Edited by Lu Dong).
After three years of hard work by the industry, 5G-A has moved from vision to reality, and 2024 will also become the first year of 5G-A commercialization. The so-called 5G-A is also called 55G is a technical upgrade from 5G to 6G. Compared with 5G, 5G-A can achieve a 10-fold increase in bandwidth capabilities, and has advanced features such as passive IoT, communication sensing, and space-ground convergence communication, which will open up more space for 5G applications on the B-end side.
At Mobile World Congress (MWC 2024), which opens in Barcelona on February 26, 5G-A is also at the heart of the agenda.
During the exhibition, Huawei, a leading communications company, showcased a full range of 55G product solutions, including 5G-A, F5G-A, Net55G, etc. At the same time, Huawei has successively released the communication model, 55G intelligent core network solution, three new products to support operators to build F5G-A all-optical target network, Net5A full range of 5G solutions, etc., comprehensively demonstrate the strength of leading the communications industry.
The first large-scale model in the communications industry.
During MWC24 Barcelona, Yang Chaobin, Director of the Board of Directors and President of ICT Products & Solutions, Huawei unveiled the first large-scale model in the communications industry. According to him, Huawei's communications model provides key intelligent technical capabilities, aims at service innovation and O&M efficiency improvement, promotes revolutionary improvement of network productivity, and achieves the goal of intelligence in the 5G-A era. Based on more than 30 years of industry knowledge and experience, Huawei has built the first large-scale model in the communications industry.
Yang Chaobin, Director of the Board of Directors and President of ICT Products & Solutions, delivered a keynote speech.
Yang Chaobin pointed out, "Huawei's communications model gives full play to the advantages of intelligent technology and provides two types of application capabilities: role-based copilots and scenario-based agents, helping operators empower employees and improve user satisfaction, which will ultimately improve network productivity in an all-round way." "Huawei's communications model supports operators' intelligent goals, provides intelligent language interaction capabilities for different roles, and improves employees' knowledge and work efficiency. For different O&M scenarios, it provides agent applications, analyzes and disassembles complex processes, and orchestrates operation plans to ensure user experience and satisfaction.
Huawei's communication model is gradually applying the value of intelligence. Yang Chaobin shared the typical scenario practice of Huawei's communication model at the conference. In the agile service provisioning case, the multi-modal accurate evaluation of the number release assistant realizes fast user account issuance. In the user experience assurance case, multi-objective experience assurance is achieved through the optimization ability of the large model. In the assisted troubleshooting scenario, cross-process quality analysis and dialogue-assisted processing significantly improve the fault handling efficiency.
The world's first 55G intelligent core network.
During MWC24 Barcelona, Gao Zhiguo, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Core Network Product Line, released the world's first 55G intelligent core network solution. 2024 is 5The first year of 5G commercialization, 5The 5G intelligent core network has endogenous service intelligence, network intelligence, and O&M intelligence, enabling the realization of network business value.
Gao Zhiguo, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, delivered a keynote speech.
Business intelligence reshapes call profitability. In 2023, the new call has been deployed in 31 provinces in China, supporting 50 million users, and has been widely verified in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and other regions, and is planned to be commercialized in 2024. Gao Zhiguo said, "Huawei's industry's first new call-A has officially entered the era of multimodal communication through continuous upgrades of intelligent capabilities and DC (Data Channel) interaction capabilities, helping operators reconstruct their services. At the same time, Huawei's MCF (Media Control Function) real-time voice-driven digital human component relies only on voice input during calls, and real-time rendering drives thousands of people, so that enterprises can have their own image ambassadors as corporate brand business cards in the future.
Network intelligence to realize experience monetization and differentiated operation. Huawei has launched the industry's first Intelligent Personalized Experience (IPE) solution to help operators upgrade their experience benefits from the traffic management model to the best of the best, and achieve differentiated experience management.
With the increase of large-stream services (such as 2K 4K HD, 2K 4K live streaming, and micro-burst elephant streams), large-stream services are prone to exceed the single-core load in one VCPU, resulting in service packet loss. Gao Zhiguo said, "Huawei has launched the industry's first Intelligent UDG product to achieve the ultimate ubiquitous 10 Gigabit experience. ”
O&M intelligence ensures high network stability and efficiency. Based on the multi-modal large model of O&M, Hongtu O&M experts (DAE) reconstruct the cloud-based O&M mode to reduce the burden and increase the efficiency of network O&M: from the high-level expert + tool model to the DAE + human-assisted intelligent center mode, from 100% manual work order processing to 80% work order automatic processing, from manual decision-making to intent-driven visual O&M, from the 5-year training cycle of a single expert to the weekly training and update of the multi-modal large model of O&M.
