SUCCESS STORIES

Arcor

Arcor AG & Co. is the leading alternative fixed-line carrier in Germany with 2.6 million DSL lines. Arcor has an advanced fixed network in Germany, which includes more than 33,000 km of optical fibre cabling, 2,600 local exchanges, providing approximately 60% population coverage in more than 800 cities and towns. Since May 2008 Arcor is fully owned by Vodafone, the world's leading international mobile communications group.

Italtel Solution

The Italtel network solution selected by Arcor, following a long evaluation and testing phase at customer premises, is based on the Italtel NGN architecture, with i-SSW (Italtel iMSS based Softswitch solution) and i-UDB (Italtel Universal Data Base) platforms.

In particular Italtel, under the terms of the agreement, will provide Arcor with both a Next Generation Networks (NGN) Class 4 VoIP solution, to expand the current transit network, and a Next Generation Networks Class 5 VoIP solution to develop new IP telephony and multimedia services for residential and business customers.

Press Release: 6 Sept 2006