Shenzhen, China –  ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of information and communication technology solutions, announced today that, according to the latest “IP Edge Router Competitive Landscape Assessment” and “ZTE IP Edge Router Portfolio” released by GlobalData, an internationally authoritative telecommunications, software and IT service resource firm, ZTE’s intelligent router ZXR10 M6000-SE, full-service router ZXR10 M6000-S, virtualization router ZXR10 V6000 and multi-service packet platform ZXCTN 9000-E have been elevated to the highest rating “Leader” in the overall assessment. Specifically, they have been elevated from “Very Strong” to “Leader” in “System Performance and Architecture” and “Interfaces and Port Density”, while retaining the “Leader”  rating in “Management and Control Capabilities” and “Supported Services”.  

ZXR10 M6000-SE: intelligent, simplified and ultra-broadband, leading 5G cloud network

The ZXR10 M6000-SE series intelligent routers are designed to meet the demands of the 5G, big video/VR/AR, intelligent IoT, and cloud network era. These routers employ an advanced backplane-free orthogonal architecture, along with in-house new-generation high-performance network processors and network operating systems, enabling continuous and seamless upgrades to handle rapid network traffic growth.

Moreover, the routers utilize the AI+SDN management and control platform, enhancing network perception, visualization, and adjustability. They offer support for rich software features such as SR/SRv6, EVPN, network slicing, and high-precision timing and synchronization to provide ultra-broadband, simplified and intelligent network deployment in the 5G cloud era.

ZTE’s cloud-era intelligent router ZXR10 M6000-SE was honored with the “Excellent Product” award at the 23rd China High-Tech Fair (CHTF).

ZXR10 M6000-S: transport various services in multiple scenarios 

The ZXR10 M6000-S series products utilize in-house core components and proprietary ROSng routing operating systems, offering industry-leading SR/EVPN/SRv6/BIER features and supporting the evolution towards a simplified and intelligent network architecture. These products have consistently been working in the industry, excelling in forwarding performance, energy efficiency, and SDN capabilities, serving mainstream operators reliably in backbone, MAN, IGW, and IDC scenarios for a long period.

They are well-equipped to meet the efficient transport demands of 5G, IoT, and cloud computing services. In recent years, the ZXR10 M6000-S series products have consistently held a prominent position, ranking No.2 in the Chinese market. Notably, in China Mobile’s high-end router centralized procurement 2021-2022, ZTE gained the largest share with the ZXR10 M6000-S series. These devices were deployed in transport scenarios including metro core networks, 5GC network clouds, and user plane functions(UPFs) in many cities.

ZXR10 V6000: boosting metro edge virtualization 

The ZXR10 V6000 series products leverage SDN & NFV technologies to achieve control and forwarding separation, software and hardware disaggregation, elastic capacity expansion and reduction, to easy provide flexible deployment of new services and unified control of configuration, operation, and maintenance.

The ZXR10 V6000 is highly versatile and applicable to various scenarios such as vBRAS, vCPE, vCGN, vRR, vPE, and vDC-GW, significantly improving network elasticity and flexibility. These products accelerate the virtualization of the metro edge, thus enabling operators to reduce hardware investment and enhance the Return on Investment (ROI).

ZXCTN 9000-E: open and integrated, flexible multi-service transport

The ZXCTN 9000-E series products integrate the advantages of packet and transmission technologies, utilizing state-of-the-art distributed large-capacity non-blocking switching architecture while offering abundant service functions. These products support SDN and 5G transport, providing carrier-grade reliability to meet the transport demands in various scenarios such as MBH, Metro-E, and FMC.

ZXCTN 9000-E products are designed to support operators in achieving optimal performance and at the same time effectively reducing network construction and O&M costs. In China Unicom’s intelligent metro equipment centralized procurement 2022, the ZXCTN 9000-EA series products were utilized as core aggregation nodes, fully supporting new technologies such as high-precision clock, SRv6, and FlexE.

