China Telecom Newsletter December 2020
capabilities, highly reliable network services, 96-wavelength system. ZTE’s bandwidth
and flexible networking solutions necessary for adjustment has also laid the foundation for
industrial 5G applications. The telecom sector network expansion in the future.
will also need to make improvements from To support transport over a long distance,
end to end, ranging from network planning, ZTE’s Flex Shaping algorithm has powered
construction, maintenance, and optimization to the network to balance bandwidth resources
operations. This will help reduce the costs of and transport capabilities. In addition, the
deploying industry applications. visualization of resources and latency based
Ding emphasized that developing on the management platform has provided
industrial 5G applications is an industry-wide customers with a dynamic network. ZTE has
effort, rather than just carriers’ responsibility. also provided “dynamic rerouting” recovery,
Accelerating this development is only possible enabling the recovery against multiple fiber
when telecommunications integrates with cuts and increasing network stability. Therefore,
other industries. In the recently frozen Release ZTE says the network can address the service
16, 3GPP added an improved standard for requirements of 5G, big videos, DC private lines
broadcasting services and 5G functions like and high-value financial private lines for large
location and ultra-low air interface latency. bandwidth.
Upcoming releases, including Release 17, will
address additional industry needs. BUSINESS
At the end of his speech, Ding stated that
the next decade will be a golden age for 5G. Telecom Argentina closes US$ 100 million
The whole industry needs to have faith, build Chinese loan
the best networks possible for consumers, and Telecom Argentina has finalized an
nurture new capabilities for industry customers agreement to receive a CNY 700 million (around
to maximize the value of wireless networks for US$ 100 million) loan from China Development
a golden decade of 5G. Bank’s Shenzhen branch, said the operator
in a filing to securities market regulator CMV.
FIBER OPTICS The funds will be used mainly to finance the
purchase of telecommunications equipment,
ZTE, China Telecom complete remote said the company.
acceptance test for ROADM backbone It added that the amount granted may
ZTE announced that it has partnered be doubled to US$ 200 million in a number of
with China Telecom to complete the acceptance tranches or credit lines if the company secures
test of a ROADM all-optical backbone network a guarantee from state insurer China Export &
through live streaming. ZTE reports it passed Credit Insurance Corporation.
15 mandatory test items and 14 additional ones Telecom Argentina intends to significantly
in the test. The indexes of 100 percent recovery increase its investment in Uruguay over the
rate for a single fiber cut and 97 percent coming months and explore the possibility of
recovery rate for multiple fiber cuts have proven acquiring Telefonica’s Movistar Uruguay unit,
the stability and reliability of the optical network, according to a recent report.
ZTE said.
Back in 2019, ZTE won the bid for US approves allocation of US$ 7 billion for
the all-optical ROADM network. The project broadband relief, including US$ 1.9 billion
spans 15 provinces in Northwest China. In for removal of Huawei, ZTE equipment
the construction, ZTE has adopted the all- US Congress has approved US$ 7
optical cross-connection technology with a billion within the covid-19 relief bill to support
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a range of broadband affordability and used as a carrier-grade networking platform for
accessibility programs. President Donald the access segment of 5G transport network,
Trump is expected to soon sign the bill into law. which operates as IP RAN transport based on
The relief bill in general amounts to US$ 900 Segment Routing technology.
billion. The funding includes US$ 98 million Under the terms of the cooperation
to implement the Broadband Deployment agreement, the Network Operating System
Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) (NOS) of the platform is based on an open-
Act, a bipartisan legislation enacted in 2020 to source network operating system, which is
create a comprehensive national broadband adopted and integrated by the Company for
map. A total of US$ 1.9 billion will also go use in the intended application scenario. The
towards replacing telecom equipment from platform is designed to ensure openness and
China’s Huawei and ZTE. prevent vendor lock-in, supporting a variety of
The legislation in addition includes hardware implementations that can be based
US$ 3.2 billion for an Emergency Broadband on certain Broadcom DNX series and Centec
Connectivity Fund, US$ 300 million for switching chips, Intel x86 and ARM CPU, non-
broadband infrastructure in rural America, redundant pizza-box as well as redundant
and US$ 250 million for the FCC’s covid-19 chassis platforms. In order to achieve this
Telehealth Program. Qualifying households will level of openness, UTStarcom has provided
receive US$ 50 per month in subsidies to help integration support for extended NOS hardware
pay for broadband services and devices. abstraction capabilities with support of different
Industry group US Telecom said the switching chip Software Development Kits
passage of the bill’s first stage was “great (SDK) and integrated the Open Compute
news,” especially to modernize the country’s Project’s (OCP’s) Switch Abstraction Interface
national broadband maps. “We’ve got more (SAI).
work to do as a nation, but these are bold steps The project’s Phase 1 development,
that will yield significant returns and ultimately which is the scope of the current cooperation
advance our shared national goal of universal deal with the Customer, includes NOS
connectivity,” the group said. integration based on an open-source network
operating system and implementation of basic
UTStarcom Announces a Milestone in NOS functionality including development of
the Network Operating System (NOS) certain software modules that were integrated
Cooperation Agreement with the NOS:
UTStarcom, a global telecommunications • Integration and optimization of NOS
infrastructure provider, announced that for porting to specific hardware
it achieved an important milestone in its platforms with support of Open
cooperation with the Research Institute of one Installation Environment (ONIE)
of the major mobile network operators (MNO) • Hardware abstraction layer to adapt
in China (the “Customer”). The Company different hardware platforms and
completed Phase 1 development and integration chipsets
of the disaggregated network solution and • Basic network functions including
successfully passed the acceptance testing basic L2 and L3 features, L3
with the Customer. forwarding, ACL, QoS, SyncE
The goal of the project is to implement an • Basic Netconf/Yang module for
open and disaggregated network platform that negotiating with 3rd party controller
is based on a white box switch/router and open- UTStarcom’s Senior Vice President
source software and is primarily intended to be of Product & Technology, Mr. Steven Chen,
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