Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of the
Carrier BG, Li Peng, has called for further innovation in 5G to create new
value and unleash digital dividends during his keynote at MWC Shanghai 2023. He
said the industry needs to innovate together to meet increasing digital
requirements in both the consumer and industrial markets.
Titled Creating New Value with
5G to Unleash Digital Dividends, his speech discussed how 5G is spearheading
the development of the digital industry and enabling the digitalization of all
industries.
Li said, "The future is
now. New business scenarios for people, homes, businesses, and vehicles are
delivering new experiences. This is raising higher requirements for network
capabilities. Enhanced network capabilities, like 10 Gbps downlink, 1 Gbps
uplink, and 100 billion IoT connections, are creating a vast market space in
5.5G for carriers."
Currently, the world has over 1.2 billion 5G users. Li
explained that the pursuit of the ultimate experience by the large number of
users is driving the development of innovative content and applications as well
as the construction of 5G networks that can deliver a 10 Gbps experience.
Huawei predicts that these
applications and content will also spur a 10-fold surge in traffic. For
example, the traffic generated by naked-eye 3D content will see a 3- to 10-fold
increase compared with 2D videos. A single New Calling user can generate over 1
GB of data per week while one cloud phone user can generate over 1 GB of data a
day.
5G spectrum will also be
crucial for achieving the ultimate user experience. Li said that the industry
needs access to new frequency bands, including the 6 GHz and mmWave bands, as
well as sub-100 GHz spectrum for 5G New Radio.
Huawei has already worked with
multiple carriers to perform technical verification for the 6 GHz band. Field
tests show that 10 Gbps downlink can be achieved on the 6 GHz band and that the
band can also achieve co-coverage with C-band for a single site.
In the consumer market, skyrocketing demand for new
experiences has led to a boom in innovative forms of content and applications,
like naked-eye 3D, smart home management, and whole-house intelligence. This
has prompted carriers to upgrade home networks that will deliver a bandwidth of
10 Gbps like private lines.
Li explained that Huawei
launched the 5G FWA Square solutions, including FWA Pro for ultrafast
connectivity, FWA Lite for cost-effective connectivity, and FWA Biz for highly
reliable connectivity. These three solutions can help carriers better meet user
needs in various scenarios and expand the 5G FWA market.
Since 5G commercialization began four years ago, more
than 17,000 private 5G networks have been built globally. These networks have
turbocharged digitalization in many industries, with clear economic benefits
for early adopters in the manufacturing, port, mining, oil & gas, and
healthcare industries.
As industrial digitalization becomes
more common, more businesses will integrate digital technology into their
production processes, and they will require more advanced network capabilities
that 5G can provide.
Together with partners, Huawei
helped a customer develop the industry's first 5.5G-powered flexible production
line. The project found that the 5.5G deterministic network guaranteed
ultra-high reliability and reduced latency down to 4 milliseconds in a
high-concurrency environment.
Li also touched on the popular topic of autonomous
vehicles during his speech. Constant progress is being made in the areas of
connected vehicles and Internet of Vehicles (IoV). ICT services are essential
for intelligent connected vehicles, Vehicle to Everything (V2X), and connected
intelligence.
5.5G will help cars sense
their surroundings much more clearly. An IoV with advanced sensing is a core
component of intelligent traffic light systems, navigation on rainy and foggy
days, beyond-line-of-sight sensing, and more. Level-4 autonomous vehicles are
expected to hit the commercial market in 2025 and will require massive amounts
of computing power and strong networks.
An autonomous car generates
hundreds of terabytes of data each day, and needs to upload about one terabyte
of that data to the cloud to support AI model training and algorithm updates.
Li said that Huawei will
deepen its partnership with the industry to support these huge demands for
computing power on clouds and intelligent real-time computing. The connectivity
and computing markets are expected to become promising areas of growth for
carriers.