ZTE announced it has secured around 75% of Thai operator True Corporation's Beyond-100G backbone WDM network upgrade project.
ZTE will provide equipment for a 100G/400G backbone DWDM network to allow the operator to improve its network capacity and grow its 3G, LTE, fixed network and other operations.
With the deployment, True aims to develop capabilities including ultra-large capacity OTN cross-connection, intelligent scheduling of optical networks and ultra-long-distance transmission.
ZTE has been contracted to build three of the networks under the project. The company will supply software-defined optical networking technology including modulation and coherent reception technology, its digital signal processing algorithm and third-generation soft decision forward error correction.
The project will also support the embedded optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) solution to facilitate real-time monitoring of fiber parameters and fault points in the existing network.
Research firm Ovum last year estimated that ZTE is the world's second largest vendor in the optical network market by market share. The vendor has deployed a total length of 300,000km of network fiber.