25 June 2015, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has won the ‘Best Innovation in Heterogeneous Networks‘ award with its Qcell digital indoor coverage solution at the LTE World Summit 2015 in Amsterdam.
The Qcell digital indoor coverage solution has been commercially deployed and highly praised by Sichuan Telecom, Chongqing Unicom, as well as other customers. This award reaffirms the advantages and overall quality of the Qcell solution regarding in-depth coverage and deployment of 4G networks.
With high integration, high capacity, seamless coverage, rapid deployment, smooth evolution, manageability, and controllability, ZTE’s Qcell solution helps operators to quickly build integrated multi-mode (2G/3G/4G) indoor coverage networks with high performance at a low cost. This solution is comprised of three parts: pico remote radio unit (RRU), pBridge, and baseband unit (BBU). picoRRU, which is currently the world's smallest multi-frequency and multi-mode RRU, uses standard Ethernet cables for networking and power supply. The BBU and pBridge are connected through optic fibres to facilitate resource sharing between multiple cells. In addition, the Qcell solution shares a network management system with traditional macro base stations. This simplified network architecture not only lowers engineering complexity and deployment and maintenance costs, but also reduces 60 percent of the deployment time.