ZTE announced that it has launched a commercial LTE network in Austria in partnership with Hutchison 3G (H3G) Austria.
The jointly built network is based on ZTE’s latest Uni RAN and Uni-Core solutions. It is H3G’s first commercial LTE network. As part of the project, ZTE will provide H3G Austria with LTE/HSPA+ equipment for major cities across the country and upgrade H3G Austria’s 3G core network to support LTE services. ZTE also will provide management and maintenance for the network.
The Austria LTE network was built to meet a rising demand for mobile broadband services in the country. It will dramatically reduce operating expenses and achieve flexible and efficient networking. During the network’s construction, utilization of ZTE’s advanced SON function enabled automatic deployment, transmission, download and activation of various software versions.
This simplified LTE network planning, reduced construction time and manpower and improved performance. Further, ZTE is the first company to make an LTE eNode B support with a maximum uplink throughput of 300Mb and a maximum downlink throughput of 900Mb. This provides the processing capacity needed by a commercial network.
To date, ZTE has won 28 commercial LTE contracts globally, and has deployed test LTE networks in cooperation with more than 90 operators around the globe, including H3G, Telenor and Sonaecom in Europe and Softbank and CSL in Asia.