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SHENZHEN, China, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

A keynote speech delivered at Mobile World Congress 2021

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of

telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile

internet, today announced that the company's CEO Xu Ziyang has delivered a

keynote speech entitled "Fuel the Digitalization, Endow with Intelligence" at

the opening ceremony of Mobile World Congress 2021.

According to Mr. Xu Ziyang, 5G applications, with the large-scale commercial

deployments of 5G networks, have entered into a period of iterative

development. Although challenges like ecological construction and business

models need to be confronted with, the direction of innovation turns to be

gradually clearer. ZTE, bolstered with over-two-year practices with the

industry and ecological partners, has worked out three major application

innovation directions and a digital empowerment foundation.

The three innovation directions of 5G applications as mentioned above cover,

specifically, empowering individuals with 5G expanding the boundaries of senses

and creating infinite possibilities, empowering target groups with 5G bridging

the digital gap, and empowering industries with 5G promoting the industrial

revolution.

Meanwhile, the digital empowerment foundation has achieved breakthroughs in

"ubiquitous broadband", "pervasive computing", "multi-dimensional convergence"

and "green energy saving", enabling strong interactions in real time, agile and

innovative applications, maximum resource efficiency and sustainable

development.

The company is willing to open these underlying capabilities to all industry

and ecosystem partners, to embrace a win-win future.

Here comes the original speech of Mr. Xu Ziyang as follows:  

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, distinguished guests, ladies and

gentlemen,

It's my great honor to be participating in MWC Barcelona 2021 virtually, which

is very different from the way we used to be. What I'm going to share with you

is "Fuel the Digitalization, Endow with Intelligence", which bears the hope,

together with our partners in the ecosystem, to find the way for the digital

and intelligent transformation of human society by continuously strengthening

the digital foundation.

As many of you have known, it's been two years since the first launch of 5G. To

date, over 1.1 million 5G base stations are in operation around the globe. 5G

not only brings an improved user experience, but drives digital and intelligent

transformation of verticals. What we are seeing is ZTE's 5G Intelligent

Manufacturing Base in Nanjing. Five 5G base stations are produced here every

minute, which are shipped all over the world. It is also an excellent example

of our practice in "Intelligent Manufacturing Powered by 5G". Here, with the

full coverage of 5G networks and implementation of MEC, we deployed 10 typical

5G applications which are essential to the realization of intelligent

manufacturing, including cloud-based AGV, 8K machine vision, cloud-based PLC,

smart storage, industrial wearables, digital twins, and onsite inspection. You

can see the quite encouraging figures, the manpower was reduced by 40%, the

defect rate went down by 20%, and the production cycle was declined by 30%,

while the production efficiency was increased by 40%.

Moreover, we, together with over 90 operators and 500 partners in globe, have

been exploring innovative 5G applications on a wide scope, and massive use

cases in more than 15 industry sectors were developed with positive outcomes.

We are pleased to see that the changes brought by 5G and many other new

information technologies are taking place in Thailand's factories, Belgium's

ports, Austria's farms, and manufacturing, transportation, power grid, and

environmental protection in China.

Though 5G applications are still in the earlier stage, we can now clearly

identify a few directions. The first one came into my mind is to expand the

boundaries of senses and create infinite possibilities for individuals. You

know, the boundary between the digital world and the physical world is

gradually getting blurred, thanks to the introduction of new networks and cloud

services. Smart home makes our life easier. Wearing an AR/VR headset, we can

enjoy immersive experience of traveling, gaming, sports events, and concerts

from the comfort of our own homes. By operating drones, we are able to extend

our vision. With such applications as autonomous driving, machine vision,

unmanned mining, and rescue robots, our property and lives are becoming even

better protected.

Secondly, it is to bridge the digital gap, aiming for sustainable development

goals in globe. For example, Telemedicine over 5G allows doctors and

specialists to diagnose patients remotely, putting high-quality medical

resources within immediate reach. Reporters can communicate with customers face

to face using the holographic technology. Distance learning provides equal

educational opportunities for regions at different development stages. 5G FWA

enables rapid provision of broadband services in some areas with limited

infrastructure. People can freely work from home as effectively as in the

office. With the 5G Air-To-Ground technology, passengers can enjoy in-flight

services just as smooth as when they are on the ground. As we can see, 5G

narrows the distance between the people and brings hearts closer, leading to a

more harmonious society.

Furthermore, in line with the modern industrial revolution, we develop

information technology to accelerate social development. For instance, smart

factories represent a leap from the traditional manufacturing, lowering costs

while improving efficiency and quality. Intelligent traffic infrastructure

facilitates low-carbon emission and more effective transportation. 5G helps

construct reliable, safe, economical, efficient, and environment-friendly smart

grids by implementing extensive connectivity with low latency and low cost,

which eventually is to reduce carbon emissions. With 5G, intelligent management

becomes a reality in agriculture. 5G also improves our living environment with

higher water and air quality, thus promoting sustainable development.

