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26th July 2004 - ZTE Corporation, China's largest listed
telecommunications equipment provider, has been chosen
by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to
draft two important international standards that will
help to shape the future of the world's next generation
networks (NGN).
Following a meeting of the NGN Joint Rapporteur Group
in Geneva, ZTE will now draft standards to cover the
requirements and framework for crucial end-to-end quality
of service (QoS) architecture for NGN (Y.e2eqos.1) and
a QoS framework for IP-based access networks (Y.ipaqos).
"This is an exciting opportunity to contribute
to the development of the world's communications infrastructure,"
said, Mr Xie Daxiong,SVP,ZTE. "ZTE greatly values
and works with the ITU's international standards and
this invitation is a vote of confidence in our continued
ability and commitment to remain at the forefront of
telecommunications technology and R&D."
ZTE plays an active role at the ITU, having already
drafted eight international standards covering optical
transmission, international security, gateway and 3G
terminals, and five recommendations on optical communication,
IP networks, information security and network management.
A member of all three ITU sectors - telecommunication
development (ITU-D), telecommunication standardisation
(ITU-T) and radio communication (ITU-R) - ZTE is working
to develop tomorrow's networks and services. The corporation
has hosted several important conferences and participated
in more than 30 international standardisation groups,
including the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP),
the CDMA Development Group (CDG), the DSL Forum, and
the Network Processing Forum (NPF).
ZTE is committed to developing new technologies: every
year, for the past ten years, the corporation has invested
about 10% of its revenues in research and development;
almost half of all ZTE personnel are involved in this
area and more than 6,000 of the 17,000-strong workforce
have Masters degrees, 500 have Ph.D.s. The corporation
owns 1600 patents, with more than 90% of these being
for original innovations, and operates 13 research and
development centres worldwide, including establishments
in the Sweden, the USA and South Korea.
About ZTE
ZTE Corporation is China's largest listed telecommunications
equipment provider specializing in offering customized
network solutions for telecom carriers worldwide. The
company develops and manufactures telecommunications equipment
for fixed, mobile, data and optical networks, intelligent
networks and next generation networks as well as mobile
phones.
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