Moving forwarding, ZTE will continue increasing the investments in R&D to serve customers with higher-quality routers, accelerate digital transformation of enterprises, and help the digital economy to thrive. 

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Speaker Among has adjourned plenary sitting until tomorrow, after none of the 82 Ministers showed up, calling for a meeting with President Museveni over the continued snubbing of Parliamentary business by the Ministers.

Adjourning the House, Speaker Among, said she will have to discuss with the Executive on solutions to the perennial absenteeism of government ministers.

“As you see, this is one of the abandoned Houses and we are wondering whether we still have Ministers; how do we handle the House; Members have issues; how do we handle the House without Ministers,” she said.

On the Order Paper were a motion seeking leave of Parliament to introduce a Private Member’s Bill entitled, the Rainwater (Harvesting and Storage) Bill, and a motion for adoption of the report of the committee on government assurances and implementation on the government assurances to stabilize fuel prices

The no-show Ministers made it impossible for Members to present issues affecting their constituencies.

To find a lasting solution to the absenteeism, Speaker Among said she will have a conversation with the Executive to ensure business never stalls like is the case.

“I am not sure we are going to continue like this; I need to talk to the Executive on this matter; we are going to talk to Executive on this matter; if this House is only meant for Members of Parliament, then let us be told it is meant for only Members of Parliament,” she said.

Rule 25(1) of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament enjoins the Speaker to accord preeminence to Government Business, in the absence of which House proceedings stall.

“Order of Business (1) The Speaker shall determine the order of Business of the House and shall give priority to Government Business,” reads Rule 25(1) of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament.

To augment the centrality of Government Business, Rule 26(1) gives precedence on all the known official days of the sitting of Parliament.

“Subject to these Rules, Government Business shall take precedence over Private Members’ Business on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays,” reads Rule 26(1).

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The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces Contingent under the East African Community Regional Force has received a joint team of researchers from Save the Children and the International Peace Support Training Centre – Kenya (IPSTC) who are on a research engagement at the Uganda Contingent headquarters, Niongera in Rutshuru territory of North Kivu -Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Colonel Michael Walaka Hyeroba, the Commander of UPDF Contingent who welcomed the team said that the effects of the war in DRC especially on the children that has seen consequences of child labour, abductions and forced conscription into the various armed groups which stem from the insecurity within DRC.

According to the Head of the IPSTC research team, Lt Col Japeth Madada Mwasaru said that the exercise targeted EACRF peacekeepers starting with the force headquarters.

Ms Fatuma Ibrahim, the IPSTC lead trainer said that the research was based on six grave violations that the United Nations is mandated to monitor and report on under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612 (2005) namely; denial of humanitarian access for children, attacks against schools or hospitals, abduction of children, sexual violence against children, recruitment or use of children as soldiers and killing and maiming of children.

Officers of the UPDF contingent later had an interactive discussion with the researchers about issues affecting children within the peace and security architecture both as victims and actors in the conflict as enshrined in Article 38 of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Children.

The discussion aimed at furthering the peace and security agenda and also contributing to training and educating of the EACRF peacekeepers engaged in peace support operations about the general management and handling of the children affected by armed conflict.

Rutshuru territory being in a conflict zone for many years, children in the area continue to face numerous challenges that include; abductions, recruitment into militia forces, maiming and killing of children, and sexual violence among others.
The research and knowledge attained by the forces about the management of children in armed conflict will help to guide the Peacekeepers on how to handle children victims/witnesses of grave violations and professional steps to take in protecting the children.

IPSTC is an international centre of excellence in Peace Support Operations (PSO) that conducts training, education and research, informing military, police and civilian personnel in all aspects of peace support operations in order to improve the effectiveness of the response to complex emergencies.

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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has warned politicians, especially members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party against using their own money in politics with the hope of solving all their constituents’ problems.

According to the President, the move is very expensive and depletes resources without creating any significant change to the population.

