ZTE releases industry's first large-capacity OTN cluster product

Issued by Blain Communications for ZTE Corporation South Africa
Johannesburg, 27 Sep 2018

ZTE South Africa has announced that ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, has today released the industry's first large-capacity OTN cluster product supporting non-blocking electrical cross, at the PT/EXPO COMM CHINA 2018.

This product is applied to large-capacity service scheduling nodes, such as metro cores and backbones, and is capable of satisfying the requirements of the future network for ultra-large bandwidth and flexible scheduling of transport devices.

Featuring flexible service scheduling among multiple sub-racks without adding a new board, ZTE's non-blocking electrical cross OTN cluster product is capable of effectively relieving the pressure of power supply and power consumption in the backbone equipment room.

Also, it boasts great support to the non-blocking connection among all sub-racks, thereby greatly reducing network planning complexity and simplifying operation and maintenance.

Ranking number one in the industry, the product's cross capacity can be extended to 384T, fully satisfying the massive network service scheduling requirements of future network core nodes.

Meanwhile, this product supports SDN intelligent open architecture and VC/packet functions, echoing the future network evolution direction and enabling the unified multi-service transport.

By means of the silicon/optical integration technology, ZTE's non-blocking electrical cross OTN cluster product adopts large-performance low-power chips and optical components developed by ZTE itself, greatly reducing power consumption while saving operation and maintenance costs for customers.

As the industry's leading manufacturer of optical communication devices, ZTE continuously invests in the R&D of new technologies and products for optical transport networks. By virtue of the advantages in technologies and solutions, ZTE's OTN products have been deployed on a large scale in the world, over 400 ZTE 100G/beyond 100G networks deployed, with ZTE's total fibre length reaching 400 000+ kilometres.

According to Ovum's latest report, ZTE ranks in the top two in terms of the global OTN switching market shares, and ranks number one in terms of the access WDM market share.

ZTE South Africa

ZTE South Africa is a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. ZTE South Africa is dedicated to making quality communications technology accessible to all. The company draws on more than 25 years of experience and research investment to deliver smart, affordable, quality choices for infrastructure and mobile data device customers nationwide.

For more information, visit www.zte.com.cn.

ZTE

ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, carriers, companies and public sector customers. As part of ZTE's strategy, the company is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and IT sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE's products and services are sold to over 500 operators in more than 160 countries. ZTE commits 10% of its annual revenue to research and development and has leadership roles in international standard-setting organisations. ZTE is committed to corporate social responsibility and is a member of the UN Global Compact. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn. Know more about SDN/NFV: www.sdnfv.zte.com.cn, www.openlab.zte.com.cn.

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