June 1, 2005 Beijing, China -- Telecommunications provider ZTE will deliver what it's calling the world's largest fixed next-generation network (NGN), under terms of a co-operation agreement announced today with China Telecom. As part of the agreement, ZTE will be the exclusive provider for the carrier's fixed NGN Backbone Long-distance Voice Network program.
The provider says the fixed NGN program will cover numerous first-class provincial domestic centers across China; the network upgrade program will also cover several second-class domestic centers to further improve transmission performance, ensuring seamless data transmission through operation and maintenance management functions, according to the provider.
"Once the construction of the whole fixed-NGN network is completed, the successful access rate of long-distance network services will be largely increased. This will therefore ensure great revenue of long-distance voice traffic," comments Li Ming, director of international marketing at ZTE's network business department.
"Our strong R&D capability, backed by our quality people worldwide, [gives] us experience few of our competitors can match in NGN and softswitch development and delivery," adds Hou Weigui, chairman of ZTE Corp. "We are extremely proud to have been chosen to put this expertise into serving the communications needs of millions of our fellow citizens."
The provider has previously deployed NGN commercial programs in provinces of China for China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, China Netcom, and China Railcom, while winning additional contracts in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Pakistan.