Telekom Austria Builds Voice Core With ZTE

SHENZHEN, China -- ZTE Corporation (H share stock code: 0763.HK/ A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, is to provide a CS/IMS converged voice network to the Telekom Austria Group. ZTE is realising this project under collaboration with KCC (Kapsch Carrier Com), a well experienced local system integrator. Under the agreement, ZTE will deploy a mobile CS (Circuit Switched) softswitch network to replace the existing mobile core network for Telekom Austria Group in its northern operational districts, including Austria, Slovenia and Liechtenstein. At the same time, ZTE will build a new IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) network in these branches. The converged voice solutions provided to Telekom Austria Group is based on a cloud solution helping to reduce TCO. Using an IMS hosting solution, the centralized IMS core will be deployed to serve various branches of the Group independently, enabling the rapid launch of new services and giving the Telekom Austria Group centralised management and control of its networks. Telekom Austria AG