(Yicai Global) June 24 -- China's ZTE and German telecom operator NetCologne today announced their joint launch of the world's first commercial Gigabit network over G.fast@212 Megahertz profile solution.

It enables NetCologne's residential customers to subscribe to high-speed data internet connectivity of up to 1 Gigabit.

NetCologne eliminates users' fiber-optic transformation process through the G.fast@212Mhz solution provided by Shenzhen-based ZTE, realizing high-speed data internet connectivity of up to one Gigabit based on copper resources of the existing network, which greatly saves network transformation and civil engineering costs, China Securities Journal reported.

NetCologne will start to offer an ultra-high-speed data flat rate of one Gigabit in its commercial network to more than 250,000 residential customers from this month. In doing so, NetCologne continue to expand Cologne's leading position as Germany's most digital city, said Timo von Lepel, the firm's managing director.

"Providing the World's first network on G.fast@212Mhz solution is a giant technical milestone, it underlines ZTE's leading position in broadband technologies and our aim to support NetCologne to be a leading supplier of Gigabit connectivity in Germany," said Sun Jie, Managing Director of ZTE Deutschland.

ZTE has made remarkable achievements in the field of G.fast via continuous investment in technological innovation. NetCologne and ZTE penned a cooperation agreement in February 2017, since when the latter has provided the former with advanced network equipment, including the industry's first G.fast@212Hz profile data process unit in April this year.

ZTE has deployed more than 10 million lines of optical fiber and copper integrated products worldwide. Its G.fast has gone into commercial use in Japan and Germany and been tested or trialed by over 30 operators all over the world.

NetCologne is a German fiber network operator providing telecom services to users in and around Cologne.

G.fast is a digital subscriber line (DSL) protocol standard for local loops shorter than 500 m, with performance targets between 0.1 and 1 Gbit/s, depending on loop length. One MHz is 1,000,000 Hertz. One Hz is the SI base unit of frequency defined as one cycle per second. The unit is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. A gigabit is one billion bits. It is a common measure of the amount of data transferred in one second between two telecommunication points

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