BEIJING -- ZTE has exclusively won a contract to build five national WDM trunk lines for China Netcom as part of the operator's 2006 long-haul transmission network improvements. This agreement follows the successful construction of five national trunk lines for China Netcom in 2005.

The five new national trunk lines will cover ten Chinese provinces. With deployment of the network, China Netcom will achieve greatly increased network capacity on the backbone layer and improved operational capability enabling it to compete more strongly in the highly competitive Chinese market.

ZTE will supply its Unitrans series ZXWM M900 DWDM equipment to build the network. With the adoption of multiple industry-leading technologies such as ERZ, large power EDFA, enhanced FEC, dynamic power equalisation, distributed dispersion management, automatic compensation of line attenuation and Laman amplifiers, the equipment solves problems such as long-term wavelength stability in large-capacity and long-haul transmission, low signal-to-noise ratio and diversified spares. This enables single span transmission over 300km and super long-haul non-REG transmission over 5000km, delivering high reliability and security over the entire network.

ZTE optical networking products have been deployed by 130 operators in over 70 countries. According to the latest statistics from telecoms industry analyst firm Ovum-RHK, at the end of June 2006 ZTE's long haul DWDM system installations ranked in the top three in the world, and ZTE was the fastest growing mainstream optical network vendor between 2004 and 2006.

ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen: 000063; Hong Kong: 0763)