Telecom network vendor ZTE today said its ZTE Elastic SPTN solution offers the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to existing public telephone networks (PTNs).
The ZTE Elastic SPTN solution, announced today, is aimed at delivering the latest high demand applications and services.
Zhao Fuchuan, general engineer of ZTE Bearer Networks, said: “It protects the customer’s existing investments and enables brand-new services and open networks. The open architecture will provide customers with a powerful support platform for service innovation and application-based data stream operation.”
The company said ZTE Elastic SPTN creates an open network which enables the bearer network to deliver applications and services by integrating IT and PTN technologies to create an open and flexible next-generation PTN system.
ZTE’s Elastic SPTN solution is designed to reduce the technical obstacles in combining SDN and existing PTN networks. Instead of changing the PTN forwarding devices in the old network, ZTE uses SDN intra-domain and inter-domain controllers to simplify the evolution of the PTN to the SPTN.
This solution enables applications such as large customer services to fully access a network’s capability. The customer can apply for services online using APP (advanced program-to-program) services. The network topology and resource virtualization services of the SDN controller enable fast service composition.
In addition, ZTE Elastic SPTN provides a nested controller solution, through which customer services can be connected and scheduled automatically through local networks, provincial backbone networks and national backbone networks.
Baburajan K
editor@telecomlead.com
