News Brief

ZTE Named World’s 4th Biggest Smartphone Manufacturer

30 October 2012, Shenzhen ― ZTE announced that it climbed one position to become the 4th biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world during the third quarter of 2012, according to IDC, a leading provider of global ICT market research and advisory services.

The IDC report, Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, details that ZTE shipped 7.5 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012, closely following RIM with only 0.1 percentage points between them. Number 5 in Q2, ZTE overcame HTC in the last quarter to rank in the global top four smartphone providers for the first time.

The IDC data showed that ZTE’s increased market share is due to continued international diversification efforts in Q3. Traditionally dependent on sales in China, ZTE has now achieved significant uptake in developed countries with 35 percent of its overall smartphone shipments being sold in leading international markets, especially North America.     

ZTE Helps CERNET Build World’s Largest Coherent 100G OTN

8 November 2012, Shenzhen ― ZTE announced it has won a network expansion project for phase 3 of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET).

As part of the project, ZTE will provide its industry leading coherent 100G solution and ZXONE 8000 series OTN products to build the backbone bearer network. The 100G solution is capable of hybrid transmission of 100G and 10G services and supports a seamless upgrade from 10G to 100G. The phase 3 expansion will begin in 2012 and aims to expand the coverage and transmission capacity of the network and to improve its speed and security. The network will cover Beijing, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Xi’an. Its total transmission distance will exceed 10,000 km.

ZTE Wins Big Share of China Unicom BRAS Centralized Purchase

1 November 2012, Shenzhen ― ZTE won a tender by China Unicom for broadband remote access server (BRAS) data communications equipment used in metropolitan area networks. The purchase of ZTE’s ZXR10 M6000 equipment accounted for 45% of China Unicom’s tender for new network construction, and covers 15 provinces, including Liaoning, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Henan, Guangdong and Zhejiang. The latest contract win followed a similar BRAS network tender by China Unicom in 2011, when ZTE won a 17% share. ZTE’s ZXR10 M6000 equipment is now deployed in 17 provinces, and is the mainstream product for China Unicom’s BRAS and SR networks.

 The ZXR10 M6000’s simultaneous support for both BRAS and SR platforms, and the reliable user connectivity offered by the hot standby technology are the most significant reasons for the deployment by China Unicom. The ability to support IPv6 and other evolving technologies also enables China Unicom to make a smooth transition to next-generation internet technology and resolve issues such as the shortage of internet addresses. With excellent price-performance characteristics, the ZXR10 M6000 helps maximize China Unicom’s return on investment.

ZTE Wins Best Broadband Partnership at Broadband InfoVision Awards

18 October 2012, Amsterdam ― ZTE along with its partner Wexnet wins Best Broadband Partnership at the Broadband InfoVision awards held at Broadband World Forum 2012 (BBWF) in Amsterdam.

Since August 2011 ZTE has worked closely with Wexnet, a Swedish broadband operator to build a network that allows end users to select their own service providers and content providers for internet access, IP telephony, and IPTV services using ‘ICP Store’ a truly innovative service. For the first time users will be able to ‘self-organize’ their network and choose the service providers that best suit their individual needs, but at the same time have the services delivered over a single network.

‘ICP Store’ enables Wexnet to provide a better service to customers. Wexnet can now offer a range of choices to customers in ISP Services, IPTV Services and VoIP Services. According to Wexnet Technical Director Lars Wihlborg, “The ICP Store model is something we tell all of our customers about. It gives customers more choices when they connect to the equipment and we believe that this is the best way to build a metropolitan area network.”

The ‘ICP Store’ project not only saw the cooperation between ZTE and Wexnet, but also saw the cooperation between one operator and many ISP/ICPs, with many more continuing to get involved.

