News Brief

ZTE Awarded the “Best Practice Award—2010 Competitive Product for Packet Transport Network Industry ” Accolade By Frost & Sullivan

9 September 2010, Shenzhen — ZTE today announced it has won the prestigious “Best Practice Award—2010 Competitive Product for Packet Transport Network Industry”. The accolade was awarded to ZTE by Frost & Sullivan, a world leader in growth consulting company. Winning this award is a direct recognition of ZTE’s contribution to the PTN field. This is the second time ZTE has won one of the celebrated “Best Practice Awards” following receipt of the “Best Practice Award—2009 IPTV Equipment Vendor of the Year” in 2009.

Based on its research in 2009, Frost & Sullivan believed that with the acceleration of the commercialization of PTN, this market is beginning to take shape. Based on its unique market engineering method, Frost & Sullivan conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the PTN market, organizing an expert panel to evaluate the overall strengths, market share, technical strengths and product advantages of a number of mainstream vendors in the industry including ZTE. With its significant advantages in PTN technologies and commercial deployment, ZTE won the honor. 

Since starting its PTN standard research and product development in 2004, ZTE has submitted 118 proposals, 164 invention patents and 13 basic patents related to international standards to organizations including IEEE, ITU-T, and IETF. ZTE is a key player driving the development of PTN technologies and industry supply chains.

ZTE was the first in the industry to introduce an entire range of PTN products, covering the entire network from the core layer to the access layer. All five of ZTE’s PTN products have powerful networking capability and application support capability, enabling support for the most accurate and refined time synchronization solutions in the industry. The large capacity and low power consumption design can fully meet the green evolution needs of networks as well as their core business needs.

As the industry’s first-class PTN solutions provider, ZTE has entered into in-depth partnerships with operators across the globe, with solutions widely adopted in many countries and regions including Finland, The Republic of Montenegro, Brazil, Malaysia, and Vietnam. In the Phase-1 PTN project for China Mobile, ZTE has successfully delivered commercial PTN networks in 27 provincial regions including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong.

According to the “Market Share: 1Q10 optical networks, global and regional” report by leading market research firm Ovum, ZTE continued to maintain fast growth in the optical networking market and was already one of the global top 3 players in terms of market share. PTN has become a key driver for ZTE in the deployment of next generation optical networking technologies, in order to excel in the marketplace.

CSL and ZTE Set to Commercially Launch the World’s First Dual Cell HSPA+ (42Mbps)/LTE Network

7 September 2010, Hong Kong ― At the LTE Asia 2010 Conference today, CSL Limited (CSL), Hong Kong’s leading mobile network operator in partnership with ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions demonstrated CSL’s progress to being the first in the world to simultaneously deploy DC HSPA+(42Mbps)/LTE technologies on an entire network.

 CSL and ZTE demonstrated to the world live LTE service with pre-commercial USB modems running various broadband, multi-media applications, including high-speed file download/upload, internet browsing, HD video download and streaming performance, and many other features that will resonate with the next generation of mobile users. This gives the delegates a first-hand experience with the LTE service being deployed all over Hong Kong.

ZTE Supplies Over 3,500 3G Equipment to Taiwan VIBO Telecom

Total shipment of SDR base-stations is over 250 thousand units worldwide

27 September 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE today announced it has signed a contract to supply WCDMA wireless equipment to VIBO Telecom Inc. As a subsidiary of theTaiwan Kinpo-Compal Group, VIBO is the leader of pure 3G WCDMA operator in Taiwan.

Under the agreement, ZTE will supply more than 3,500 3G base-stations to replace VIBO’s existing 3G network around Taiwan within one year. The base-stations to be provided for VIBO are based on ZTE’s industry-leading Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology.

In recent years, ZTE has achieved a breakthrough across the global UMTS markets based on its leading edge SDR technical platform. To date, the total shipment of ZTE’s SDR base stations is already over 250,000 units, used by more than 60 operators in over 40 countries.

ZTE Awarded “2010 IPTV Equipment Vendor of the Year” Accolade

29 September 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE has been recognized as the “Best Practice Award―2010 IPTV Equipment Vendor of the year”, marking the second time it has received the accolade. It received the award based on research conducted by leading consulting company, Frost & Sullivan.

