India’s Idea Cellular has contracted ZTE and other vendors to deploy a 100G WDM backbone and metro area network (MAN) for the operator.
ZTE announced it has secured a 95% market share in the MAN project, and will deploy an OTN device with ultra-large cross-connect capacity.
Idea Cellular is upgrading its existing transport network from a 10G system to a 10G-100G hybrid transport system to ensure it is able to meet the exponential growth in demand for traffic for its mobile services.
The solution ZTE will deliver will cover all scenarios from the edge aggregation layer to the core backbone layer to meet Idea Cellulars’ requirements for transparent transmission, flexible scheduling, aggregation processing of mass data services and service management monitoring.
Idea Cellular is India’s third largest mobile operator with around 189 million subscribers. The company provides GSM, UMTS and FDD-LTE services India-wide.