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SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

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

telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile

internet, today announced that ZTE's Chief Development Officer, Cui Li, has

delivered a speech on Embracing a New Era with Digital Service Providers at the

ZTE Global Analyst Conference.

With increasing demands for data services, many public cloud providers and

telecom operators are vigorously making cross-border innovations, expecting to

seize the new opportunities at the early stages of a new round of digital

economy surge. ZTE believes that to further consolidate digital foundations in

combination with the characteristics of digital services will effectively help

operators realize the transformation from traditional communication service

providers to future digital service providers, while also speeding up the

digital and intelligent transformation of society.

"ZTE expects to consolidate digital foundations with enhanced network

capabilities, expanded digital capabilities, and digital transformation of

industries, thereby helping operators to realize digital transformation, better

embrace the digital era and stay ahead in future competitions, while creating

value and winning the future together," said Ms. Cui.  

Digital transformation is an inevitable trend and enterprises need to take the

initiatives

"Digital transformation is now an inevitable trend. Taking the lead in digital

transformation will definitely bring us digital dividends and competitive

edges," Ms. Cui stressed. "The era of digital services will be the beginning of

a new round of competition for the incremental market."

From the perspective of the macro environment, firstly, the digital economy has

already become one of the major driving forces for high-quality economic growth

and we need to follow the trend. Secondly, the increasing uncertainties in the

global environment are forcing enterprises to enhance their capabilities to

guard against risks. Thirdly, people are more aware of the importance of

environmental protection and sustainable development, and digital

transformation is the key for major countries to achieving carbon neutrality

goals.

And from the perspective of the market, as traditional communication services

have hit a revenue ceiling, the digital service market characterized by

cloud-network synergy is gradually opening up.

According to Ms. Cui's analysis, firstly, in the post-pandemic era, smart home

has become a new scenario that integrates work, education, and entertainment.

The development of smart home applications, such as 4K/8K videos and VR/AR,

will drive the rapid growth of the market. Secondly, intelligent Internet of

everything (IIoE) contributes to the explosive growth of connected terminals.

The processing of massive data poses higher requirements for network capability

and ubiquitous computing power.

Thirdly, regarding cost-effective integrated ICT solutions, instead of building

data centers by themselves, enterprise customers are more willing to turn to

digital service providers (DSPs) for professional integrated services at lower

costs, so that they can focus more on business improvement. Also, providing

integrated services for the digital transformation of traditional industries

will bring new growth opportunities for operators.  

With the great room for market growth of digital services, Ms. Cui believes

that the transformation of traditional operators from communication service

providers to digital service providers is a necessary option to enhance their

competitiveness.

From the perspective of technological development, the emerging new

technologies and evolving digital technologies in recent years have laid a

solid foundation for digital services, for instance, dual-gigabit network

access based on 5G and gigabit optical networks, distributed computing based on

cloud-edge-terminal synergy, cloud native, digital twin and AI applications,

and Zero Trust Architecture for data security and cybersecurity.

Among so many technologies, how should operators make choices and effectively

apply them? Cui Li believes that the decisive factor is "the value that a

technology can create." She suggests following three principles. The first

principle means value creation for customers, indicating to focus on technology

integration, capability decoupling, ecological openness, and fundamental

security. The second refers to Forward-Looking Deployment, which means facing

the rapid technology evolution and gaining competitive edges in future key

technologies. The third is Differential Development, which means giving full

play to the advantages in main business and refraining from the don'ts, so as

to play a key role in the value ecosystem in the future.

Integrating networks, clouds, and industries assists operators in staying ahead

in future competitions

After analyzing the macro environment, market and technological trend, Ms. Cui

said, "operators should start to transform from CSPs to DSPs right now. With

their existing advantages, operators can build a solid digital foundation

integrating networks, clouds, and industries, thus staying ahead in future

competitions."

