single physical wire pair can be used to carry many simultaneous voice conversations, worldwide standards have been created and deployed....
/T1
T-carrier

In telecommunications, T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexing telecommunications carrier systems originally developed by Bell Labs and used in North America, Communications in Japan, and Communications in South Korea....
 lines.

The company stumbled during the days of burst of the Tech bubble
Dot-com bubble

The "dot-com bubble" was a economic bubble covering roughly 1995?2001 during which stock markets in Western world saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new quaternary sector of industry and related fields....
 and the company has since struggled to regain its previous glory.






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ECI Telecom Ltd , is a telecommunication equipment manufacturer based in Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
.

Established in 1961, ECI delivers a broad solution to converged telecom networks: Broadband
Broadband

The term broadband can have different meanings in different contexts. The term's meaning has undergone substantial shifts....
 Multi-service access gateways (MSAG), Service Edge Routers, BRAS, Optical transport, NGN Voice over IP
Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched Computer network....
 and Core IP
Internet protocol

Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
/MPLS
Mpls

MPLS or Mpls can refer to:* Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States* Multiprotocol Label Switching, a data-carrying mechanism in computer networking...
 routers. These converged next generation network solutions are provided to leading carriers and service providers of the world.

In the 1990s the company became very successful with a DCME product line which provides real-time compression of phone/voice, by employing various voice compression techniques, including using periods of silence to multiplex
Time-division multiplexing

Time-Division Multiplexing is a type of digital or Pulse-amplitude modulation multiplexing in which two or more signals or bit streams are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are physically taking turns on the channel....
 voice calls on fewer E1
E-carrier

In digital telecommunications, where a single physical wire pair can be used to carry many simultaneous voice conversations, worldwide standards have been created and deployed....
/T1
T-carrier

In telecommunications, T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexing telecommunications carrier systems originally developed by Bell Labs and used in North America, Communications in Japan, and Communications in South Korea....
 lines.

The company stumbled during the days of burst of the Tech bubble
Dot-com bubble

The "dot-com bubble" was a economic bubble covering roughly 1995?2001 during which stock markets in Western world saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new quaternary sector of industry and related fields....
 and the company has since struggled to regain its previous glory. A nice recovery during the 2000s led to its acquisition for $1.2B in 2007.

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