Pretoria July 21 (People's Daily Online) - China's ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, unveiled its vertical broadband solution (v2.0) at the fourth Connect To Connect Summit (C2C) on Wednesday in Pretoria, South Africa.

ZTE’s vertical broadband solution deals with the design and construction requirements of national backbone broadband networks, also broadband networks for power, rail transportation, radio and television.

ZTE South Africa CTO Fahad Nisar says in his C2C presentation that construction of broadband networks promotes the development of information within countries, cities and even enterprises which, in turn, imposes new requirements for broadband architecture, applications and management models.

As the world's top ICT solution provider, ZTE launched a series of special solutions, such as vertical broadband and smart city at the C2C Summit. In addition, ZTE discussed the opportunities and challenges occurring during the process of information development within African countries, cities and enterprises with experts from around the world and held workshops on the subjects of "Smart City - Wonderful World" and "ZTE Vertical Broadband Network Solution" on the side of the C2C Summit.

Nasir describes that the ZTE pipeline solution and the application of an overall smart city solution transfers the urban “nerve endings” composed of handheld terminals, cameras and sensors to the control centre through urban infrastructure networks (communication networks, Internet and Internet of Things), building the urban infrastructure networks into a unified bearer network and realizing network interconnection. He affirms that the solution can build a unified platform and set up an urban data centre to analyze and process big data, realizing the growth and extension of the platform’s capability and applications. 

“ZTE pledges to work with African governments and enterprises to build a roadmap for the development of the African ICT industry with the aim of constructing a more efficient and intelligent African continent with the help of smart technologies,” says Nasir.