DEC 2015 VOL. 17 ● NO. 6 ● ISSUE 161 VIP Voices AzQTel: Transitioning from WiMAX to TD-LTE Tech Forum Development Trends for Router Technologies Special Smart Operations Topic Jayhun Mollazade, CEO of AzQTel Big Data Mining for Smart Operations 05 CONTENTS ZTE TECHNOLOGIES DEC 2015 VIP Voices AzQTel: Transitioning from WiMAX to TD-LTE 05 Reporter: Zhang Ying Linkem to Expand 4G LTE Coverage 10 Reporter: Zhang Ying Telenor Pakistan and ZTE: One Goal One Team Jayhun Mollazade, CEO of AzQTel 14 Reporter: Pan Xiaolin AzQTel is an Azerbaijan-based telecom company founded in 2005. The company launched its 4G broadband services in October 2010 under the “Sazz” Tech Forum brand name. ZTE TECHNOLOGIES interviewed Jayhun Mollazade, CEO of AzQTel. He discussed AzQTel’s latest developments, the Sazz 4G brand, and the progress of Development Trends for Router Technologies AzQTel’s LTE transition, and also shared his views on 17 By Fan Chengfa the partnership with ZTE. Special Topic: Smart Operations Big Data Mining for Smart Operations 20 By Huang Yuzhu NetNumen™ AOS: A Powerful Platform to Integrate a Unified Portal and Application 24 Virtualization By Feng Huaxing NetNumen™ FMS: Improving Operational 27 Efficiency By Yin Qiaozhi NetNumen™ eFlow Enables Operational 10 Visibility and Intelligence 29 By Yang Yang and Liu Junjie 01 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES DEC 2015 20 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES 14 Advisory Committee Director: Zhao Xianming Deputy Directors: Chen Jane, Xu Huijun, Zhu Jinyun Advisers: Bao Zhongjun, Chen Jian, Chen Xinyu, Cui Li, Fang Jianliang, Sun 33 Zhenge, Xu Ming, Yang Jiaxiao Editorial Board Director: Sun Zhenge Deputy Director: Huang Xinming Members: Chen Zongcong, Cui Liangjun, Han Gang, Heng Yunjun, Huang Xinming, Liu Shouwen, Sun Jiruo, Sun Zhenge, Wei Xiaoqiang, Ye Ce, Zhou Yong Sponsor: ZTE Corporation Edited By Shenzhen Editorial Office, Strategy Planning Department Editor-in-Chief: Sun Zhenge Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Huang Xinming Editorial Director: Liu Yang Executive Editor-in-Chief: Yue Lihua Editor: Zhang Ying Circulation Manager: Wang Pingping Success Stories Ethio Telecom Built an End-to-End Network O&M Management Editorial Office System Address: NO. 55, Hi-tech Road South, 31 Shenzhen, P.R.China By Wen Jun Postcode: 518075 Internexa Builds a WDM Backbone Network in Peru and Tel: +86-755-26775211 Fax: +86-755-26775217 Colombia Website: wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/about/ 33 By Chen Yizhou publications Email: [email protected] AIS Leads FTTx Deployment in Thailand 35 By Xue Ming A technical magazine that keeps up with the latest industry trends, communicates leading technologies Solution and solutions, and shares stories of our customer success Qcell Helping Operators Provide Indoor Coverage 37 By Zhang Yuehong DEC 2015 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES 02 ZTE News ZTE Helps China Mobile ZTE Solutions Celebrated at Launch VoLTE Services BBWF Awards in Hunan Province 29 October 2015, Shenzhen ― ZTE all specifications and requirements. The is pleased to help China Mobile roll out project in Hunan was China Mobile’s VoLTE high definition voice services in first province completed 4G+ commercial Hunan province. network in the country. ZTE’s comprehensive end-to-end “ZTE is excited to work with capabilities enable China Mobile to China Mobile on the successful launch deliver the highest-performance VoLTE of VoLTE services in Hunan,” said services and user experience to subscribers Gong Dehua, vice president of core by evolving and coordinating the wireless, network products at ZTE. “The project bearer, signaling, billing, as well as demonstrated ZTE’s industry-leading O&M components of the network across capabilities in VoLTE, as we provided circuit switched (CS), IP multimedia innovative solutions that deliver high- subsystem (IMS) and the evolved packet quality and robust services to subscribers core (EPC) domains. China Mobile and and enable real-time monitoring 22 October 2015, Shenzhen ZTE successfully completed a large- of network performance and user ― ZTE announced that it won two capacity field test in Hunan, exceeding experience.” awards at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2015. ZTE’s ZandraTM solution was awarded the Best Connected Home Service or Solution ZTE Releases Industry-First Data Center ToR Award. TM and ZTE jointly won the Best Broadband Partnership Award. TM By introducing a brand-new, Switch Series, the BigMatrix ZXR10 5960-H interactivity-focused concept to the home monitoring realm, ZTE’s 22 October 2015, Shenzhen ― ZTE 10G combo interfaces, making it the ZandraTM solution enables people to has released the BigMatrixTM ZXR10 most flexible data center access platform surveil their homes from anywhere, 5960-H, a product series of next- available. anytime. ZTE and TM stared the generation data centre top-of-rack (ToR) Horizontal scalability is the key to cooperation to do research on switches for use with big data and large- ensuring server access due