Telecommunications equipment and network offerings provider ZTE has won a Passive Optical Network (PON) equipment contract worth CNY1bn, to support China’s Telecom’s City Optical Network project that was launched in 2009.
Under the contract, ZTE will provide its ZXA10 xPON passive access system to China Telecom. The new network offering is based on triple-play service which provides multicast and DBA capabilities and supports broadband subscriber access services such as HSI, VoIP, IPTV, and CATV.
Under China Telecom’s plan, approximately 20 million lines of fibre optics broadband equipment will be deployed in order to provide 12Mbps broadband access to more than 70% of the rural areas and up to 100Mbps access speeds for major cities across the country, ZTE said.
ZTE started its business relationship with China Telecom in xPON in 2004. It helped Shanghai Telecom to complete its own City Optical Network project and deploy a FTTx network in the Shanghai World Expo recently.
