BATM Advanced Communications Ld BATM upgrades Kenya education network
January 16 2019 - 1:00AM
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BATM Advanced Communications Ld
16 January 2019
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16 January 2019
BATM Advanced Communications Limited
("BATM" or the "Group")
BATM expands capacity of Kenya Education Network Trust network
with 100GE upgrade
Expanded carrier ethernet network capacity allows KENET to
improve service quality and support growing data traffic
demands
BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LSE: BVC), a leading
provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and
medical laboratory systems, announces that Telco Systems, a
wholly-owned high-end software development and design business
within the Group's Networking & Cyber division, has completed
an upgrade of the Carrier Ethernet network of Kenya Education
Network (KENET), the National Research and Education Network (NREN)
of Kenya, from 10GE to 100GE.
As the NREN of Kenya, KENET provides high-speed Internet access
and data centre services to member university campuses and research
facilities across the country and interconnectivity with other
NRENs around the world. KENET also provides shared cloud-based
services, including co-location of servers, dedicated virtual
servers for e-learning systems and video and web conferencing.
As announced in June 2016, the Group previously supplied KENET
with its 10GE Carrier Ethernet network. For this 100GE network
upgrade, Telco Systems delivered its T-Metro 8100 service
aggregation platform and cloud gateway, which offers significant
service scalability and carrier class resiliency with modular
options for future expansion capabilities. The T-Metro 8100 devices
are managed and orchestrated by Telco Systems' EdgeGenie
Orchestrator service provisioning management system, which the
Group also deployed with the original installation.
By upgrading its network capacity to 100GE, KENET has been able
to improve the quality of existing services, offer additional
advanced services and meet the growing bandwidth requirements of
its education and research institution customers and their
users.
"We have been working with Telco Systems for five years now and
we have developed trust and confidence in the company and its
technologies," stated Professor Meoli Kashorda, Executive Director
of KENET. "Telco Systems has played a strategic role in the
expansion of our network and the services from 1GE to 10GE and now
to 100GE and I am certain that the company will continue to do so
for many years to come."
"More and more service providers around the world are upgrading
their network capacities to 100GE in order to better serve their
customers and grow their businesses and we are proud to be
supporting KENET in this important move," said Ariel Efrati, CEO at
Telco Systems. "We are experiencing strong traction in the
education vertical and our T-Metro 8100 solution is well-positioned
to help network operators serving this market space, especially the
government E-Rate projects in the United States, to upgrade their
networks and improve the performance of their services."
Dr Zvi Marom, CEO of BATM, said: "We are pleased to have
delivered this network upgrade in Kenya, which will improve the IT
infrastructure of education institutions throughout the country.
Our Carrier Ethernet portfolio provides the foundation on which our
Networking business is built, and we continue to strengthen this
base by developing industry-leading solutions that we are providing
to clients worldwide."
Enquiries:
BATM Advanced Communications
Dr. Zvi Marom, Chief Executive
Officer +972 9866 2525
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Moti Nagar, Chief Financial Officer
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Luther Pendragon
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Harry Chathli, Claire Norbury +44 20 7618 9100
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