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ZTE DSLAM wins Best Green Innovation award

Tony Chan | May 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

China’s ZTE’s Broadband Universal Access System has been awarded the Best Green Innovation award at Convergence World 2008 at SOFTNET in London, UK.

“Operators are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility towards the environment,” said Zhang Xinyu, director, global market, fixed network management team at ZTE. “ZTE’s DSLAM solution enables broadband providers to radically reduce their carbon footprint.”

ZTE’s 9806H supports up to 96 ADSL2+ lines or 64 VDSL2 lines in a 2U rack and is designed to be situated near the customers’ location, connecting multiple DSLs links to a high-speed fibre backbone using multiplexing techniques. By equipping its DSLAM solution with a passive optical network (PON) uplink card, ZTE has reduced the amount of fibre required – when compared to traditional, point-to-point Ethernet architectures – allowing operators to serve multiple premises using a single optical fibre cable. According to the company, its solution enables broadband operators to significantly limit their power consumption, achieving substantial cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint.

The Converged World 2008 Awards describes the ZXDSL 9806H as a mini DSLAM from ZTE’s next generation IP-DSLAM product portfolio that has been designed to offer a solution to build next generation broadband network.

“This Multi Dwelling Equipment (MDU) can be equipped with different types of uplink cards such as EPON, GPON and Ethernet. Especially for brown field sites the use of PON could save significantly on digging and trenching tasks,” the Awards description continues. “Some operator feedback during lab trials places ZTE ZXDSL 9806H as the best in class in power consumption. ZXDSL 9806H overreaches the European code of conduct on energy consumption for broadband equipment from a power consumption stand point offering up to 40% power consumption savings per port. This not only allows this equipment to be green by limiting power consumption but also offers additional OPEX savings to the operator.”