News Brief

ZTE Awarded Optical Vendor of the Year and IPTV Vendor of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

15 June 2011, Shenzhen — ZTE announced that it has been awarded “IPTV Vendor of the Year” for the third consecutive year by leading global research firm Frost & Sullivan. The award was presented at the 2011 ITC Awards. ZTE was also named “Optical Vendor of the Year” in recognition of the company’s significant contribution to the field of optical transmission. ZTE has a significant influence in the optical transmission and IPTV markets of Asia, South America and the Middle East. 

Jayesh Easwaramony, vice president of ICT practice at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific commented that ZTE was the only vendor in the optical network market to grow its revenue in APAC. Despite stiff competition, ZTE added significant wins in tier 1 operators and also diversified its business outside China. Its product enhancements for PTN and OTN, including self-cooling and additional capacity, have improved operational efficiency and ZTE’s value proposition to operators.

In the IPTV market, ZTE ranks first in Asia in terms of the number of IPTV users, with a market share of 11%, and third in the global IPTV middleware market.

ZTE Partners with Nucleus Connect to Build BSS/OSS System for Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network

22 June 2011, Shenzhe — ZTE today announced that Nucleus Connect, the operating company of Singapore’s next generation nationwide broadband network, has partnered with ZTE to build the BSS/OSS platforms that will allow Nucleus Connect to support end-to-end services such as business operations, billing, fault management, network management, and maintenance.

ZTE’s highly flexible BSS/OSS solution allows customized configurations that work well in an open access environment. ZTE’s BSS/OSS will provide Nucleus Connect with fast and reliable service provision, multimode billing, and effective network operation. It also performs maintenance through flexible process management, overlapped resource modeling, powerful SOA structure, and easy-to-scale interfacing models. ZTE’s system will support new services under the company’s wholesale bandwidth business and help Nucleus Connect run its business operations efficiently.

Axiata and ZTE Sign a Five-Year Strategic Global Framework Agreement at CommunicAsia

23 June 2011, Singapore — ZTE today announced at CommunicAsia 2011 that it has signed a five-year strategic global framework agreement with Axiata Group Berhad, one of Asia’s largest telecommunications companies. The signing strengthens the partnership between the two companies.

The global framework agreement will be a platform for the purchase of telecom and other products as well as the provision of services by ZTE to Axiata and its group of companies. This strategic effort will be mutually beneficial for both parties in realizing business efficiencies and competitive advantages through cash flow improvement and timely purchasing.

ZTE Releases a Future-proof Optical Transport Network Device for Metro Edge Layer

ZXMP M721 enables end-to-end optical metro transport network

27 June 2011, Shenzhen — ZTE today announced that it has released a compact OTN metro edge layer device, ZXMP M721, which further improves ZTE’s ability to deliver future-proof end-to-end metro transport networks.

Only 1U or 2U high, ZXMP M721 is a compact and intelligent OTN device that supports DC and AC power supply. It includes a range of new technologies to meet the changing requirements of metro edge layer networking. Its powerful and flexible network technologies include fast E2E service provision, service dispatching, OAM, and 1588 V2 time synchronization. These help ZTE achieve one of the telecom industry’s major goals—unified, future-proof E2E OTN metro transport networks.

ZTE Ranked First in PTN Market Revenue Share in 1Q11 by Dell'Oro Group

30 June 2011, Shenzhen — ZTE today announced that it has the highest revenue share in the PTN market for 1Q11.

According to a recent optical transport report published by Dell'Oro Group, ZTE has total market revenue of 43.9%, making it first among all global PTN companies. This also represents a massive growth in revenue, up 150% compared with 1Q10.

ZTE’s revenue increase can be largely attributed to sales in Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and Latin America. Its PTN products have been put into large-scale commercial use by the three operators in China and many tier one telecom operators in Europe and Latin America.