Three new all-optical products have opened the first year of F5G-A commercialization.
During MWC24 Barcelona, Chen Banghua, President of Huawei's Optical Product Line, released the industry's first OTN product for data center scenarios, the Optix OSN 9800 K36, the first intelligent OLT product, the OptixAccess MA5800T, and the first FTTR+X product, Huawei IFTTR Starlight F50. The three new products will support global operators in building F5G-A all-optical target networks, accelerate the development of 10 Gigabit ultra-broadband, and usher in the first year of F5G-A commercialization.
Chen Banghua, President of Huawei's Optical Product Line, released three new all-optical products.
In November 2023, ETSI released the F5G Advanced standard, and Huawei has worked with leading global operators to innovate F5G-A, and key F5G-A technologies and products such as Wi-Fig PON, 400G, 800G, and OXC have been widely used. 10 Gigabit connectivity is the cornerstone of supporting the popularization of smart applications, and many countries and regions around the world have released 10 Gigabit development plans to start the construction of 10 Gigabit Cities.
To promote the further development of F5G-A, Chen Banghua, President of Huawei's Optical Product Line, pointed out that for the development of 10 Gigabit ultra-broadband services, operators need to build F5G-A all-optical target networks with "1+3+4" core features, that is, around one network goal: 10 Gbps ultra-broadbandThree network capabilities are realized: 10Gbps ubiquitous access, 1 millisecond ultra-low latency of metro network, and 99 backbone network9999% ultra-high reliability;Four network architectures are established: 400G backbone network and 800G OTN connection data center, 100G OTN extension of metropolitan area network to sites, 50G pon of access network to homes and enterprises, and 10 Gigabit connectivity to each room.
net5.A full range of 5G solutions.
During MWC24 Barcelona, Wang Lei, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, launched Net5A full range of 5G products and solutions.
He said that the vigorous development of ultra-broadband applications such as immersive terminals and AIGC has brought new opportunities for operators' business growth, and at the same time, networks need to continue to evolve for the future. In 2023, Huawei and industry partners will work together to define Net5The 5G target network architecture includes key capabilities such as ubiquitous 10 Gigabit access, 400 GE converged bearer, hyper-converged data center, and network autonomy and self-optimization. This time, the revolves around the theme of "net55G Brings Reality to Inspire New Growth", Huawei released four major solutions, including mobile bearer, enterprise campus, converged bearer, and data center network, to fully support operators' business success.
Wang Lei, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, released Net5A full range of 5G solutions.
During the MWC24 Barcelona exhibition, Huawei also released eight innovative 5G-A practices, helping global operators build 5G-A networks based on their own network conditions in multiple ways. Cao Ming, President of Huawei's Wireless Network Product Line, said: "With all the elements of the industry readily available, we have officially entered the first year of 5G-A commercialization. Huawei's full range of 5G-A series solutions help global operators move toward 5G-A in all bands and multiple paths with two core capabilities, 'Native GiGa' and 'Native Green'. ”
Cao Ming, President of Huawei's Wireless Network Product Line.
Three innovative data storage solutions.
The rapid development of AI models will fully activate the value of data assets and promote the arrival of the era of "data awakening".
In the AI era, data infrastructure construction faces two major challenges. First of all, in order to refine data into knowledge, independent and scattered data will be woven and aggregated into AI data factories for value mining, which puts forward higher requirements for the mobility of data elements. In addition, the average retention time of AI annotated data and model data is more than 3 years, and some valuable corpus data even needs to be stored permanently.
To address these challenges, during MWC24 Barcelona, Zhou Yuefeng, President of Huawei's Data Storage Product Line, released three innovative solutions for global operators: AI data lake, all-scenario data protection, and DCS full-stack data center, to help operators build a leading data infrastructure in the AI era and enable service innovation.
Zhou Yuefeng, President of Huawei's Data Storage Product Line, released a series of innovative solutions.
At the same press conference, Xun Su, President of Huawei's Global Technical Service Dept, released a series of ICT service and software digital intelligence solutions, injecting new AI technologies into new solutions such as intelligent connectivity integration, intelligent computing integration, intelligent O&M, intelligent experience, digital intelligent services, and intelligent talents, introducing new models, driving new growth, and enabling the acceleration of digital intelligence in the industry.
Xun Su, President of Huawei's Global Technical Service Dept.
Xun Su said: "In the intelligent era, only by effectively combining AI technology with the cognition of the telecom industry and the massive data of operators based on scenarios can we generate tangible business value and accelerate the transformation of digital intelligence. Huawei's services and software will apply AI technologies and new models to upgrade solutions to make networks greener and more reliable, provide better experiences for end users, and drive service innovation and growth. ”