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ZTE eyes $600-m NGN market in India

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Srinivas R

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SHENZHEN, CHINA: ZTE Corp. is aiming to address the next generation network (NGN) market in India, which the Chinese telecom major believes is worth $600 million.

The company is in talks with BSNL, VSNL, MTNL and Airtel for providing NGN platform.

Addressing the media here, Wang Xiang, general product manager, Wired Network Product, ZTE, said that there is over 60 million fixed subscribers in India, which translates to around $600 million worth market size.

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“Some of the operators in India are in transition to upgrade their networks. We are trial testing for some operators. We have changed the VSNL platform to next generation networks. Others are in the process,” he said.

The company is also bidding for Reliance tender for NGN.

ZTE has over 500 next generation network implementation in over 40 countries and is currently looking at India, Brazil and Russia for market expansion.

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“As a trial, we are implementing our next generation network products for one million fixed lines in India,” said Xiang.

For ZTE, the NGN group contributes over 20 per cent of revenues.

“We have filed over 900 patents from this division and is growing at 30 per cent annually,” added Xiang.

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ZTE offers two families of products to address this market. “We have two families of products. First is access network and the second is the call network. In the access network, we have MSG series products and in the call networks we have SS1B series. We are not manufacturing our next generation networks in India R&D center But our India R&D work son service networking space,” he said.

The company competes with Alcatel-Lucent and Huwaei in the next generation network equipment space.

(ZTE hosted the correspondent in China)

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