ZTE has signed a new three years' 100G optical transportation network (OTN) contract with Reliance Communications. The vendor will provide 100G optical transportation gears and services to Reliance Communications for deployment in Pune and Hyderabad during the period. The company will also provide its ZXONE series of equipment to satisfy the multi-service access and high integration requirements for the fourth largest operator in India.
According to ZTE, with mobile networks entering the age of long term evolution (LTE), Reliance Communications India’s synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) was not able to meet the growing data communication demands. ZTE’s 100G OTN solution allows the Operator to quickly develop Pune and Hyderabad’s 100G metro area transmissions and greatly relieve long-term evolution (LTE) bandwidth requirement pressures.
ZTE notes that the 100G OTN supports any access rate from E1/T1 to 100GE, 4-22 client port with smooth evolution, as well as dense and coarse wavelength in one. Additionally, OTN encapsulation supports complete overhead, optical layer/electrical layer monitoring, and unified network management facilitating failure location and service configuration, which effectively improve operations, administration and management (OAM) efficiency.
