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ZTE TECS Cloud Platform earns the prestigious GlobalData Leader rating for three consecutive years

Shenzhen, China, 17 May 2023 - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, announced today that its TECS (Tulip Elastic Cloud System) solution has once again received the full score Leader rating in all six dimensions, according to the latest NFVI / Telco Cloud rating report for 2023 by GlobalData, a renowned data analytics and consulting company in the global ICT industry. ZTE's TECS Cloud Platform has achieved the esteemed GlobalData Leader rating for three consecutive years.  The report evaluated the top six telco cloud platform vendors worldwide across six dimensions: Solution Architecture, Carrier Grade Features, Management, Market Momentum, Performance, and Professional Services. ZTE has once again attained full marks in all six dimensions, securing its third consecutive leader ratings. This accomplishment further showcases ZTE's distinct advantages and robust capabilities in the field of cloud platforms.  According to GlobalData, ZTE's TECS products offer notable advantages in terms of advanced architecture and versatility for various cloud scenarios, enabling operators to reduce costs and ensure seamless evolution. The TECS dual-engine cloud platform facilitates unified deployment and management of containers, virtual machines, and bare metal resources. The architecture supports on-demand switching between virtual machines and containers, flexibly responds to uncertain containerized service models, and evolves towards cloud-native and expands capacity on demand. Additionally, the platform supports scalable capacity expansion and evolution by leveraging existing resource pools, enhancing resource utilization, and reducing time to market.  As per the GlobalData report, ZTE's NEO smart cloud card builds a new computing architecture centered around the Data Processing Unit (DPU). This innovative approach enables offloading and acceleration of computing, networking, storage, and security tasks, effectively reducing the CPU's workload. Consequently, the overall system performance is improved. The NEO smart cloud card finds wide applicability in both CT (Communications Technology) and IT (Information Technology) cloud scenarios. In the telco cloud domain, the NEO card is utilized to offload computing power and manage containers, satisfying the requirements of cloud-native applications with significant flow tables and high forwarding demands. In edge scenarios, ZTE's MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing) solution, built upon the NEO cloud cards, offers plug-and-play functionality, high integration, and enhanced security. This solution facilitates the deployment of diverse cloud resources with varying specifications throughout the operator's network. It also caters to the differentiated needs of enterprises, empowering vertical industry applications. In private and public cloud scenarios, the NEO cloud cards are employed for bare metal cloud management. This implementation allows bare metal resources to possess the performance characteristics of physical machines while retaining the elasticity typically associated with virtual machines. Consequently, enterprises can swiftly migrate to the cloud while leveraging the advantages of both physical and virtual infrastructures. GlobalData noted that ZTE's Cloud Infrastructure Intelligent Analysis System (CIIA) is at a leading level in the industry. CIIA provides users with a one-stop cloud resource pool operation and maintenance solution, including capabilities such as risk identification, fault diagnosis, quality optimization, resource management, and northbound interface. Furthermore, CIIA incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) in multiple scenarios, facilitating the advancement of operational and maintenance capabilities toward level 4 autonomy in networks. To date, ZTE TECS products have been successfully deployed in over 500 virtualized projects across the globe. ZTE has formed deep collaborations with leading global operators and government enterprise customers, successfully penetrating multiple high-end operator markets. Moreover, ZTE assumes significant responsibilities within standard organizations and open-source communities such as ETSI, OpenStack, CNCF, and OpenDaylight. By partnering with industry allies, ZTE strives to build an open and mutually beneficial industrial ecosystem. Their commitment lies in establishing an intelligent cloud platform with exceptional performance, simplified operation and maintenance, and unparalleled security. Joining forces with global operators and industry partners, ZTE endeavors to shape a brighter future.
 ZTE TECS Cloud Platform earns the prestigious GlobalData Leader rating for three consecutive years

ZTE R5300 G5 server achieves a remarkable feat by surpassing the previous world record in the SPEC test

