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April 07, 1995 - Image 56

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1995-04-07

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Miracle Mission II:
We're In It
Heart And Sole.

When you buy a pair of men's or women's
shoes at Sherman's during March or April
and mention this ad, well donate 10% of
the proceeds to the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit.

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RIGHT CALL page 49

Mr. Rubner served as ECI's
chief engineer during the 1970s,
helping navigate the company's
shift from entertainment elec-
tronics to military electronics and
technology.
During that time, ECI was
sold by the investment company
that Mr.. Herzog headed to
Clal.
A key change occurred in 1978,
when Mr. Goren resigned and
was replaced by Meir Lazar. At
that time, Mr. Rubner was pro-
moted from chief engineer to ex-
ecutive vice president and head
of operations.
It was in that same year that
the company began developing
the product which would take it
through its next major transition:
From products with strictly mil-
itary applications to the com-
mercial field.
That product, the first of its
kind, was a telephone line
doubler — a device that could
turn one telephone line into two.
How did ECI make that tran-
sition so smoothly when so many
others failed?
"It was a combination of need,
planning, and luck," Mr. Rubner
said. "That's usually the combi-
nation that's successful. We
wanted to go into the commercial
field, we were lucky we had de-
veloped a technology that had
commercial applications, and we
planned the transition well."
The most significant "lucky
break" in that transition took
place in 1983, when ECI was ap-
proached by the German Bun-
despost.
The company had a problem.
While additional telephone lines
were needed to link Berlin
(which, during the Cold War, was
geographically isolated) to oth-
er West German cities, East Ger-
many refused to allow additional
lines or to take up additional ra-
dio frequencies.
The only possible solution that
the Germans could find was to
use the ECI telephone line dou-
bler to increase the capacity of
their existing lines.
"We basically solved their prob-
lem," Mr. Rubner said. "They
were very happy with the solu-
tion and our relationship with
that company became excellent.
That really paved the way to our
success in telephony."
After that breakthrough, tele-
phone companies throughout
Western Europe, and in other
countries, took notice of the
product.
Today, helping countries in-
crease their telecommunications
capacities is still a staple of ECI's
business. Its digital circuit mul-
tiplication device can multiply by
five the capacity of intercity or in-
ternational telephone lines.
According to Mr. Rubner, ECI
has 70 percent of the world mar-
ket in telephone circuit multipli-
cation. It competes only with
NEC and Mitsubishi. ❑

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