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Compare the pricing and features of Cisco Catalyst 3750-E switches vs. ZTE ZXR10 5900E switches

Cisco WS-C3750E-24TD-E and WS-C3750E-48TD-E switch pricing vs. ZTE ZSR10 5928E, ZXR10 5928E-FI and ZXR10 5952E switch pricing.

Wed, 12/7/11 - 11:57pm    View comments

I met in New York City this week with the top executives of ZTE (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of the global telecommunications equipment manufacturer, ZTE Corporation.

You might recall the November 22, 2005 Network World report on how Cisco worked with ZTE to win deals in Asia:

Remarkably, ZTE is willing to work with the networking community in order to create a platform that will complement and provide more flexibility for Cisco customers and network engineers.

ZTE's focus is on core Cisco products, the nuts and bolts stuff. Below are side-by-side comparisons between Cisco Catalyst switch models WS-C3750E-24TD-E and WS-C3750E-48TD-E and ZTE ZXR10 5900E switch models:

Cisco WS-C3750E-24TD-E and WS-C3750E-48TD-E switch functionality vs.

ZTE ZSR10 5928E, ZXR10 5928E-FI and ZXR10 5952E switch functionality:

View the test results of the ZTE 5928E switch in the EANTC Carrier Ethernet interoperability test:

ZTE passed all of the EANTC interoperability tests that connected equipment from multiple vendors. Hopefully, the below diagram will help you comprehend the logistics involved when the EANTC team shipped five tons of equipment - more than 100 devices under test from 24 participating vendors - to Warsaw in Poland.

Physical Network Topology

Source: EANTC

A customer deployment of the ZTE 5900E switch:

The ZTE customer's name: Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH

A mobile multimedia provider, 3 Austria had over 1.2 million customers as of August 3, 2011.

Mature leased line clock synchronization solution:

ZTE 5900E switches were introduced in the egress of leased IP lines as IEEE1588v2 Clock-masters to avoid the blind area of leased line QoS, providing a simple and reliable IP clock synchronization solution.

Learn more...
 

ZTE Technologies - December 2011 (page 26):

"In 2010, for the first time in the company's history, the largest portion of its overseas revenue came from the US and European markets. ZTE's year-on-year growth in the two markets was 50 percent, which is 21 percent of its total operating revenue.

"The company's sales revenue in the US touched $300 million in 2010, tripling the total in 2009. Sales in the US are expected to reach $600 million in 2011 and $1 billion in 2012.

"ZTE also ventured into the cloud computing business in 2010 and is expecting over $2 billion in revenue in 2011 from enterprise cloud computing products. Its cloud computing portfolio includes data communications products, enterprise networks, servers and storage products for government networks."
 

Competitor:
Number of employees:	63,465	85,232
Employee reviews:	3.3 rating	2.9 rating
U.S. job openings	Cisco jobs	ZTE USA
Ownership:	Publicly owned	Publicly owned
Stock price chart:	NASDAQ Stock Market	Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Investment analyst forecasts:	Consensus outperform the market	Consensus outperform the market
Financial statements:	Annual report	Annual report
Net revenue:	USD $43.218 billion	USD $10.609 billion
Revenue growth:	+7.94%	+16.58%
Net income:	USD $6.490 billion	USD $490.74 million
Net income growth:	-16.44%	+32.22%
Gross margin:	61.40%	28.52%
Net profit margin:	15.02%	4.32%
Operating margin:	17.76%	6.57%
Return on assets:	7.72%	3.83%
Return on equity:	14.19%	14.30%
Return on investment:	9.88%	10.64%
Dividend growth rate (5 year):	0%	+26.79%
Dividend payout ratio (TTM):	10.14%	26.78%
EPS growth (5 years):	+5.57%	+18.49%
EPS (TTM) vs. TTM 1 year ago:	-12.42%	+19.83%
Cash flow per share:	1.61	1.61
Price/Cash flow per share:	10.67	14.23
Book value per share:	8.69	8.19
Tangible book value per share:	5.13	7.26
Current ratio:	3.27	1.24
Quick ratio:	3.18	1.00
Total debt/total equity:	0.3572	1.32
Total debt/total capital:	0.2625	0.5506

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