Shenzhen, China, 16 May 2023 - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions announced today that its R5300 G5 server has shattered the world record in the SPEC CPU 2017 test, showcasing outstanding performance. The latest test results, released by SPEC, a respected international organization for performance evaluation, solidify this remarkable achievement.  According to the test results published on the official SPEC website, the ZTE R5300 G5 server has achieved an outstanding performance in the SPECrate 2017_int_peak/base test. It set a new world record by obtaining a peak score of 1,010/977 points, establishing an unprecedented benchmark for the SPECrate 2017 Integer score.     CPU 2017 Test Records on SPEC's Official Website SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) was founded in 1988 as an esteemed third-party test organization responsible for evaluating the application performance of systems. Comprising notable institutions like Stanford University, Tsinghua University, Microsoft, and dozens of world-renowned universities, R&D institutes, and IT enterprises, SPEC's primary objective is to establish, refine, and define a comprehensive set of standards for evaluating server application performance. The SPEC benchmarks are widely recognized as authoritative selection criteria for key industry users in sectors such as finance, telecommunications, and securities when choosing IT systems.  The ZTE R5300 G5 server product, launched in January 2023, uses the latest Intel ®Xeon® fourth-generation scalable processor with a built-in acceleration engine to effectively improve application performance. This server supports a maximum of 120 cores across two channels, delivering strong computing power. With the high memory bandwidth design, the server provides 32 DDR5 memory slots with the rate of up to 4,800MT/s, improving bandwidth performance by 150%. It supports Intel ® Optane ™ persistent memory 300 series (Crow Pass). The new PCIe 5.0 improves bandwidth by 15% and provides powerful hardware acceleration capabilities. ZTE R5300 G5 Server Furthermore, the new R5300 G5 server can be flexibly expanded to provide a maximum of forty-one 2.5" disk positions" or twenty 3.5" disk positions and + four 2.5" disk positions. It provides high-speed I/O interfaces based on the hardware modularization and software platform design, and can be configured as required to meet differentiated requirements in different application scenarios.  The new-generation G5 series products have undergone optimization in heat dissipation design, power module, and mainboard layout. They feature high-performance copper heat pipe heat sinks, resulting in a 15% reduction in thermal resistance. As a result, the measured temperature of CPUs is lowered by 5℃, effectively meeting the heat dissipation requirements even for CPUs with the highest power consumption of 350W in the full EagleStream series.    Moreover, the new G5 series servers are equipped with the liquid cooling heat dissipation technology, employing cooling plates to enhance their efficiency. This implementation enables the data center's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) to be reduced to 1.15. The cooling plates and pipes are securely interconnected, and intelligent monitoring is in place for all the pipes. Additionally, the servers support second-level alarms for liquid leakage, ensuring both environmental sustainability and product reliability in terms of green and low-carbon performance. ZTE adheres to rigorous standards across every stage of the product lifecycle, including design, production, testing, and after-sales services. Every product undergoes over 10,000 meticulous test items prior to delivery, ensuring comprehensive quality assurance. Additionally, all devices are subjected to round-the-clock high-temperature aging tests to guarantee the stability and reliability of the products. This commitment to stringent testing ensures that ZTE delivers products of the highest quality to its customers.  In 2021, ZTE’s previous-generation server product, the R5300 G4X, achieved success by winning two SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark tests. With the introduction of the new-generation R5300 G5 products, ZTE has once again set a new world record in SPEC CPU 2017 tests. These accomplishments serve as a testament to ZTE's leadership in delivering server products with exceptional performance. ZTE's servers not only meet the stringent demands of industries such as telecommunications, finance, and the Internet, but also provide stable and high-quality solutions. They play a crucial role in facilitating the digital transformation of various sectors and building reliable and robust computing infrastructure for businesses.   
ZTE R5300 G5 server achieves a remarkable feat by surpassing the previous world record in the SPEC test
ZTE ranked first for server shipment in China's telecom market

