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20th October 2004 - ZTE Corporation of China, a global
supplier of advanced telecommunications infrastructure,
has worked with China Unicom to successfully develop
the world’s first 2 Megabyte CDMA Short Message
Service Centre (SMSC).
In a joint effort with Jiangsu Unicom, a provincial
branch of China Unicom, ZTE has developed a 2MB signaling
link to considerably increase the traffic flow carried
by a single signaling link, thus ensuring the exploitation
of Jiangsu Unicom’s CDMA Short Message Service,
and reducing greatly its networking complexity and running
cost. To operate the new link, ZTE has developed special
functional software to achieve a smooth upgrade and
allow mixed-use of 64KB and 2MB signaling links in a
single SMSC. ZTE’s CDMA Short Message System also
provides a multi-GT function to effectively solve the
problem of uneven signaling load for the multi-module
networking of 2MB SS7 signaling processing system and
guarantee the system’s reliable operation.
“SMS messaging is enjoying explosive growth worldwide,”
said Mr LuPing ZTE’s GM of WDSS products.
“It is generating important revenues for our customers
and helping people communicate to a level that was unimaginable
a few years ago. It was only a matter of time before
the networks began to feel the strain and I’m delighted
that ZTE has taken the initiative – with our customer
– to come up with a solution before any problems
began to arise”.
The news has been welcomed by others in the mobile
market: “The wireless industry requires capacity
innovations such as this by ZTE in order to address
the exponential growth of messaging uptake,” said
Mike Donnell, president and CEO of Zi Corporation, a
text input technology supplier to ZTE mobile handsets.
550 billion short messages are expected to be sent this
year alone in China and this number is projected to
almost triple to 1.4 trillion short messages sent by
2006.
ZTE is one of the world’s leading suppliers of
CDMA systems. It already has a 90% market share in China
across 27 provinces and sees great potential for the
new 2MB link across China and internationally.
ZTE began research into the 2MB high-speed signaling
link in 2001, and had put it into a wide range of applications
in GSM networks for China Mobile and China Unicom by
2003. At the beginning of 2003, considering the potential
demand for the 2MB signaling link to be used in CDMA
SMSC, ZTE started to cooperate with Jiangsu Unicom and
Beijing Unicom in carrying out a series of related tests
and trials.
This is the latest success in this field for ZTE, which
recently launched CDMA SMS-based value-added service
products – such as message group sending and prepaid
data service – and put them into successful commercial
use in the headquarters of China Unicom and its provincial
branches. ZTE is now working with carriers around the
globe to boost the further development of CDMA mobile
communications with its wide range of products, continuous
technical innovation and fast market response.
“The development of the 2MB link is just the latest
example of this capability and a good reason why our
customers can depend on us to meet their ongoing needs
– whatever their market and location,” added
Mr LuPing
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