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ITI bags BSNL switches order

Our Bureau

BANGALORE, Nov. 22

ITI, the public sector telecom equipment major, has bagged an order valued at Rs 175 crore for supplying the 500 kilo lines C-DOT MAX-XL switches to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). ITI emerged as the lowest bid in the recently concluded tender of BSNL a midst stiff competition from makers of digital exchanges.

MAX-XL is the indigenously designed digital exchange developed by C-DOT to suit Indian conditions, up to a capacity of 40,000 lines. IT has special in-built features such as CCS-7, ISDN CLIP _ a 20 digit numbering scheme for ISD calls, different STD and ISD counters for revenue metering CAMA functions,says a company release here.

ITI, is the lead manufacturer of C-DOT MAX-XL exchanges and its first 40,000 lines capacity exchange was installed at Indiranagar (Bangalore) in 1997.