WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 135 / 356
5.3.4.1 Ascom
[A40] Ascom is as an international solution supplier for secure and high-availability voice and
data transmission. The Swiss Group is structured in the four business segments Network
Integration, Security Solutions, Wireless Solutions and Transport Revenue, each built on a
highly specialised technology base. The company concentrates on profitable international
niche markets with organic and acquisition-supported growth potential.
In Eastern Europe, Ascom Powerline Communications realized, for the provider 23Vnet, a
trial site in Budapest for 23Vnet) and in Zhelesnogorsk (Russia) for the electric company
Energomegasbit O.O.O.
5.3.4.2 Ilevo
[E09] Ilevo was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of Ericsson. Relying on a team of
telecommunication experts who have already been working for ten years within Ericsson,
Ilevo developed from 2000 to 2003, one of the most powerful offers for broadband PLC
applications.
In 2003, Ilevo was acquired by Schneider Electric who brought the electrical expertise
needed to succeed in deploying the technology, the financial strength and the permanence
as well as the local presence everywhere around the world. The Ilevo products are now
designed and sold by Schneider Electric Powerline Communications, a fully owned
subsidiary of Schneider Electric.
Today, Schneider Electric Powerline Communications is a company based in Sweden and
France with several sales offices throughout the world providing our customers with a local
presence while benefiting from a corporate group of highly skilled experts.
In Eastern Europe, Ilevo supplied a trial site in Bárdudvarnok (Hungary), for the Xyscom ISP.