ZTE Corporation has been named Broadband Network Vendor of the Year in Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards 2010.

This is the second time ZTE has been recognized as Vendor of the Year after receiving the IPTV Vendor of the Year award last year.

"ZTE's broadband products have achieved substantial growth in 2010. They have had a remarkable performance not just in the China market, but also in the Asian, European and American markets," Telecom Asia noted. According to telecoms industry analyst Ovum’s ‘Market Share - FTTx, DSL, and CMTS ports 2010 Q2’ report, in 2Q10, ZTE’s GPON revenues (OLT ports and ONT/ONU combined) grew the fastest year on year among the top 10 GPON vendors in the industry. The report also ranked ZTE second in FTTx (OLT port) shipments on a rolling four quarter basis (3Q09 to 2Q10).

"The award is recognition of ZTE's efforts and achievements in the broadband field," said Mr Qian Qiang, Vice President of ZTE Wireline & Service Product International Operation. "Through continual technology innovation, ZTE has become the leader of the industry. We have put the world's first 10G EPON networks in commercial use, were the first to introduce VDSL2 Vectoring system and also one of the early pioneers to deploy GPON-based mobile backhaul networks. We also achieved a breakthrough recently in North America for DPoE (Docsis Protocol over EPON) research."