Tera Santa Consortium targets world's first Terabit optical network

April 11, 2011

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ISRAEL -- Seven leading Israeli companies and five universities in Israel announced today the formation of the Tera Santa Consortium, whose goal is to develop the world's first Terabit Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based optical network. With financial support provided by the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) through its Magnet program, the founding consortium members are ECI Telecom, Finisar Corporation Israeli subsidiary, Orckit-Corrigent, Elisra-Elbit, MultiPhy, Optiway, Civcom, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Ben-Gurion University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, and Tel-Aviv University.

Shai Stein, Chairman of the Tera Santa Consortium and ECI Telecom's CTO said, "We have created a consortium structure in which we amplify and leverage the cooperative efforts of major companies and an ensemble of top researchers in our field, supported by generous government funding. I believe this transcends what any single company alone may accomplish. It also promotes an unprecedented degree of inter-academia-industry cooperation. I am excited that we have come up with an out-of-the-box concrete approach towards realizing our vision for a Terabit system."

ECI Telecom Ltd.

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