ULH DWDM backbone network will help fixed line operator GTS Central Europe extend international connection

ZTE Corporation, the fastest growing global provider of telecommunication equipment and network solutions, has been selected by GTS Central Europe, a leading regional telecommunication provider to business, corporate and international carriers, to deploy an ultra long haul DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) backbone transmission network spanning Eastern and Western Europe.

The new network will enable GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) to extend the existing connection between Frankfurt in Germany, Prague in the Czech Republic and Bratislava in Slovakia.

"This contract is an indication of the increasing strength of the Eastern European economies and their systematic integration with Western European markets. ZTE is delighted to be helping GTS CE’s development as a major regional telecommunication provider," said Mr. Guo Jun, president of ZTE Central & Eastern Europe. "To date ZTE has won several global DWDM contracts worldwide, including Germany, Poland, Romania, India, Pakistan and Hong Kong. We are winning increasing numbers of contracts in Europe as operators and carriers see the quality of our systems and services operating directly in their markets."

This deal follows a string of significant backbone transmission contracts won and installed by ZTE in European markets.  ZTE has successfully deployed its equipment in the Bulgarian national optical network, the Romanian SDH backbone network which covers the most major cities of Romania as well as the optical transmission network in Macedonia, which connects Macedonia with surrounding countries Serbia & Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece.

GTS CE owns five telecommunications operators in the CEE region, including GTS Novera, the second largest fixed line operator in the Czech Republic. The group provides its customers with a wide range of telecommunication services using its own national and international network infrastructure.  The new network is crucial for GTS CE because it will enable the company to significantly extend its existing capacity potential and improve their competitor differentiation. A series of stringent interoperability tests was carried out prior to awarding the contract to ZTE.

The network will adopt ZTE’s ZXWM M900 DWDM equipment with RZ coding and AFEC ULH DWDM transmission technologies to guarantee 1000km transmission without electrical regeneration.

The system can provide up to 160*10G DWDM (1.6Tb) capacity, and be configured with variety of transponder cards fulfill all up-to-date capacity and interface demands.

ZTE is able to provide a complete range of optical network solutions including ASON (automatic switching optical network) equipment, EPON (ethernet passive optical networks) and GPON (gigabit passive optical networks) equipment, backbone DWDM equipment, metro DWDM equipment, and SDH/MSTP (SDH/multi-service transmission platform) equipment, and has become one of the world’s major suppliers of optical transmission equipment.

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Margrete Ma
ZTE Corporation 
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