Global market share increased to 28% annually in 2014, higher than any other Asia Pacific provider in Ovum report

13 May 2015, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, is pleased to be the highest-ranked Asia Pacific vendor of optical networking products in the latest report by telecommunications consultancy Ovum.

ZTE increased its annual market share in optical networking products to 28% globally, higher than any other vendor from Asia Pacific, according to Ovum.　

In 2014, the annual shipments of ZTE 100G (100 gigabit per second) OTN products exceeded 10,000 sets. ZTE’s 100G OTN products are deployed in more than 150 commercial networks globally, with combined line-lengths of more than 100,000 km. PCCW, China Mobile, T-Mobile Austria, Telkom Indonesia, Telefonica Peru, China Telecom, China Unicom and CERNET are among customers in Asia, Europe and the Americas that have deployed ZTE’s OTN products in their 4G LTE, wireline broadband and data center networks, benefiting from increased network transport capacity and improved network performance.

The superior performance and capabilities of ZTE’s OTN products have been recognized in a series of awards in the industry. In 2013, ZTE 100G products won the “Best Optical Product – 100G” award at the 15th Annual WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking forum held in Monaco. In 2012, ZTE deployed the national backbone commercial network for T-Mobile Austria using WDM Automatic Switch Optical Network (WASON) intelligent OTN network solution, which won the “Backbone Optical Network Innovation Award” from Global Telecommunications Business (GTB).

ZTE is committed to research and innovation to keep the company at the forefront of the market. ZTE set a number of new world records in the beyond 100G transmission technology field including 400G/1T. In November 2014, ZTE announced that it created the world record of using only EDFA to transmit 16×1Tbps signals in full configuration at all C band for 3500 km in the acceptance test of 863 Project. In March 2014, using its patented technology, ZTE successfully accomplished a long-distance transmission for 3600 km in single-mode fibers, setting a world record in 400G high-speed transmission field. In October 2013, ZTE and China Telecom jointly completed the real-time system experiment for T-bit ULH optical transmission and created the world record of 3200 km real-time transmission. Currently the real-time optical transmission system has the longest transmission distance and highest transmission rate.