> Sri Lanka Telecom confirms AnaCise CSA

15 Sept 2007, Sri Lanka

In line with Sri Lanka Telecom's (SLT) objective to expand its broadband network to make ADSL available to other regions, in addition to current services in major cities, SLT has decided to purchase 50 units of AnaCise Convergent Service Analyzers (CSA) as the future-ready field tester for field engineers to ensure promised broadband services are delivered to its customers.

SLT currently posses a robust network which is capable of handling services based on IP technologies: voice, data and video and mobile through the applications of business, education medical care and entertainment. CSA ADSL2+ testers with IPTV, VoIP & Data functionalities will be the right tool for SLT to roll out the next SLT IPTV services that pioneers the country first IP based TV broadcasting service.

"AnaCise CSA takes the honor to be SLT's field tester supplier after detailed evaluation was executed among other players. Being a younger brand name in the Test & Measurement arena, CSA scored by a commanding lead against others to secure this opportunity. A heartfelt appreciation also extends to AnaCise's attentive support to make this a resounding success", said Mr. Dayan Karunatilleke of Techno Instruments (Pvt.) Ltd., authorized distributor of AnaCise in Sri Lanka.

 "We are delighted to supply CSA to SLT and we pledge to enhance our products lines further to assist and meet SLT's high level of quality assurance being the country's only wire line service providers to offer real-time TV broadcast programming, video-on-demand and other advanced services over broadband connections to televisions. CSA GigE module with Triple Play functionalities will also play a significant role in SLT near future introduction of infrastructure in the form of NGN [Next Generation Networks] using optical fibre backbone and broadband services such as IMS, IPTV etc", said Ben Lee of AnaCise Global Business Division.

About Sri Lanka Telecom:
 
Sri Lanka Telecom (www.slt.lk) is one of the country's most valuable blue chip companies with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 40 billion. Whilst NTT Communications Corporation of Japan owns a 35.2% stake in Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), 49.2% is owned by the Government of Sri Lanka and 15.3% is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. The company was also awarded an AAA (sri) rating by Fitch Ratings Lanka followed by a BB-international rating by Fitch International.

SLT Group has a customer base of over two million including multinational corporations, large and small corporate, retail and domestic customers. Today with NTT Communications of Japan as a strategic partner, SLT provides facilities and services: voice, data, video and mobile to its customers, which are unmatched in scope. These services range from domestic and international voice, advance data transmission services which include internet services on leased lines, broadband [on ADSL] and dial up, data circuits, frame relay solutions to IP services such as IP-VPN based on IP-MPLS technology, total corporate solutions of multiple services, satellite uplink services and mobile telephony through the fully owned subsidiary Mobitel.