ZTE Show s Compliance w ith the MSF Release 3 Architecture

July 23,2007,Shenzhen,China-ZTECorporation,a leading g lobalp roviderof telecommunications equipment and network solutions,announced today thatafterextensive tests,its IMS p roduc tportfolios support the MultiService Forum（MSF）R3"NGNGuidelines"and comp ly w ith the MSF Release 3 Architec ture.ZTE,one of themostac tivemembers ofMSF,began its G lobalMultiservice Interoperability（GMI）testing atVerizon's lab inWaltham,Massachusetts in October2006.

In add ition to the supportofMSFarchitecture,ZIMSTM,the IMS solution from ZTE,focuses on service creation and fixed-mobile convergence,and com p lies w ith 3GPP,3GPP2 and TISPAN standards.This end-to-end solution encom passes term inal,access,core and service p latform s.

The GMIProg ram,initiated by the MSF,p rovides an opportunity to put the com ponents together in amulti-vendor,end-to-end network dep loymentscenario,and validates the current release of the architec ture.The GMIeventin 2006（GMI2006）,jointly hosted by five of the top international carriers-British Telecom,Korea Telecom,NTT,Verizon and Vodafone-and The University ofNew Ham pshire Interoperability Laboratory,focused on testingmulti-vendor interoperability to achieve fixed mobile convergence supporting the IMS service framework.