Green Innovation Award Confirms Market Leading Power Reduction Benefits

6 May 2008, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today reveals that its award winning Broadband Universal Access System could help operators make a major impact on their carbon footprint as well as save millions of dollars a year in power costs. ZTE 's DSLAM ZXDSL FSAP 9806H overreaches the European code of conduct on energy consumption for broadband equipment's from a power consumption point offering a significant power consumption savings per port.

"Operators are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility towards the environment," said Zhang Xinyu, director, global market, fixed network management team at ZTE.  "ZTE's DSLAM solution enables broadband providers to radically reduce their carbon footprint and has recently been recognised as the 'Best Green Innovation' at the Convergence World Awards," he added.

ZTE's 9806H is a network device offering up to 96 ADSL2+ lines or 64 VDSL2 lines in a 2U rack and is located near the customers' location, so connecting multiple DSLs to a high-speed internet line using multiplexing techniques.  This Broadband Universal Access System is perfectly suited for this fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) network architecture model and enables operators to build a next-generation broadband network while reusing existing copper cables.  This helps preserve operators' existing investments and maximise the revenues associated to new broadband services, including video-on-demand, IPTV, and Internet games.

By equipping its DSLAM solution with a passive optical network (PON) uplink card, ZTE has reduced the amount of fibre required - when compared to traditional, point-to-point Ethernet architectures - allowing operators to serve multiple premises using a single optical fibre cable.  This means ZTE's solution enables broadband operators to significantly limit their power consumption, achieving substantial cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint.

ZTE's Broadband Universal Access System has been awarded the Best Green Innovation award at Convergence World 2008, announced last Tuesday April 29th at SOFNET in London, UK, as well as the InfoVision award in the Access Network Technologies and Services category at the Broadband World Forum 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

Analyst house Gartner has ranked ZTE as the world's fastest growing provider of DSL equipment in 2007.  Over 35 million lines of ZTE DSL products have been widely used in 40 countries and regions including Sweden, Greece, Hong Kong, Argentina, India, Turkey, Italy, Indonesia and Brazil - making ZTE one of the world's top 3 DSLAM providers.