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New Invest NI Chief Executive Officially Opens £6.7m BTI Systems Offices
Invest Northern Ireland’s new Chief Executive says the agency remains more focused than ever before on winning high quality inward investment projects.
Belfast, UK — Thursday, April 2, 2009 // Mr Hamilton was speaking as he officially opened the BTI Systems European Headquarters and Software Centre of Excellence in Belfast today.
BTI Systems is a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge solutions which includes the development of state of the art systems for the delivery of high bandwidth voice, video and data communications.
Plans by the North American telecommunications company to establish a £6.7million base in Belfast were announced in October 2008. Invest NI offered £660,000 towards the total project costs.
Opening the headquarters at Montgomery Street in Belfast City Centre, his first official role as Invest NI Chief Executive, Mr Hamilton said: “Only 5 months after announcing the integral role that Northern Ireland would play in its future global expansion, BTI Systems’ new European headquarters and software centre of excellence is already in operation.
“By 2011, sixty people will be based here, engaged in software development and the delivery of advanced technical solutions for a prestigious international client base. I am delighted that BTI Systems has chosen Northern Ireland and I am confident that this new base will make a significant contribution to BTI’s growth plans whilst showcasing local expertise and talent.
“The very presence of BTI Systems in Northern Ireland is a resounding endorsement of our talented people, cost competitiveness and growing knowledge infrastructure, particularly during these difficult economic times. Combined with Invest NI support, this region remains an exceptionally attractive location for inward investment so in moving forward, we will endeavor to build on our success to date, and strengthen our focus on securing high value, mobile investment and reinvestment projects.”
Gregory Koss, Chairman and CEO, BTI Systems added: “Today symbolises the beginning of a new phase in our global expansion, with Northern Ireland playing a key role in the delivery of best-in-class technologies and solutions for our European client base.
“With the changing nature of the global marketplace, our customers are increasingly looking to cost effective, compact, energy-efficient solutions for high-definition video, wireless backhaul, and Ethernet business services. This new headquarters and software centre will ensure that we can provide an even more rapid response from an accessible European location and maintain our commitment to delivering technology that maximises our customers’ return on investment.
“We have been immensely impressed by the calibre of people recruited to date and are confident that working in partnership with our main development centre in North America, that our R&D potential can be fully maximised.”
Notes to editors:
BTI Systems decided to locate the European headquarters and software centre of excellence in Belfast, moving to its permanent Montgomery Street location in February 2009.
About BTI Systems
BTI Systems addresses increasing demand for Ethernet services, greater optical capacity, dynamic networking, and management simplicity in service provider and enterprise networks. Expanding the capacity of a single fiber up to 320Gbps, BTI’s Intelligent Service Edge solutions provide wavelength and packet-level delivery of high capacity services such as video, storage, wired data, wireless data and voice, and media to the network edge. Incorporating state-of-the-art technology BTI products are engineered for very low power consumption to reduce carbon footprint in central offices and data centers. The BTI portfolio consists of The BTI 7000 Packet Optical Edge, the BTI 700 Ethernet Access, and the Netstender microWDM™ Series. Key transport capabilities including CWDM/DWDM, optical multiplexing, amplification, dispersion compensation, software-provisionable multiprotocol client service interfaces, and packet-switching. End-to-end management of the BTI Network is provided by the proNX™ Management Suite.
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