ECI Telecom details its cell-site gateway for 5G
Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 3:58PM ECI Telecom has unveiled its cell-site router for 5G that also supports existing 3G and 4G wireless standards.
“You need to support the existing one or two generations of cellular networks,” says Jimmy Mizrahi, ECI’s executive vice president and head of global portfolio.
Jimmy MizrahiThe platform, the NPT 1022 cell-site router, is the first of several platforms that ECI will launch for 5G as it upgrades and expands its Neptune product line.
“The 1022 is part of a new line of products covering all layers of the network, starting at the cell site and going to aggregation and the metro core,” says Ezra Yehezkel, product line manager, packet transport solutions at ECI.
The Neptune portfolio will include a high-capacity packet-processing platform that can scale to 16 terabits.
