SWAP Solutions

In a mature telecom market, operators face fiercer competition and can only satisfy expanding requirements of end users with continuous network evolution and modernization, to effectively utilize and protect their investment and keep its leadership among their counterparts.

ZTE has always been concerned with the challenges and requirements faced by the customers. As one of world’s leading suppliers, ZTE is able to provide the optimum solution suitable for your needs. ZTE offers fast and low-cost swap solutions integrating the state-of-the-art high-performance SDR base stations suitable for various scenarios. Solutions are customized for customers in terms of the whole network, locality, cluster, and base stations to accommodate different networks. With any of the solution, ZTE will realize the swap in a quick and low-cost manner while ensure the stability, security and satisfactory KPIs of the network.

Figure 1. ZTE’s network swap principles

(1) Whole network

ZTE is able to provide whole-network swap and segmented cutover. ZTE’s swap strategies have taken into account the reasonable sequence of core networks, access networks, and access networks of different standards. The whole-network swap solutions offered by ZTE are integrated solutions from planning to design and FAC.

(2) Regional solutions

According to the priorities designated by the customers to different regions, ZTE will develop regional SWAP solutions to appropriately allocate the schedule and resources.

(3) Cluster

ZTE has established a complete set of cluster swap processes to ensure security and timeliness of cluster swap. Generally, the sequence of cluster swap is from low voice traffic areas to high voice traffic areas and from suburban areas to urban areas, to ensure network security.

(4) Base station

ZTE’s swap solutions for base stations take into account all factors, such as spaces, power supply, transmission and antenna and feeder systems of base stations. Optimum swap solutions are in place for the models of different base stations, covering all currently available scenarios of base stations and equipment rooms. ZTE’s process of swap of individual base stations has been proved effective in many networks.

• Customized swap solutions: According to the priorities designated by the customers to different regions, ZTE will develop regional swap solutions to appropriately allocate the schedule and resources.
• Meticulous implementation plans: ZTE will designate experienced experts, provide sufficient preparatory work, and exercise vigorous risk management.
• Professional project management: Strict and all-inclusive project management guarantees the successful implementation.
• Quick optimization: ZTE’s has praiseworthy capability of network optimization, ensuring the KPIs of the new network will outperform the original network, guarantees the quality of the network and engineering work, and provide more pleasant experience to end users.
• Low cost: Advanced SDR base stations can not only protect your investment and realize seamless network evolution, but also reduce you costs of investment and operation. During the swap, the equipment of existing base stations and/or equipment rooms will be utilized to the greatest extent to further reduce costs.

• Smooth evolution, quick upgrading, and networks of new performance and high quality
• Improved user experience and user satisfaction, and lowered churn rates
• Reduce operation costs, and more efforts to be focused on future development