“Companies have to move towards convergence because up to 70% of costs necessary to implement a grid are construction costs. The cooperation between providers of various types of networking equipment leads to significant cost cuts, which makes it possible to implement the infrastructure in rural or isolated areas,” said Catalin Marinescu, chairman of the communications regulatory authority ANCOM.
“In Romania there are many growth opportunities, there is still low penetration of Internet services in many areas. Potential clients also include city halls, utility providers, which could be involved in building smart grids,” said Yoav Gazelle, president and general manager of ECI Telecom’s Business Unit.
Israel’s ECI Telecom, with a ten-year presence on the Romanian market and such clients as RCS&RDS and UPC, has research centers in the US, India, China and Israel and works with companies such as Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom at international level. The company provides technical solutions for broadband Internet infrastructure, including for smart grids.