ZTE ranked first for server shipment in China's telecom market

Shipped 175,000 units of X86 servers in 2022 in China, ranking first in the country's telecom market ZTE servers and storage products revenue exceeded USD1.5 billion in 2022, with a year-on-year growth of nearly 80% ZTE servers and storage products have been used in over 40 countries and regions ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, announced today that it has shipped 175,000 units of X86 servers in 2022 in China, ranking first in the country's telecom market, according to the 2022 China Server Market Tracking Report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC). After leading the x86 server shipments in the telecom market in 2021, ZTE has once again become the top brand in Chinese telecom industry in 2022. In addition, ZTE servers and storage products have witnessed rapid growth in multiple industries such as the Internet, finance, transportation, and power. In the financial industry, they have been widely applied in fields such as large banks, joint-stock banks, city commercial banks, insurance, and securities. In the Internet industry, ZTE has become the mainstream supplier of server and storage products for many leading Internet enterprises.        ZTE servers and storage products revenue exceeded USD1.5 billion in 2022, with a year-on-year growth of nearly 80%. According to the latest data released by IDC, the sales and the shipments of ZTE's rack servers rose to the top five in China in 2022. With many years of R&D and production expertise, ZTE servers and storage products have been used in over 40 countries and regions, including five major R&D bases in Shenzhen, Nanjing, Changsha, Chengdu, and Shanghai. ZTE has developed a full range of server and storage products, including general servers, GPU servers, liquid cooling servers, all-flash storage products, mixed-flash storage products, and distributed disk array products. In 2022, the ZTE server automation production line was put into use, with an annual server manufacturing capacity of 500,000 units per year. ZTE has become one of the world's leading server vendors after years of rapid and continuous growth. With its smart computing power, ZTE will collaborate with more partners to keep investing in the R&D of servers and storage products, create higher-quality products, promote the digital development of every industry, and foster the prosperity and growth of the digital economy.
China Mobile and ZTE jointly demonstrate VoNR+ Banking Intelligent Customer Services at MWC 2023

China Mobile and ZTE jointly demonstrate VoNR+ Banking Intelligent Customer Services at MWC 2023

ZTE Corporation , a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, in partnership with China Mobile, has jointly demonstrated the intelligent customer services of VoNR+ remote banking at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. The in-depth integration of VoNR+ technologies with banking services can bring various interactive, visual and intelligent innovative service experiences to banking customers. As the target architecture and solution of China Mobile’s next-generation real-time communication services, VoNR+ introduces key solutions such as applet architecture of new calling, network capability micro-service and integrated media, enabling third parties to realize customized development and create a new 5G characteristic application ecosystem. VoNR+ will bring an all-round upgrade to real-time communication by upgrading audio and video to HD, trustworthy and interactive real-time communication. The terminals type is extended from a mobile phone to multiple types such as wearable devices, home appliances, automobiles, and robots. Real-time communication is a leap from audio-visual communication to full-sensing communication. In the ToC field, it has increased C-end traffic, including ultra-high-definition calls, AI fun calls and communication-free services. In the ToB field, it has enabled thousands of industries and typical scenarios including video customer service, visual menus, and remote guidance. At MWC 2023, China Mobile and ZTE have jointly demonstrated the intelligent banking customer services through VoNR+, integrating innovative services such as enterprise business card, visual menu, screen sharing, remote guidance, electronic whiteboard, and content sharing, with banking business processes. End-users and bank customer service personnel can interact various multimedia information in real time during the entire call process, so that the communication process can be multidimensional. During a call process, various banking services such as "reporting a lost card", "checking the balance " and "investment service" can be performed visually and conveniently. Various identity authentication methods during the process of banking service handling, such as fingerprint authentication, dynamic facial verification, and signature confirmation, can be implemented during the intelligent bank customer services of VoNR+, comprehensively promoting the overall personal service experience and greatly improving the efficiency of bank service processing. Moving forward, with the introduction of more AI and AR/VR technologies, VoNR+ will evolve from infrastructure communications to holographic communications, providing more intelligent and immersive interactive sensory experiences for individuals, and extending scenarios to broader industry applications such as distance education and telemedicine.