ZTE Launches the Industry’s First PC-based CPT for LTE Networks

22 October 2012, Shenzhen ― ZTE announced it  has launched the industry’s first personal computer-based capacity planning tool (CPT) for LTE networks, utilizing an innovative concept to overcome long-standing limitations in capacity planning technology, providing operators with a professional and systematic aid for building the highest-performance networks.

Leveraging ZTE’s deep experience in network planning, the 3GPP protocol-based CPT is tailored for LTE networks, and incorporates four technology patents. With a powerful set of system-modeling and simulation features developed in reference to data from real networks, the CPT provides operators with a competitive tool for commercial LTE network deployments. Compared with traditional solutions, ZTE’s CPT offers a more than 20% improvement in accuracy and an efficiency advantage of more than 80%.

 “ZTE’s newly released CPT is based on an innovative concept, and provides a one-stop and flexible capacity planning capability, greatly reducing the difficulty of LTE network planning and improving our customers’ operating efficiency,” said Wang Shouchen, vice president of ZTE. “The tool’s planning accuracy has vastly improved compared with traditional solutions. In the near future, ZTE will also launch other versions based on different network scenarios to meet the customer’s needs.’’

H3G Austria’s Mobile Network Constructed by ZTE Ranked No.1 for a Consecutive Second Year in 2012

29 October 2012, Vienna, Austria ― ZTE announced that its customer Hutchison 3G (H3G) Austria network has come in first place in comprehensive KPI tests that were recently conducted with all the operator networks in Austria by the European telecommunications publication  CONNECT. The H3G Austria network, which was modernized with RAN and core network equipment by ZTE, was placed in the top position, based on the excellent performance of the network.

H3G Austria has seen a year-on-year user increase of 24% in the last 12 months.  In addition, as mobile internet applications grow in popularity, especially applications that rely on social networking services, there has been an increasing demand for throughput capacity, upstream rates and response capabilities of the network.

To meet this demand, ZTE introduced the latest interference cancellation technology, significantly improving the uplink data transfer rate and capacity. Network test results showed that ZTE’s technology enabled H3G Austria to offer an average rate of more than 50% faster upload speeds to customers compared with the second-place network. H3G Austria’s network also offers average download speeds of up to 11.7 Mbps with ZTE’s technology.

The H3G Austria network was also praised in this test for its intelligent handset user experience, offering the highest successful network browse rate and the fastest webpage opening speed.

H3G Austria network has attributed its second consecutive win to the implementation of ZTE Uni-RAN and ZTE Uni-Core solutions. ZTE Uni-RAN solution helps operators accomplish 2G/3G convergence, unified management and maintenance, resource sharing for different systems, and consequently cutting down TCO. ZTE Uni-Core solution supports the seamless evolution from 2G/3G packet core to evolved packet core, and assists operators in supporting unified 2G, 3G and 4G access. ZTE helps operators build a smart pipe that supports service differentiation and traffic distribution.

While H3G Austria users have grown rapidly in the last year, the uplink and downlink data flow of packet data users has doubled, with the help of ZTE Uni-RAN solution and the core network. ZTE Uni-RAN solution enhanced capacity and performance of the network, by applying ZTE’s leading interference cancellation technology when ZTE and H3G Austria upgraded the whole network to DC HSPA+. The application of interference cancellation technology eliminates interference between different users and as much as possible between different channels of the same user. By increasing signal noise ratio, the uplink system capacity is increased, making the transmission data performance close to the industry maximum. In the case of certain high traffic sites, the increase in uplink can be up to 40% using this technology, making the network response faster.

 “Recognizing our customer needs, ZTE continues to introduce leading-edge technology to enhance network capacity and enable operators to provide high-quality networks. Last year we refreshed ZTE’s HSUPA speeds, at present the application of interference cancellation technology can effectively improve network uplink capacity and enhance user experience without changing the network terminal. The third-party evaluation of the Austrian H3G network has ranked number one for the second consecutive year, which confirms that ZTE has a strong technical capability to build world-class networks,” said Xu Ziyang, vice president, ZTE.