PETAH TIKVA, Israel -- ECI Telecom (NASDAQ: ECIL) today introduced its ShadeTree™ Management Suite (ShadeTree MS), giving broadband service providers the ability to easily deploy both residential and business services with a minimum of operational overhead. A powerful, open service provisioning and policy management system, ShadeTree MS reduces the time and costs associated with deploying both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs and on-demand, triple play services. By offering subscriber self-management, automating the configuration of network elements, simplifying service definition, and accelerating new service deployment, ShadeTree MS allows carriers to lower the costs of adding new services to their portfolios.

As providers transition from delivering static business services to dynamic residential services, they need management capabilities that allow them to easily create new service bundles as well as respond quickly to service changes requested by customers. ShadeTree MS provides these capabilities in a non-intrusive, modular package.

"Network operators are transforming their networks so they can provide access-agnostic, on-demand, and personalized services. This transformation is being achieved by developing advanced subscriber management systems that incorporate presence and industry standard interfaces, connecting network elements to a broad service infrastructure ecosystem, enabling ease of VPN management, and providing the same subscriber management capabilities on Ethernet networks that are currently available on today's ATM-based DSL networks," said Mark Seery, VP of IP Service Infrastructure at Ovum-RHK. "Enabling network operators to make this transformation are the goals of ECI's new ShadeTree MS."

ShadeTree MS is designed to minimize overhead by integrating non-intrusively with existing services and applications on the network. By allowing services to be consolidated across the broadband service platform and the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) system, ShadeTree MS reduces operator error and lowers the cost of deployment and maintenance. The product also ensures network consistency through verified service configuration in both the network and the underlying system protocols.

ECI Telecom Ltd.