ZTE Fit-it-All private 5G core drives digitalisation

Mobile operators around the world have launched industry-oriented private 5G networks, which can be flexibly customised for enterprises of different sizes across most sectors, supporting their digital transformation initiatives. A survey by Omdia found 5G private network deployment is driven mainly by enterprises looking to streamline their operations and rising demand for security, data management and privacy protection. The research company argued 5G private networks can be an important opportunity for operators and their partners to break into new segments by enabling enterprises to implement production automation. With traditional telecoms service revenue declining in China, industrial services powered by 5G networks have become the main growth driver for operators. By end-September 2022, more than 10,000 virtual private 5G networks were deployed, with installations in some 200 mines, 1,700 smart factories and 250 grid projects. Three years after the launch of 5G service for consumers in China, the private network market continues to have huge potential. Rising uptake GSA estimated 889 organisations worldwide deployed private LTE and 5G networks in 70 countries and territories, with 140 networks turned on in the first half of 2022. Manufacturing is the industry deploying the most private networks, followed by education, power utilities and mining. Juniper Research forecast annual spending on global private network hardware and services to reach $12 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $5.5 billion in 2021. To take advantage of that growth, ZTE launched its Fit-it-All private 5G core to meet the diversified requirements of industry, enabling operators to provide private 5G network as a service and build a new 5G digital infrastructure with ultra-low costs, physical isolation, security and reliability. The private-network-as-a-service business model delivers one-stop order-to-service, covering consulting, planning, integration and delivery, which Chen Xinyu, president of Cloud and Core Network Products at ZTE, said helps lower the supply and demand barriers of private 5G services. The service supports 4G, NB-IoT and 5G converged access, and provides special campus functions such as private network voice, messaging, high-precision positioning, deterministic network features and standard industrial applications. The introduction of full automation simplifies operation and maintenance (O&M) with a self-service portal for enterprises. Rising network requirements Private networks are not unique to 5G, with dedicated enterprise networks existing in the LTE era. The emergence of the industrial internet, intelligent manufacturing and demand from a wide range of vertical industries, however, has significantly boosted the stress put on mobile networks. The next-generation networks now feature a range of new capabilities: full cloudification, micro services, NFV, multi-access edge computing (MEC) and slicing. The 5G core control plane also is separated from the user plane, allowing user plane functions (UPFs) to be deployed in a lightweight and distributed manner, and even the 5G core can be deployed in the campus, Chen explained. Together with MECs, he noted the core network offloads and isolates data at various layers, such as for an enterprise or campus, supporting the local application ecosystem. Chen stressed private network construction needs to be closely combined with the service requirements of the client, taking into account the characteristics of each industry, and include equipment costs, network maintenance, security and reliability. He outlined three ways a 5G private network can be built: ·         Virtual private network. Operators develop a shared public network to provide services for an industry through network slices. ·         Hybrid private network jointly constructed by operators and enterprises. Operators lease dedicated base stations and UPF/multi-access edge platform offloaded to enterprises. The core network control plane is deployed in the operator’s network, ensuring not only network service quality, but also the security requirements for application data. ·         Independent private network. To meet the requirements of its own service development or industry rules and regulations, some large enterprises take the lead in building private industry networks. End-to-end 5G networks are independently built by enterprises or by operators. The shift In the early stage of 5G private network applications, it is recommended operators deploy a fully convergent common core for unified access of 4G, 5G NSA and 5G SA, and use a virtual private network to multiplex public network resources and provide private network services through network slices. As 5G private networks becomes more mainstream, operators, vendors, cloud service providers and system integrators will make innovations in network deployment and service modes. Based on the deployment experience of private networks, ZTE can provide dozens of templates that map specific service requirements of the industry to private network design solutions, giving operators the tools to provide the appropriate type of private network. The process starts with the operator working with an enterprise to determine the exact requirements, covering applications, devices, suppliers as well as any licences. The operator then deploys an integrated 5G private network, with O&M support. An innovative service model gives clients a network hosting option, with fees charged for supporting network devices. This mode allows enterprises to avoid the high cost and technical difficulties of deploying a standard 5G private network. Such a model is well suited for live broadcasts or sports events, with customers signing up for 5G services and the service provider paying fees based on duration, bandwidth and latency. Bright outlook ABI Research predicts spending on global private 5G network will exceed that of public 5G networks by 2036. The growth will be driven by new applications applied across all industries running on 5G networks. Chen explained ZTE aims to play an increasingly important role in enabling digital transformation of industries in China and across the world, adding its Fit-it-All private 5G core will continue to evolve. “Technological innovations will be combined with commercial implementations to promote the rapid transition from the test stage to the application at scale.” He added ZTE will work with more industry partners over the next one to three years to combine product innovations with business model innovations to develop and launch more scenario-based private network products and services.
ZTE Fit-it-All private 5G core drives digitalisation