ZTE India Successfully Deploys a New VAS Platform for Vodafone Essar

To offer anytime, anywhere news update service to Vodafone customers

28 June 2011, Shenzhen  — ZTE today announced that it has successfully built and deployed an advanced VAS platform for Vodafone Essar in India. With the completion of the platform, Vodafone customers can now access Vodafone Newswrap—a mobile newspaper service. The introduction of Newswrap will play a key role in enhancing VAS revenue for Vodafone Essar in today’s highly competitive market.

As part of the project, ZTE India has created MNS and MMSC platforms using a revenue-sharing model for the first time. This adds a new dimension to ZTE’s business in India as it expands its focus from being an equipment provider to providing end-to-end VAS solutions.

ZTE AC30 Mobile Hotspot Launches with Alltel Wireless

30 June 2011, Richardson TX — ZTE today announced the launch of Alltel AC30 Mobile Hotspot for Alltel Wireless. The device enables mobile customers to access the Internet via a secure 3G network connection.

The Alltel AC30 by ZTE is an ideal solution for customers who work remotely or use their mobiles for pleasure as the portable plug-and-play device easily connects to Alltel’s network. Users looking to increase productivity or provide Internet access to others will benefit from the hotspot’s ability to simultaneously connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices, including tablets, netbooks and gaming devices.

ZTE Unveils World’s First Commercial LTE Micro Base Station

ZTE's new LTE BS8920 micro base station is a technological revolution in hotspot coverage and product footprint

4 July 2011, Shenzhen — ZTE has launched ZXSDR BS8920, the world’s smallest commercially available LTE base station. At 150Mbps, BS8920 also has the largest capacity of any LTE micro base station. It has 2 ×10W transmit power and 2T4R modulation for a large footprint and offers significantly lower TCO because of its reduced hardware, reduced power consumption and lower deployment costs.

ZXSDR BS8920 is targeted at the rapidly growing market for urban and indoor hotspot coverage and costs up to 50% less than a distributed base station. The BS8920 has key features that reduce power consumption to as low as 100W on average. It also has up to 30 percent lower deployment costs compared with other distributed base stations.

BS8920 is less than half the size and weight of a standard RRU and meets the industry requirements for an Omni sector eNodeB product. It also supports all-standard LTE frequency band spectrums and AC/DC power supply.

ZTE Secures a $900 Million Syndicated Loan, Supporting Strategic Expansion in Overseas Markets

8 July 2011, Shenzhen — ZTE today announced  it has entered into an agreement for a $900 million three to five year syndicated-term loan with 10 leading international banks through its wholly owned subsidiary ZTE (H.K.) LTD.

The loan will be guaranteed by ZTE and will be used for the general working capital requirements of ZTE (H.K.) LTD. Raising the debt in US dollars is an effective way for ZTE to hedge against the appreciation of the RMB. ZTE’s financing offer has significant support from 10 international banks and is more than two times over-subscribed from the initial target. This level of support clearly demonstrates ZTE’s strength and good prospects.

Mr. Wei Zaisheng (L), executive vice president of ZTE and Mr. Lin Guangming (R), general manager of Bank of China (H.K.) LTD at the signing ceremony

ZTE Sets World Record with First WDMTbit ULH Transmission in Beyond-100G Field

13 July 2011, Shenzhen ― ZTE announced that it achieved a signal transmission rate of 24Tb/s (24×1.3Tb/s) using its WDM technology. This transmission rate sets a new world record in optical networking, and the results were written up and presented as a post deadline paper at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The result comes on the back of an earlier world record set by ZTE where single-channel 10Tb/s optical OFDM signals were transmitted at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in March 2011. This makes ZTE the leader in both the 100G and beyond-100G optical networks. 

1Tb/s transmission bit rate per channel is likely to become the industry standard after 100Gb/s. It has 10 times more capacity in terms of signal bandwidth. Previously, 1Tb/s single-channel transmission rate had only been talked about in theory. ZTE has also accomplished 24Tb/s WDM signal transmission, which is the first time in the industry WDM technology has achieved a terabit per second rate.