4 June 2021, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, and the Hunan branch of China Telecom have successfully deployed ZTE's core router ZXR10 T8000 in China Telecom's IP MAN in Hunan.

During the epidemic, the two parties jointly set up an expert team and had completed the equipment deployment, cutover and provisioning on two nodes as scheduled in late March and early April in 2021, satisfying China Telecom's service demands.

The successful commercial deployment of the core routers relies on the high efficiency and professional capability of ZTE team, commented executives of China Telecom. 

The ZXR10 T8000 is ZTE's high-end flagship router. It has been running stably for over 10 years in the core router scenario in China, and has been deployed in 23 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities) in China. In recent years, it has made great progress in the market. In the first core routing/switching devices centralized procurement after unified negotiation and contract signing of China Telecom in 2019, the ZTE ZXR10 T8000 won the biggest share in both single and cluster sections. In the core router centralized procurement 2020 of China Telecom, ZTE took the second largest share in CR-A1 and CR-A2 sections to build national backbone network nodes of ChinaNet and CN2. In November 2020, ZTE devices went live at the ChinaNet network node I (in the domestic segment of the international network) in the Shanghai Information Park, to serve as the communication hub of the ChinaNet international network egress and ingress.

Riding the wave of large-scale 5G deployment, China Telecom has been following the development trend of cloud and network convergence, and adhering to the network construction guide of taking the network as the basis and the cloud as the core. As the pioneer in 5G network construction, ZTE has been one of the most important partners in China Telecom's 5G network construction.

Moving forward, ZTE will, as always, fully support the operators in their 5G construction, and assist them in building high-quality telecommunications networks, so as to further accelerate network evolution towards ultra-broadband, simplified, and intelligent networks, and jointly achieve commercial success in the 5G era.