ZTE Winsbest Core Network Product Award at 5G World Summit for Its Vcn

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ZTE winsBest Core Network Product Award at 5G World Summit for its vCN

30 June 2016, Shenzhen, China– ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that its cloud-based core network (CN), vCN, won the Best Core Network Product award at the 5G World Summit 2016 in London.

As an important component of the Cloud UniCore solution, the virtualised core network (vCN) solution adopts a low-coupling, stateless and hierarchical design. Hosted in cloud storage, user data is not bound with service processing. Separated from service logic, public modules become universal components. The service processing control plane is separated from the user plane, achieving flexible deployment. The vCN product has the characteristics of rapid scalability, quick new service importing, low service time delay and carrier-class reliability.

Following hot on the heels of ZTE's integrated CN gateway productxGW,winning the Best LTE Core Network Product award at the LTE World Summit 2014, ZTE's vCN product winningthis award, fully demonstratesZTE’sinnovation capability and leading position in the mobile CN and cloud-based CN fields.

Mr. Liu Jianhua, general manager of ZTE core network products, said that: "ZTE's vCN fully satisfies 5G network and IoT requirements. Based on acloud-based vCN, network operators can reconstruct networks and open network capabilities, making network operation automatic and programmable and meeting the customised requirements of multiple IoT applications in the 5G era.Considering 5G development requirements, ZTE's Cloud Works platform as a service (PaaS)isbased on modularisation,microservicesand fully open network capabilities based on the vCN and Cloud UniCore,providing a friendly development environment and attracting a lot of developers to participate in service innovation."

To promote the openness and standardisation of cloud-based networks, ZTE has joined more than 70organizations for standardisation, including 3GPP, ETSI, OPNFV, and OpenStack, and has collaborated with major manufacturers in corresponding industries.ZTE has established partnerships with many major network operators including VimpelCom in Russia, China Mobile, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Telekom Austria to promote business transformation. To date, ZTE's cloud-based CN has won more than 50 commercial and proof of concept (PoC) offices.

About ZTE

ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, carriers, companies and public sector customers. As part of ZTE’s M-ICT strategy, the company is committed to provide customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE’s products and services are sold to over 500 operators in more than 160 countries. ZTE commits 10 per cent of its annual revenue to research and development and has leadership roles in international standard-setting organizations. ZTE is committed to corporate social responsibility and is a member of the UN Global Compact. For more information, please visit