Premium GPON Residential Gateways integrates Superior 4x4 Wi-Fi for Whole Home Coverage

Fremont, Calif. – April 10, 2017 – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions and Quantenna Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTNA), a leading provider of high performance Wi-Fi solutions, today announced a new high end GPON product that integrates Quantenna’s award-winning 4x4 802.11ac Wave 2 QSR1000 chipset. This new gateway is targeted at service providers worldwide.

As fiber network speeds continue to increase, gateways have to keep on evolving by supporting the latest generation of GPON as well as state of the art Wi-Fi for whole home coverage. The new product line offers greater bandwidth to meet full-service access and multi-scenario requirements, and provides carrier-class QoS. ZTE is the leading Chinese telecom equipment maker and provides its products and solutions to operators across 160 countries.

“We are thrilled to work with Quantenna to provide premium networking devices to our customers,” said Huang Fuzong, vice president, Fixed Product Line at ZTE. “This strategic collaboration is one of our initiatives to raise our brand awareness by providing a new range of premium products with Quantenna’s high end Wi-Fi.”

“At Quantenna one of our key goals is geographical expansion,” said Lionel Bonnot, senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development at Quantenna. “We are excited to team up with ZTE to deliver our product to new service providers.”