ZTE Turbo Core: maximising value while lowering costs

Operators across the world have invested to fully virtualise their core networks using the cloud to support true 5G services and turned to consumer off-the-shelf (COTS) servers to keep equipment costs down. The resulting decoupling of commercial servers, cloud platforms and applications, however, increases the complexity of system integration. “It also is undeniable an open system requires some compromises in the overall performance of the system and higher requirements for software and hardware configuration,” said Wang Quan, VP of ZTE Corporation. The CPUs of COTS servers are not designed for parallel computing and network forwarding, creating a gap between traditional telco-grade hardware and resulting in low resource efficiency, Wang argued. This means operators face total cost of ownership pressures, such as high investment in equipment and high power consumption, as well as issues in how to improve service experience. When commercial network interface cards (NICs) are used in 5G networks, especially for data forwarding, the forwarding efficiency and quality are not ideal. The industry currently generally adopts the Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology for passthrough, but it is still difficult to stably achieve the deterministic network requirements required by 5G standards, he noted. With the application of 5G technology and mobile edge across all industries, demand for network openness and media processing capabilities has increased significantly. It becomes necessary to introduce heterogeneous infrastructure to increase computing power and reduce the overall amount of equipment used. System security and robustness also need to be comprehensively enhanced. In an environment with multiple network planes, multiple vendors and complex interfaces, the number of vulnerability points increases, and the diagnosis scheme becomes more complicated, he stated. Boosting efficiency To improve resource efficiency and the service experience, ZTE recommends using professional modules to runs professional systems. For example, allow dedicated network chips to handle data forwarding and graphic processing units (GPUs) to do image processing. “Deeply coordinate the flexibility of software and the efficiency of dedicated hardware, and precisely schedule heterogeneous computing power according to service characteristics to maximise the value per bit,” Wang said. He suggests adopting a class of devices with dedicated hardware accelerators or programmable processors, called function accelerator cards (FACs) to speed up functions, such as networking, security and storage. Different types of FACs are introduced into the system for different requirements, such as smart NICs for data forwarding acceleration, data processing units (DPUs) and GPUs. FACs have broad applicability in hyper-scale communication networks, enterprise data centres and edge locations, enabling more cost-effective data centre environments while improving performance. By offloading high overhead functions running in the host to the FAC, it provides stronger dedicated processing capabilities than the CPU, meeting the more stringent requirements of 5G services on latency, throughput and network determinism. After adopting FACs, more CPU resources are available for service processing to improve the performance of a single server. From the perspective of the data centre or the entire network, given the same network load, using FACs the overall demand for server resources is reduced, and the cost of software and hardware is lowered. Turbo-charged ZTE introduced its Turbo Core making use of FACs along with COTS servers to offload high overhead resources, freeing up CPU cores of the server to host more workloads. “It helps to build an efficient 5G core network to provide an enhanced service experience, giving telecoms operators an opportunity to create new value,” Wang noted. He compared its Turbo Core product to a car’s turbo engine: an FAC is a turbo-charger for a network. Part of the workload originally processed in the CPU is transferred to the FAC, such as a smart NIC for processing user plane packet forwarding, and a time-promised communication (TPC) card for high-precision time synchronisation and deterministic forwarding. “This allows professional modules do what they are good at. The turbo-charged core network has higher resource efficiency and lower power consumption, providing users with an enhanced service experience, helping operators expand their service boundaries and boost profits,” Wang explained. ZTE has continued to evolve its Turbo Core with four key upgrades: Turbo Forwarding is implemented by inserting a smart NIC into the server of the 5G user plane functions (UPF) to efficiently forward user plane packets. Compared with the common NIC-based UPFs, the forwarding performance is improved to 200 per cent and the watts per bit is reduced by 41 per cent. Turbo Cloudification is powered by the NEO Cloud Card used in COTS servers to realise virtual-layer overhead offloading and achieve rapid cloudification of networks. Hypervisor is offloaded from CPU to the Cloud Card, freeing up nearly 20 per cent of CPU cores per server. When the application running on the host is attacked, the cloud management platform residing in the cloud card and physically isolated from the host application will not be attacked, making the entire system more secure. ZTE launched the industry’s first TPC card, with nanosecond-level time synchronsation and jitter, helping to provide deterministic network for industry use cases, such as differential protection of power grid and industrial control. The company also introduced visual accelerator card using a GPU to accelerate media processing, allowing operators to improve the consumer service experience. ZTE’s Turbo Core combines software flexibility with hardware efficiency to maximum computing power for 5G network and edge computing, enabling operators to build efficient core networks and achieve the maximum value per bit, Wang concluded.
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