“As if you haven’t been following political leadership. I don’t know why you use money in politics. That is a very big mistake. I would really advise you that this is wrong, counterproductive and unnecessary. Stop this bad politics,” Museveni said.

The President made the appeal at Kololo Independence grounds while meeting 478 NRM party flag bearers and chairpersons drawn from the 5 divisions that make up Kampala namely; Rubaga, Nakawa, Kawempe, Makindye and Kampala central.

H.E Museveni who is also the NRM National Chairman encouraged members to use the word of the mouth by telling people what they can do using government resources not their own money.

“If they listen and elect you, it will be good. If they don’t want to, you do other things and remain stable in your life. They will come back to you if you convey the message of the NRM. But it’s not good and it’s a very big mistake to use personal money in politics,” the President noted, adding that for all his 63 years in Uganda’s politics, he has never sold his cows to facilitate elections.

“Politics is about diagnosis and prescription. You’re like a doctor who checks for the disease, prescribes the medicine and later the doctor is paid. The sick pay the doctor, not the other way round. What you’re doing is really wrong. Don’t mix family income with politics. I have been in Uganda’s politics for 63 years now since 1960 but I have never sold my cows for politics,” the President further emphasized, calling upon leaders to promote government programs in search of support. He gave an example of the 1.2 trillion Uganda shillings injected in the Parish Development Model (PDM) and the billions of shillings in Emyooga and other government programs aimed at uplifting people from poverty.

He asked party leaders to encourage and promote politics of unity among Ugandans to create a market for goods.

The president was however sad to learn that the party had lost 15 flag bearers since elections and promised to send 10 million shillings condolence message to each of the bereaved families.

The Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Hajjat Minsa Kabanda thanked the President for being an exceptional leader who listens to the people he serves and offers solutions to their problems.

“They also want to go to Kyankwanzi for leadership training. They are our people and very useful to our party. They are ready to stand on our party ticket again come 2026,” she said.

The NRM Deputy Secretary General, Hon. Rose Namayanja appreciated President Museveni for meeting NRM flag bearers in Kampala for the third time in two years. She also expressed gratitude to the President for his stand against homosexuality and all efforts aimed at preserving the culture and values of Uganda.

“We thank you for standing firm for Africa and for our culture and we’re behind you,” Namayanja said.

She also assured President Museveni that the people of Kampala are ready to support the ruling party in the next general elections since they have realised that the opposition has nothing to offer to them.

“This is your army, we have hopes that if they are well supported, they have the ability to help NRM go back to the top in Kampala,” Hon. Namayanja added.

The NRM flag bearers congratulated President Museveni upon celebrating 50 years of marriage with Mama Janet saying it was a big statement in efforts to preserve and recognize the family institution in Uganda.

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A 37-year-old Tanzanian national has been arrested after an operation conducted by the Joint Point Control Unit and seized sixty (60) pellets of cocaine.

Shabani Siriri Abdallah was arrested on Thursday last week following the receipt of information about his intended travel with the narcotic drug to Uganda.

According to the informer, Shabani, who had been previously intercepted in South Africa, had originally intended to fly to Dar es Salaam but changed his flight to Uganda, arriving on August 24, 2023.

Shabani was subsequently detained by a JPCU officer, and during a joint investigation with the aviation police’s anti-narcotics unit, it was discovered that he had ingested drugs.

Further investigations revealed that he flew from Brazil to Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, and finally Entebbe.

The JPCU officer revealed, “During the drug egestion process, 60 cocaine pellets were recovered, and these are currently in the police’s custody. Additionally, the case has been handed over to the anti-narcotics aviation police at Entebbe for further management.”

Meanwhile, the JPCU is a multi-agency unit of Customs officers, Uganda Wildlife Authority officers, and Police officers (from anti-narcotics and Interpol units).

The team implements the Container Control Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Uganda Customs Organization, whose ultimate goal is to curb all forms of illicit trade, including drug trafficking, abuse of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and drug precursors, wildlife trafficking, counterfeiting, stolen vehicles, and money laundering, among others.

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