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telent Selected to Upgrade E.ON’s Communications NetworkBacknang, Germany, 20 Feb, 2007– telent (LSE: TLNT) a leading supplier of technology services, today announced that it has been awarded the contract to upgrade the mission critical communications network for E.ON Netz GmbH, an E.ON group company. The E.ON group is one of the world’s largest energy service providers. telent will upgrade the existing SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) network to next-generation SDH systems such as OMS1664, OMS1684 and OMS840. The new network will enable E.ON to migrate its TDM-based communication traffic to Ethernet and IP-based services. The OMS-based platform enables flexible configuration, both as a cross-connect for traditional TDM services, as well as for broadband data transmission units. The network can be further upgraded to allow higher bandwidth capacity (STM-64) and WDM. "Communications are vital to all businesses, but for companies like E.ON a network fault can impact hundreds of thousands of people,” said Paul Schneider, Sales Director at telent. “telent has many years of experience of commissioning, building and managing mission critical networks in Germany and the UK and we are delighted to win this contract with E.ON. We are confident that this upgraded network will offer E.ON greater efficiency and a reduction in its communications OPEX.” About telent plc:telent plc supplies a broad range of telecommunication and IT network services to enterprises, equipment vendors, public sector organisations and network operators in the UK, Ireland and Germany, leveraging its accumulated knowledge of customers’ networks, its expert field force, its scale and reputation for quality. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TLNT. Additional information about telent plc can be found at http://www.telent.com/. About E.ON Netz GmbH:E.ON Netz GmbH operates the German electricity network for E.ON. The company, which is headquartered in Bayreuth, has more than 32,600km of power lines from Flensburg to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, one of the main electricity networks in Europe. The company employs more than 1,800 employees at over 40 sites. E.ON has its own network to control power distribution and support its telecommunication services.
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