Tilgin receives IP home gateway order from major Middle East operator for new luxurious housing area
Stockholm, Sweden, 22 February 2008: Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for triple play, next-generation broadband and IMS-based services, today announced a 1.5 MUSD order from a leading Middle East operator for Tilgin’s IP home gateway Vood 182 for fiber access to be deployed in a new luxurious housing area in the Middle East.
Tilgin is the operator’s preferred supplier to deliver IP home gateways and the management solution VCM for its leading FTTH based triple play offering. The order is intended for deployment in a new luxurious housing area, featuring VoIP, IP-TV and high speed Internet access.
The Middle East with the expansive gulf states in the forefront have during the past years built one of the world’s most modern communications systems with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or fiber-to-the-curb (FFTC) infrastructure. Tilgin’s client is a leading full-service provider and operator in the United Arab Emirates region and provides both residential and business users with a wide range of IP-based services. In line with the constant expansion in the region, this leading operator is focusing on delivering innovative and high quality services to high demanding business and residential users. Tilgin’s high quality products are customized to among other things meet the special environmental conditions of the region.
“This leading Middle East operator has very high technology and quality requirements on products and suppliers, says Ola Berglund, CEO at Tilgin. “We are therefore very proud to be their preferred supplier of fiber and ethernet gateways for triple play services. Our order confirms Tilgin’s technology leadership and status as a quality supplier of CPE solutions. The operator’s triple play offering is also an excellent reference deployment for operators in the Middle East and all other markets”.
Tilgin’s comprehensive portfolio of IP home gateways and remote management offer service providers a powerful CPE solution for deploying next generation broadband. Tilgin gateways are intelligent, multi-service components in a fully operator-managed end-to-end solution. They are designed to be an integrated component in a service provider’s network, offering zero-touch auto-provisioning, remote management and complete control for the service provider. Appreciated as the intelligent gateway into the home for all IP communications, Tilgin gateways help service providers to evolve their portfolio of Triple Play services beyond Voice over IP and high-speed Internet access.
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