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ZTE
to build national network in
Ethiopia: report
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ADDIS
ABABA(July 5 - 6, 2008) - ZTE,
a China-based IT company on Thursday said it was
exclusively developing Ethiopia's nationwide network to cover 14 major
cities in the country, including the capital city of Addis Ababa.
The cooperation marks the company’s continuous success in penetrating
Ethiopia, after reaching an agreement with the Ethiopian Telecommunications
Corporation (ETC) reached last year, Pennet.com reported citing company
representatives.
As per the agreement, ZTE will help ETC establish two separate networks
that will allow the corporation to provide NGN and BTS related network
services by deploying ZTE's GSM bearer network optical equipment,
the report indicated.
“ZTE will play a role in helping ETC to establish a metro network
by deploying ZXMP M800 high-end optical transmission
equipment and an access network by using the ZXMP M600, a CWDM system
with Fixed Service Access Gateway (SAG),” the network of IT
business news and information wrote on its web site Thursday.
ZTE says it’s ZXMP M600 is a highly integrated CWDM transmission
system, supporting 18 wavelengths and a maximum rate of 2.7 Gbits/sec.
It features an open multi-service access model and high flexibility
in consolidating voice and data services.
Moreover, it can be widely deployed at the convergence and access
layers of a large-scale metro network; the backbone, convergence,
and access layers of a small- to medium-sized metro network; as well
as the private network of a utility infrastructure. With its high
deployment flexibility and large capacity, ZXMP M600 helps telecom
carriers lower operating cost, claim ZTE representatives.
"With our state-of-the-art optical transmission solution, we
believe we can provide a smooth transmission route for Ethiopia's
telecom network to help them satisfy their customers' demands for
multi-service transmission within GSM, CDMA, IP, and fixed line,"
the report quoted Han Ling, ZTE's vice president and general manager
of optical network products as saying.
"ZTE is committed to playing a key role in bolstering Ethiopia's
telecom infrastructure, and in return, boost its economic growth."
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