 Among IPTV vendors, ZTE ranked third in the world IPTV middleware market in terms of subscribers in 2010 H1, and was the leader in the IPTV middleware markets of Asia and China in 2010 H1.

With the development of the global broadband market, IPTV content and application has become more important. As one of the latest broadband applications, IPTV has attracted industry attention.

ZTE to Build CDMA Network for Polkomtel

Data services main driver for nationwide network in Poland

14 September 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE is to upgrade Polish operator Polkomtel’s national CDMA network. ZTE will supply equipment for the network in the 450MHz (L band), upgrading existing infrastructure to improve coverage and enable data and Push-to-Talk services.

Polkomtel is one of the largest operators in Poland, with about 14 million subscribers. ZTE Poland will supply all equipment for the network including base stations and controllers, switching nodes, service platforms, and a GoTa digital trunking system.

“There is a growing demand in Poland for data services and high-bandwidth applications. Our subscriber base wants to be connected and make use of social networking. ZTE’s CDMA technology enables Polkomtel to stay ahead of the competition and offer consumers the quality of services and innovative applications they are looking for,” said Jarosław Bauc, President of the Board at Polkomtel.

ZTE Launches the Gecko, the World’s First Multi-Carrier Super-Mini CDMA Base Station

30 September 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE today announced the launch of Gecko, the first multi-carrier super-mini CDMA base station available in the industry. The innovative Gecko is small in size (measuring 26cm×18cm×5.8cm), lightweight, easy to mount and satisfies operators’ networking requirements, such as indoor blind-spot coverage and hot-spot traffic distribution.

 The Gecko helps operators make up for any deficiencies, improves network quality, enhances user experience and builds high-efficiency and high-quality CDMA networks.

ZTE’s Gecko base station supports several IP networking modes and achieves access by using various transmission resources (such as MAN, LAN, PON, xDSL, and satellite). Its coverage radius can reach 300 meters, thus meeting high service standards for use in offices, hotels, retail and entertainment outlets, as well as providing high quality indoor 3G data and voice  services.

ZTE Launches Industry’s Most Complete 100G End-to-end Carrier Network Solution

Carrier network operators to benefit from comprehensive range of UWB products and services

28 September 2010, Shenzhen, China ― ZTE today announced the launch of the industry’s most complete 100G end-to-end carrier network solution, which will provide the bandwidth capacity for network operators to meet increasing network traffic demands.

The explosive popularity of IT applications, HD video services and cloud computing has led to a massive spike in network traffic. For carrier networks to provide sufficient capacity, operators need to expand and upgrade their networks smoothly. Through the deployment of ZTE’s ZXWM M920 and ZXONE 8000 as part of the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) 100G carrier network solution, operators can eliminate any traffic bottleneck in the core networks, and fully meet the demands of the growing data business.

To achieve the 80-wave, 100G ultra-wide system capacity, ZTE’s complete solution incorporates the use of ZXR10 T8000 in the IP layer to realize the smooth upgrade from 10G to 100G. ZXR10 T8000 is a telecom-class 100G routing cluster system with the largest capacity in the industry, which can support multiple services with compromising performance in case of full-service overlapping. By using chips with self-owned intellectual property, ZXR10 T8000 can maximally support 16+64 multi-chassis system and 200T switching capability.

ZTE Launches Converged Service Network Platform

SDP as a Service solution announced at SDP Global Summit

15 September 2010, London ― ZTE today launched its Converged Service Network (CSN) at the SDP Global Summit in London. ZTE’s CSN incorporates traditional SDP architecture and cloud computing features, enabling an SDP as a Service (SDPaaS) solution for the first time. The CSN provides an efficient and stable service network platform for operators, third-party application providers, and individual or group application developers.

The CSN is a new service network platform integrating mobile and fixed network infrastructure onto a basic platform that supports both Internet and telecoms services, providing a flexible solution with efficient management and control features. Traditional SDPs also provide the flexibility to support and manage different services, but are not able to support multi-domain service convergence, or an environment where developers can collaborate and share innovative services.