OCT 2016 VOL. 18 ● NO. 5 ● ISSUE 166 VIP Voices Nepal Moves into Digital Technology Tech Forum Key Technologies of IP RAN Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, secretary of MOIC and chairman of the board of Nepal Telecom Special Topic IP RAN SDN Builds Elastic IP RAN CONTENTS ZTE TECHNOLOGIES OCT 2016 05 s VIP Voices 05 Nepal Moves into Digital Technology Reporter: Ye Mu Cumii: Bringing Connected Things and 08 Transformation to Africa Reporter: Zhang Ying 13 Telkom: Making a Great Leap in IPTV Reporter: Pan Xiaolin Special Topic: IP RAN 17 SDN Builds Elastic IP RAN 08 By Zhu Yinan Seamless MPLS for Fast and Flexible Service 21 Deployment By Li Xinyu 25 IP RAN O&M Solution By Wang Chengfeng ZXCTN 9000-E Series: High-End IP RAN 28 Helping Operators Thrive in the Pre5G Era By He Ping 13 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES Advisory Committee Director: Chen Jane Deputy Directors: Xu Ming, Zhang Jianguo, Zhu Jinyun Advisers: Bao Zhongjun, Chen Jian, Cui Li, Fang Jianliang, Wang Xiang, Yang Jiaxiao 17 Editorial Board Director: Wang Xiang Deputy Director: Huang Xinming 35 Members: Bo Gang, Chen Zongcong, Cui Liangjun, Han Gang, Heng Yunjun, Huang Xinming, Liu Shouwen, Sun Jiruo, Wang Xiang, Ye Ce, Zhang chao, Zhou Yong 37 Sponsor: ZTE Corporation Edited By 2 Strategy Planning Department Editor-in-Chief: Wang Xiang OCT 2016 Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Huang Xinming ZTE Editorial Director: Liu Yang Executive Editor-in-Chief: Yue Lihua Editors: He Xi, Zhang Ying Circulation Manager: Wang Pingping Tech Forum Address: NO. 55, Hi-tech Road South, Shenzhen, P.R.China 31 Key Technologies of IP RAN Postcode: 518075 Tel: +86-755-26775211 By Zhang Baoya Fax: +86-755-26775217 Website: wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/about/ publications Success StorieStories Email: [email protected] Vivo Leads the LTE Market in Brazil with IP RAN A technical 35 AUG 2016 VOL. 18 Ȕ NO. 4 Ȕ ISSUE 165 magazine that keeps up with the latest By Wang Quanzhong VIP Voices industry trends, Orange Jordan: Simplify the Lives of Customers communicates Tech Forum OEID: A New Tag Technology in Opcal Wireless Communicaons leading technologies SLT’s Success in Fixed LTE Implementation Special and solutions, and NG-PON Topic 37 A Discussion of NG-PON shares stories of our Evolution Trends By Gao Qin Olivier Wicquart, CTO of Orange Jordan customer success ZTE News ZTE H1 2016 Results Net Profit Rises to RMB 1.76 Billion R&D Investment Ratio Close to 15% 25 August 2016, Shenzhen, China ― ordinary shares of the listed company rose will contribute to the sustainable ZTE Corporation (H share stock code: to RMB 1.77 billion for the six months development of the company. 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063. ending 30 June 2016. Basic earnings per Looking into the second half SZ), a major international provider of share amounted to RMB 0.43. of 2016, ZTE will seek to grow by telecommunications, enterprise and The reported operating revenue for leveraging opportunities that arise as consumer technology solutions for the carriers’ networks business in H1 was the industry restructures. The company mobile internet, announced its results RMB 28.74 billion. Operating revenue will focus on major strategic directions: for the six months ending 30 June for government and enterprise business in-depth development of the carriers’ 2016. The company reported an overall amounted to RMB 4.61 billion. Operating market; value creation in government increase in operating revenue of 4.05% revenue for the consumer business and enterprise business; integration 37 to RMB 47.76 billion. amounted to RMB 14.42 billion. The and innovation in the consumer market, OCTSEP 2016 2016 ZTE reported a domestic operating net cash flow from operating activities and driving business development in revenue of RMB 27.8 billion, accounting reached RMB 2.36 billion, a year-on-year the virtuality, openness, intelligence, ZTE ZTE for just over 58% of overall operating increase of 56.17%. cloudification and the internet of revenue. International operating revenue In H1 2016, ZTE invested close everything (VOICE) sectors. They is RMB 19.95 billion, accounting for to 15%, or RMB 7.06 billion, of their will pursue mutually beneficial growth almost 42% of the group’s overall total revenue in R&D, the largest such with customers, partners and other operating revenue. investment the company has made to stakeholders, to create a beneficial, Net profit attributable to holders of date. Continued investment in R&D digital ecosystem for the industry. ZTE Announces New M-ICT 2.0 Strategy for the Digital, Open, Sharing Economy 25 August 2016, Shenzhen, China ― key trends ZTE believes will play critical they develop products and services. ZTE published a white paper on its M-ICT roles in the ongoing global economic “Guided by the strategies and 2.0 strategy and vision that will guide the transformation to an open, sharing, digital solutions embodied in M-ICT 2.0, company for the next five years. economy. These