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China Telecom DCI WDM Centralized Procurement: 5 Vendors Win Bids! Industry-First Optical-Electrical Decoupling Networking

Time: 2024-08-22
        China Telecom has issued the Announcement of Successful Bid Candidates for China Telecom's New Metro WDM (2024) Centralized Procurement Project. For the DCI-BOX WDM equipment, 5 vendors won the bids, with the industry-first requirement for WDM optical-electrical decoupling, which is of great significance!
        Based on the 2023 pre-qualification announcement, the procurement scale is as follows:
• Approximately 1,340 sets of optical layer equipment, 1,900 electronic racks, and 3,400 OTU (Optical Transponder Unit) boards.
        A total of 5 vendors won the bids, with detailed results shown in Table 1 (Note: The table lists 6 vendors, which is inconsistent with the "5 winning vendors" mentioned in the announcement; the translation retains the original information without modification):
Table 1 Bid Winning Results
Vendor
Winning Amount (10,000 RMB)
Overall Share
H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
5557
30.7%
Ruijie Networks Co., Ltd.
5415
29.9%
Maipu Communication Technology Co., Ltd.
3494
19.3%
FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd.
1710
9.4%
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
1104
6.1%
Anhui Wantong Post & Telecommunication Co., Ltd.
818
4.5%
• Nokia Bell Shanghai Co., Ltd. ranked first and was also a winning vendor in China Telecom's previous DCI WDM centralized procurement. (Note: This is inconsistent with the vendor ranking in Table 1; the translation retains the original information.)
• Guangdong Jiubo Technology Co., Ltd. ranked second with the lowest quotation. Raisecom Technology Development Co., Ltd. ranked third. Both are new entrants in this procurement.
• The official announcement did not release specific winning shares. However, according to media reports, the 5 winning vendors have relatively balanced shares: 30%, 25%, 20%, 15%, and 10% respectively.
Notably, this is China Telecom's second large-scale centralized procurement of DCI-BOX WDM equipment. Compared with the previous one, there are two major changes:
• A new type of board card is added, enabling more flexible service access to better adapt to metro networking needs. The configuration includes 100G + 10×10G on the client side and 200G on the line side. The client side supports seven types of service access: 100GE, OTU4, 100GE FlexE, 10GE-LAN, OTU2, STM-64, and 10GE-WAN.
• On the basis of continuing to require open interfaces, the requirement for optical-electrical decoupling is put forward, mandating that optical and electrical layer equipment from different manufacturers support mixed networking.
        This is the first large-scale commercial application of WDM optical-electrical decoupling in metro networking. It will break the nearly 20-year networking model established since the advent of WDM technology and reshape the WDM network architecture!
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