The innovative applications we have today certainly need to be further

developed by diving in economies of scale and business models. However, one

common requirement should and must be identified, which is the digital

enablement platform.

As many of you have already been aware, "data driven" is no doubt the key to

digital transformation of hundreds of thousands of verticals. Consequently,

computing-centric evolved into data-centric. With this understanding, the

Digital Foundation, which plays the important role, shall be improved

continuously in terms of "ubiquitous broadband", "pervasive computing", and

"multi-dimensional convergence". On top of it, new markets will be expanded and

business sustainability will be secured.

We believe that the enhanced network capability moves its way up in three

aspects: bandwidth, agility, and scheduling.

In terms of widening the bandwidth, what is worth mentioning is the 5G uplink

enhancement and gigabit optical access for wired broadband.

As for network agility, the SRv6 makes IP networks more flexible and

programmable. FlexE-based VPN capability and hard slicing satisfy the demands

for low latency, low jittering, ultra-reliability, and secure isolation.

Optical networks took mesh the next stage of evolution, which improves

capacity, lowers latency, and increases redundancy. Cloud-native core supports

deployments and operations in a more flexible, agile, and elastic manner.

We can use resource scheduling, control/forwarding separation, automated

end-to-end slicing orchestration, automated provisioning within minutes, and

flexible slicing operations to improve the efficiency of operation.

Data is soaring in both volume and variety in the AIoT era. Meanwhile, data

processing becomes more complicated with the introduction of AI, for instance,

deep learning algorithms. The centralized computing capacities no longer excel

in terms of security and efficiency. On the contrary, cloud-edge-terminal

synergy has been considered the cure-all for this headache. With the capacity

difference recognized among cloud, edge and terminal, and advanced optimization

on software, hardware, and chipsets, load-sensitive hyper-convergence becomes

the key to the infrastructure which guarantees scalability, agility, and fast

iteration.

This actually brings me to a few big words: cloud-network convergence,

software-hardware convergence, AI convergence, and also intrinsic security.

First of all, we do need clouds on demand and cloud-network synergy to fit the

diversities. The practice we implemented last year, say "Precise Cloud and

Network Solution", really showcased the power of a good example for serving

vertical enterprises and accelerating the digital transformation.

In addition, software-hardware convergence enriches our skill sets to pursue

the nature of business and cost efficiency. Software goes for cloud-native,

micro services, and components; in parallel, hardware is looking for ultimate

performance. We can break the hard boundaries of them by conducting joint and

global optimization dedicated for specific scenarios. For instance, we will see

more universal accelerator options, and more chiplet innovations.

Speaking of AI, it is to make the most of data value. Big data and training

model-based AI convergence supports cross-domain coordination of systems and

nodes, facilitates orchestration from data center down to radio interface, and

enables more efficient operation and maintenance.

Last but not the least, intrinsic security acts as a self-sensing,

self-adaptive, and self-evolving immune system for networks. Built during

network construction, it offers multiple security functions, and can evolve

automatically during network operation, thus constantly guaranteeing the

security, services, and data.

According to GSMA, the mobile communications industry is currently responsible

for around 0.4% of carbon emissions globally. It is the common goal of the

industry to reduce carbon emissions. To build green networks with lower power

consumption, ZTE advocates taking proper measures in the whole network life

cycle.

Specially, more efficient and intelligent production and manufacturing can be

realized with lower power consumption through 5G Industrial Internet, MEC, and

AI. As for innovations in base stations, we can improve the design of chipsets,

power amplifiers, and system integration for higher power efficiency. During

network construction, carbon emissions can be reduced by using clean energy and

highly efficient backup power supply for base stations, and heat dissipation

technologies for data centers, such as preset modular design and liquid cooling

technology. In network operation, solutions such as PowerPilot can be used for

intelligent algorithm-based traffic scheduling, thus lowering power consumption

while ensuring good user experience.

With such measures in the whole network life cycle, we can assist operators in

building green networks more effectively.

Although 5G has been put into commercial use for over two years, it is still in

the earlier stage. To secure its commercial success, we should also work

together to innovate in ecosystem development and business models. Committed to

the development of the industry and ecosystem, ZTE has gained rich experience

in core technologies, E2E DICT products and solutions, cloud components, and 5G

innovations. We are willing to open these underlying capabilities to all

industry and ecosystem partners. I am excited to see where this trend will lead

us. Let's work together to embrace a win-win future.

Thank you.

Media Contacts:

Margaret Ma  

ZTE Corporation  

Tel: +86 755 26775189  

Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

Source: ZTE Corporation

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