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Thrive with Digital, Striding Towards the Intelligent World
As society advances, so do the tools we use to build. Technology is redefining productivity, driving the transition from quantity to quality.
Underpinned by digital transformation, digital economic development will benefit the ICT industry and society as a whole by enabling massive increases in productivity.
The time is ripe to thrive with digital. Let's stride towards the intelligent world together.
Seizing the opportunities created by digitalization
From agrarian society to industrial and from information society to intelligent, each step of civilization’s journey has been marked by technological advancements that directly improve productivity. And as we stride towards the intelligent world, digital technology will once again redefine productivity, driving a shift from quantity to quality.
The keys to the next technological leap will be awareness, connectivity, and computing. Digital technologies will require 100-times greater performance. To overcome theoretical and technical constraints, we will need a bold hypothesis and vision, and we will need to think outside the box.
What we dream up today will only be the start of what the intelligent world will bring.
Leading the industry with future-oriented digital infrastructure and continuous innovation
Digitalization is creating boundless opportunities for all industries. In this new era of digital economy, increasingly diverse industrial scenarios require connections to be everywhere and always fast.
These range from connections between people to connections between things, from home connections to connections in factories, and from connections for transportation on the earth's surface to connections underground in mining tunnels.
Computing will also refine productivity as it becomes readily accessible whenever and wherever you need it, like water and electricity.
Moving forward, we will continue to build even stronger digital infrastructure that will help the world go digital. We will continue to advance the development of leading 5.5G infrastructure and build networks that can support over 100 billion connections and deliver a 10-gigabit user experience.
We will work hard to increase diversified computing power, offer reliable storage, and provide ubiquitous cloud services and pervasive intelligence.
Thriving with digital by creating value for customers, industry, and society
Digital applications are moving from individuals to industries and from consumers to production facilities, bringing us an even more premium experience and convenience.
The adoption of digital applications in core production systems in the manufacturing, coal mining, and port sectors is driving massive gains in productivity and efficiency.
As we work with partners to bring digital to every person and home, we are also changing the way people live and work. Together, we are bringing digital technologies to countless industries and deeply integrating them into industry-specific scenarios.
This is unleashing the value of data assets and enabling industries to thrive with digital in numerous scenarios. We are also using digital technology to benefit society, drive equitable education, and enable industries to pursue green development.
Forging E2E capabilities and creating thriving ecosystems together
Digital transformation presents both opportunities and challenges. A single tree does not make a forest, and Huawei will continue to work with its partners to advance digital transformation and develop the broader digital ecosystem.
By opening up hardware for integration and going open source with our software, we enable more partners and developers to take part in innovation for digital products and solutions.
Our guiding principle is to forge partnerships that are interest-bonded, integrity-centric, and rule-based. Through such partnerships, we can co-create and co-develop the capabilities industries need to go digital.
We are also teaming up with governments, other companies, and universities to cultivate a constantly expanding network of ICT professionals. These efforts will build a prosperous talent ecosystem that drives innovation and development within the ICT industry.
The theme of this year's summit is "Thrive with Intelligence". Huawei launched its AI Strategy back in 2018. We've made considerable progress since then, further refining our goals with the All Intelligence Strategy in 2023.
Special Issue: Thrive with Digital, Striding Towards the Intelligent World
With the foreword by Huawei's Sabrina Meng, the latest issue of HuaweiTech shares the insights of 15 industry experts on the latest ICT trends and key tech innovations, including 5.5G, AI, and cloud.
Immersive services like XR and holographic communication are maturing, and connectivity experience is set to increase from 1 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s. Mobile DOU will surge from today's 15 GB to 100 GB. Requirements for latency and ubiquitous connectivity will also increase.
For Households
The demands generated by advanced services like 24K 3D VR games and holographic education and meetings are creating a full-fiber, 10 Gbit/s era.
For Industries
Digital transformation has now entered the fast lane. Industrial-grade applications such as smart manufacturing and power grid dispatching are raising diversified requirements for connections, quality, and sensing, while also triggering explosive growth in demand for computing power and storage.
5.5G standardization has kicked off, with its technical specifications to be defined in 3GPP Releases 18, 19, and 20. 3GPP Release 18 will be frozen in H1 of 2024.
Release 3 to be frozen in 2024 H1
F5.5G has progressed from proposals to specification design. Last September, ETSI released its F5G Advanced White Paper, and it has been leading the formulation of F5.5G's first release, Release 3, which will be frozen in H1 of 2024.
5.5G has become a common goal in the industry. Leading operators are promoting its standardization and technological verification. Led by the GSMA, industry partners established a 5.5G community at the MWC Barcelona 2023. The World Broadband Association (WBBA), founded in 2022, released its "Next Generation Broadband Roadmap" white paper for F5.5G. The leading analyst and consultancy firm Omdia released its Net5.5G white paper last September to align industry roadmaps for faster commercial progress in technical evolution, application scenarios, and industry ecosystem.
5G is now in the fast lane after three years of commercial use. By the end of 2022, global 5G users exceeded 1 billion, gigabit broadband users reached 100 million, and more than 20,000 industry applications were put into use.
New immersive services such as XR and holographic communications are maturing, and connection experiences are improving from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. The explosive growth of IoT applications is a clear trend. For example, IoT connections in China outnumbered the connections for people in 2022. Digitalization has expanded deep into core production systems, creating more diverse requirements. For example, 1 Gbps uplink is needed to support high-precision industrial vision for AI-based inspection, remote control in mining industries, self-driving, and other services in which 5G is integrated with cloud and AI.
Spectrum
Clear strategies
Legacy spectrum: evolution to NR New spectrum: mmWave and 6 GHz
Spectrum is fundamental to wireless networks. The 5.5G industry is now promoting sub-100 GHz to support NR via a twofold strategy. First, legacy spectrum will be refarmed to ensure smooth evolution to 5.5G. Second, joint efforts will be made to ensure that large-bandwidth spectrum mmWave and the upper part of 6 GHz (U6GHz) will be allocated to 5.5G.
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