  This work presents the broad-band time-averaged spectral analysis of neutron
star low-mass X-ray binary, XTE J1710-281 by using the Suzaku archival data.
The source was in a hard or an intermediate spectral state during this
observation. This is the first time that a detailed spectral analysis of the
persistent emission spectra of XTE J1710-281 has been done up to 30 keV with
improved constraints on its spectral parameters. By simultaneously fitting the
XIS (0.6-9.0 keV) and the HXD-PIN (15.0-30.0 keV) data, we have modelled the
persistent spectrum of the source with models comprising a soft component from
accretion disc and/or neutron star surface/boundary layer and a hard
Comptonizing component. The 0.6-30 keV continuum with neutral absorber can be
described by a multi-colour disc blackbody with an inner disc temperature of
$kT_{\rm disc} = 0.28$ keV, which is significantly Comptonized by the hot
electron cloud with electron temperature of $kT_{\rm e} \approx 5$ keV and
described by photon index $\Gamma = 1.86$. A more complex three-component model
comprising a multi-colour disc blackbody $\approx 0.30$ keV, single temperature
blackbody $\approx 0.65$ keV and Comptonization from the disc, partially
absorbed (about 38 per cent) by an ionized absorber (log($\xi$) $\approx$ 4)
describes the broad-band spectrum equally well.
