Huawei Edward Deng

Embracing 5G Era Mobile Network

LONDON, Nov. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Global Mobile Broadband Forum (Global MBBF), Edward Deng, President of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line, delivered a keynote speech on "Embracing 5G Era Mobile Network". He elaborated upon the unprecedented opportunities and huge challenges faced by operators in the era of 5G, especially in terms of how mobile networks satisfy requirements of diverse services and connectivity. Huawei proposed the most important elements for the future mobile network: 5G Era SingleRAN, Mobile Cloud, and Wireless Intelligence, which aim to help operators build a single network that provides a diverse range of services. Such a network also helps to rapidly seize new business opportunities at low costs and achieve sustainable growth in the process towards realizing a digitalized society.

Embracing 5G Era Mobile Network to Address New Opportunities and Challenges

The next decade will be a new era of 5G featuring the rapid development of new services and requirements in the wireless communications industry. Edward Deng believes that operators' top priority is to build a single mobile network that meets the demands of a super connected society and industry development. This requires the fostering of three key capabilities:

• Powerful network capability to meet divergent requirements for capacity, coverage, and latency of a wide range of services
• An agile and flexible network architecture to improve the efficiency of multi-service connections
• Intelligent network management to provide efficient network O&M and optimization of diversified service experience

Powerful Network Capability: 5G Era SingleRAN Provides Full Support for Diverse Services on a Single Network

The diversity of IoT applications and scenarios poses high and divergent requirements for network capabilities. Capacity must be improved from single to double digit Gbps data rates for the upcoming 5G era. Similarly, population coverage must be expanded to cater for geographical coverage, while reducing latency from 10 ms to ms level.

At the Global MBBF, Huawei released the portfolios of 5G Era SingleRAN that boast higher capacity, wider coverage, and low latency with high reliability. This solution will enable operators to offer diverse services on a single network. This solution adopts simple and highly integrated 5G sites to deliver ultra-high capacity. A series of low-cost innovative sites can be used to improve the depth and width of scenario-specific network coverage, while supporting the latest protocol and architecture to support ms level latency. Edward Deng indicated that, "5G Era SingleRAN can maximize the value of existing networks and promote a smooth evolution to 5G. Enhanced capabilities help enable a mobile network to support a multitude of services."