to the large some new technologies in new- scale cloud computing. amount of horizontal services in big data. generation access, such as TWDM The ZXR10 5960-H series comes The ZXR10 5960-H, the data center ToR PON optical extender and DWBA. in six models, the 5960-52DU-H, 5960- switch, has a special design for the open The TWDM-PON system offers 72NL-H, 5960-72DL-H, 5960-64DL-H, service architecture’s (OSA) horizontal 40 Gbps downstream and 10 Gbps 5960-64NL-H and 5960-32LC-H. The data, improving big data platforms’ ability upstream data that can support up to 5960-52DU-H supports up to four 100G to capture unstructured and independent 128 users at 40 km fiber distance. An uplink ports, which is the highest density data. It uses ZTE’s resource operation important feature of the system is the in the industry. The 5960-32LC-H is the system ZXCLOUD iROS to efficiently coexistence capability to maintain world-first ToR switch with all 40G ports achieve the uniform migration of virtual the current ODN network. and panel-based optical and electrical devices and fast service deployment. 03 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES DEC 2015 ZTE News Qualcomm and ZTE Sign New 3G/4G License, Strengthening Long-Term Partnership 3 November 2015, Shenzhen ― ZTE 9-Month Net Profit Jumps ZTE announced that it has signed a new worldwide 3G/4G license agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated. 42% as Carrier Networks The license includes terms that are consistent with the rectification Sales Grow measures that Qualcomm submitted to China’s National Development 27 October 2015, Shenzhen ― ZTE and access systems globally. Revenue and Reform Commission (NDRC) in announced that net profit rose by more from telecom software systems, services February 2015. Under the terms of the than 42% in the first nine months, and other products increased by 45.8%, agreement, Qualcomm has granted driven by increased sales of optical helped by higher sales of video and ZTE royalty-bearing patent licenses network products and 4G LTE solutions network terminal products. to develop, manufacture, and sell 3G to carriers. ZTE was the world’s fastest- and 4G products, such as smartphones, Net profit attributable to shareholders growing provider of wireline broadband modules, and infrastructure equipment, of the listed company jumped to RMB equipment, according to latest data by including 3-mode (LTE-TDD, TD- 2.6 billion (US$409 million) in the first telecom consultant Ovum. ZTE was SCDMA and GSM) smartphones sold nine months, according to financial the world’s second-biggest provider for use in China. results released by ZTE today. Revenue of passive optical network solutions, “ZTE is glad to have concluded increased by 16.5% to RMB 68.5 billion. according to Ovum. a new agreement with Qualcomm,” Basic earnings per share climbed to Under the M-ICT strategy, ZTE is said Guo Xiaoming, general counsel of RMB 0.63. focused on innovations in converged ZTE. “This agreement provides a solid Revenue in ZTE’s carriers’ networks end-to-end solutions integrating the foundation for Qualcomm and ZTE to division rose by more than 22% in the first company’s world-leading capabilities expand and strengthen the long term nine months as the company increased in telecommunications and information relationship between the companies in sales of 4G LTE infrastructure systems, technology to deliver increased value the future.” optical network products, wireline switch to customers. “Qualcomm is pleased to again have reached an agreement with ZTE that reflects the established value ZTE Opens New R&D Center in Japan to Boost 5G Research of Qualcomm’s patent portfolio, supports future collaboration 4 November 2015, Tokyo ― ZTE between Qualcomm and ZTE, and opens a new R&D Center in Tokyo strengthens the relationship between the to focus on the development of 5G companies,” said Eric Reifschneider, and other next-generation network senior vice president and general technologies. manager of Qualcomm Technology The new R&D center will support Licensing. “This agreement with ZTE’s partnerships with operators and ZTE is another important step for our academic institutions in Japan on the licensing business in China, and we deployment of ZTE’s proprietary Pre5G look forward to continuing our progress technology and ongoing research on in concluding agreements with Chinese 4G and 5G mobile communications. device companies.” DEC 2015 ZTE TECHNOLOGIES 04 vIP Voices AzQTel: Transitioning from WiMAX to TD-LTE Reporter: Zhang Ying zQTel is an Azerbaijan-based telecommunications company Afounded in 2005. It provides wireless internet, high-speed broadband internet, and other value-added services in Azerbaijan. The company launched its 4G broadband services in October 2010 under the “Sazz” brand name. These services are based on WiMAX technology. At MWC 2015 Shanghai, ZTE TECHNOLOGIES interviewed Jayhun Mollazade, CEO of AzQTel. He discussed AzQTel’s latest developments, the Sazz 4G brand, and the progress of AzQTel’s LTE transition. He also shared his views on the partnership with ZTE.