trends are virtuality, ZTE will drive rapid, sustainable ZTE’s M-ICT 2.0 strategy is designed openness, intelligence, cloudification development of the global ICT to help businesses seize opportunities in and the interconnection of everything. industry,” said Dr. Zhao Xianming, an economy defined by the emergence of These trends encapsulated in the acronym CEO of ZTE. “As we capitalize on the the sharing economy and the vast use of VOICE will drive innovative collaboration VOICE trends, we’ll be boldly trying peer-to-peer networks, and dependent on and concurrent advances across various new business models, while reinventing the pervasive range of cloud computing fields. Over the next five years, ZTE will existing practices to capture major platforms and services. focus on VOICE and the individual and market opportunities for ZTE, our Underpinning M-ICT 2.0 are five interconnected impacts of each trend as partners and customers.” ZTE News ZTE Assists Operators to Construct the Strongest Networks China Unicom and ZTE Sign Strategic 5 September 2016, Shenzhen, Cooperation Agreement on Joint 5G China ― ZTE has announced that its customer, Hutchison Drei and IoT Innovation Austria, has beaten six competitors in the service experience score 16 August 2016, Shenzhen, China on application scenarios, product (SES), the largest service survey ― ZTE announced that a signing demands, service applications, market from a customer perspective, to ceremony for a strategic cooperation development and other related fields. retain the title of mobile “Service agreement on joint 5G and internet They will also look at possible future Champion”. The SES covers 193 of things (IoT) innovation has been directions of 5G and IoT and aim to companies in 25 industries, with held with China Unicom. Shao achieve research results that meet more than 55,000 customers rating Guanglu, deputy general manager of network development and evolution their service experience, and China Unicom and Xu Huijun, CTO requirements for new business serves as a reliable measurement of ZTE Corporation, attended the models. They focus on research of customer service and loyalty. ceremony and signed the agreement. and investment in 5G network In another test organized by 4 Emphasizing their own capabilities, architecture, mobile-edge computing, smartphone magazine and network OCT 2016 in line with national innovation and cross-layer optimization, bearer evaluation software FLOQ, Drei ZTE corporate development strategies, and other key 5G technologies to topped all other competitors both parties will work closely promote 5G development strategies again and was awarded as “Best together in the fields of 5G and IoT and standardization, and also conduct Network”. to foster a sound ecosystem and research and experimental verification Since 2010, ZTE has promote sustainable development of of key IoT technologies and implement modernized the entire mobile the industry. research and development of service network of Hutchison Drei China Unicom and ZTE will solutions and products to promote Austria, including its 2G/3G/4G/ work together to develop cooperative technological development and CN. In 3rd party network projects and conduct research industrial cooperation. performance tests over the past few years, Hutchison Drei Austria consistently comes out as the top performer. It topped the network ZTE Completes Phase-1 5G Testing performance evaluation for the first time in 2011, and recorded 29 August 2016, Shenzhen, China user shared access, new waveforms, another first in 2012. In September ― ZTE announced the successful and MIMO. 2015, the 3rd party consultant completion of phase-1 tests of key company OpenSignal organized 5G wireless technologies as part of a network evaluation on 183 LTE China’s 5G testing. The company networks, among which Hutchison took the lead in verifying key 5G high Drei Austria network ranked one and low frequency technologies, and of the top 10; and in the same year, passed all tests of multiple key air it topped the CONNECT test in interface technologies, including high- Austria and ranked number two in frequency communications, multi- 10 operators of the DHCA area. vIP Voices 57 OCTSEP 2016 ZTEZTE Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, secretary of MOIC and chairman of the board of Nepal Telecom Nepal Moves into Digital Technology Reporter: Ye Mu vIP Voices inistry of Information and areas where MOIC is serious. Communications is governmental body of Nepal that manages postal What are some major milestones that Nepal services, telecommunications, Telecom has achieved? broadcasting, press & information and film development in Nepal Telecom is a state-owned telecom service Mthe country. Nepal Telecom, a state owned provider. It has been providing almost all licensed telecommunication service provider in Nepal, is the sole telecom services in Nepal and serving all parts of provider of fixed line, ISDN and leased-line services the country. From its inception, started with magneto with more than 10 million users in Nepal.