Networks are the basis for the Internet of Everything, while distributed cloud

can provide computing power anytime and anywhere. Combining the big data

technology with networks and distributed cloud, we can achieve data collection

and integration. Furthermore, we can realize high-dimensional perception and

intelligent decision-making through AI technology. Regarding industries, the

key is to provide customer-oriented digital services tailored to various

verticals. In other words, to satisfy the requirements of different customers,

we should flexibly integrate the underlying capabilities of networks and

clouds, to provide cost-effective, user-friendly digital services. That makes

all the difference.

"With network-cloud-industry synergy, operators can effectively drive the

digital transformation of verticals as well as the ToC, ToH, and ToB business,

thereby taking a leading position in the digital era," stressed Ms. Cui.

Enhance network capabilities. We keep emphasizing the improvement of network

capabilities, namely, to explore resources and reduce costs. Specifically, we

should seek continuous innovations and breakthroughs in ultimate experience and

efficiency.

Ultimate experience focuses on "exploring resources". In order to make success

in the market, it's essential to bring customers brand new experiences. For

example, individual consumers expect full network coverage with fast speed

while home users look for better experience grounded on multi-screen display,

intelligent applications, and immersive interactions, and industry customers

require large uplink bandwidth, URLLC applications, as well as

small-granularity hard slicing.

Most importantly, customers are willing to pay for these brand new experiences

that bring them greater value.

As for ultimate efficiency, the key is cost reduction. We strive to make

continuous breakthroughs in spectral, operational, and power efficiency, to

lower costs and improve overall efficiency.

Next is to expand digital capabilities. It's suggested that operators focus on

optimal resource efficiency and edge-driven applications to promote the

expansion of digital capabilities in the new era.

As we can see, enterprises are advancing digitalization of production to

improve efficiency. To meet requirements such as ultra-low latency and data

security, a large amount of data will be processed at the edge. Therefore, the

edge will become a field with fierce competition for innovation.

From "Center Cloud" to "Distributed Cloud", first, telecom operators should

take their existing advantages to achieve low-cost startup and agile deployment

at the edge. For example, they have strong infrastructure networks, massive

distributed sites and the data center, and provide customers with agile and

tailored local digital services and maintenance services. Then, it's suggested

that operators give full play to their advantages in ICT as well as

hardware-software convergence for edge-driven middle platform reconstruction,

to ensure higher resource efficiency and provide stronger support for fast

innovations at the edge.  

"Edge-driven middle platform reconstruction" is to employ finer-granularity

components horizontally, and build a thinner PaaS layer to enable vertical

decoupling of the technical service layer and general service layer. Such an

architecture enables dual circulations. Through highly efficient hardware and

software coordination, the technical service layer and the IaaS layer provide

effective support for the upper application layer.

This architecture also guarantees optimal resource efficiency, which can be

achieved through the synergy between the general service layer and the

application layer. Specifically, with its low-code architecture, the general

service layer enables the agile development of the upper application layer. At

the same time, the public logic and algorithms accumulated from the application

layer can be used to resolve the conflicts between customization and scale,

thereby facilitating the sustainable development of operators.

With enhanced network capabilities and expanded digital capabilities,

conditions are ripe for digital transformation of industries. The most

important is to remain value-oriented and scenario-driven when tailoring

digital services for vertical industries.

It is a target to develop underlying network and cloud capabilities by general

core technologies. On this basis, such capabilities can be flexibly integrated

for various industries, enterprises, scenarios, and applications, and more

importantly, for application innovation and incubation.

At the end of her speech, Ms. Cui concludes, "With the future approaching,

there are opportunities and challenges in the digital era. ZTE is committed to

integrating networks, clouds and industries to solidify its position in the

industry and facilitate the digital transformation of operators, thus embracing

the digital era and achieving win-win success with all partners."

Media Contact:

Margaret Ma                                                      

ZTE Corporation                                                    

Tel: +86 755 26775189                                      

Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn  

Source: ZTE Corporation

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