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SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- A keynote speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the Mobile World

Congress (MWC) Shanghai 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 President Xu Ziyang has delivered

a keynote speech entitled "Build Stronger Core Competence, Achieve High-Quality

Growth Together" at the opening ceremony of the Mobile World Congress (MWC)

Shanghai 2021, which kicked off today in Shanghai, China.

According to Mr. Xu, 5G is still in its fledgling stage, and digital and

intelligent transformation has already gathered full momentum. ZTE maintains

the judgement that development in this stage will encounter both technology

challenges and business uncertainties. Technology challenges include constantly

reducing costs and increasing efficiency for 5G infrastructures, and meeting

higher performance requirements for different industry applications.

To cope with technology challenges, ZTE builds stronger core competence and

pursues excellence.

Challenges brought by business uncertainties refer to a series of problems that

are not clearly understood, for example, the large-scale expansion,

monetization, and business models of industry applications.

Facing uncertainties in market expansion, ZTE strengthens "agile" capabilities

to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of vertical industries,

thus lowering startup costs, making quick trials and iterations, and promoting

successful models. Meanwhile, ZTE welcomes deep and open cooperation with our

partners in vertical industries and the ecosystem, to achieve high-quality

growth together.

Here comes the original speech as follows:  

Hello, everyone. Many people may know that there is a fast-growing plant called

Giant King Grass. Within the half year after it sprouts, its stem is only about

one inch in height, but the roots grow over 10 meters deep underground and

spread wide vigorously to absorb nutrients and accumulate energy. Once it

rains, the Giant King Grass can grow over two meters high in only several days.

Then, how can a company grow fast? In view of this, I would like to talk about

"Build Stronger Core Competence, Achieve High-Quality Growth Together­—For

Digital and Intelligent Ecosystem of Shared Success." In this speech, I will

share some of ZTE's innovations, practices, and thoughts, to call for all

partners to make joint efforts in the 5G fledgling stage for a better future.

The year 2020 was certainly extraordinary. The strike of COVID-19 and the

ever-changing global environment seemed to disrupt 5G deployment, but in fact,

China and other countries that had taken preemptive actions were keeping their

pace. In the fight against the pandemic, technology succeeded. For consumers,

the pandemic has greatly changed the way they live and work, making ICT

services a necessity, like air, water, and electricity. Enterprises then need

to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation, not only to reduce costs

and increase efficiency, but to become more agile and intelligent, thus better

coping with the uncertainties in external environments, markets, and

technologies.

Digital and Intelligent Transformation in Full Swing

After two years of commercial practices, 5G is still in its fledgling stage,

and digital and intelligent transformation has already gathered full momentum.

We maintain the judgement that development in this stage will encounter both

technology challenges and business uncertainties. Technology challenges

include: to constantly reduce costs and increase efficiency for 5G

infrastructures, and to meet higher performance requirements for different

industry applications. Challenges brought by business uncertainties refer to a

series of problems that are not clearly understood, for example, the

large-scale expansion, monetization, and business models of industry

applications.

For Technology Challenges, Build Stronger Core Competence and Pursue Excellence

To cope with technology challenges, we build stronger core competence and

pursue excellence.

First of all, let's take a look at the evolution of cloud-network capability

based on market progress. Phase 1 refers to the first 1–3 years when 5G

networks are deployed. The focus of this phase is fusion for higher efficiency.

For example, multi-frequency/RAT sites, large bandwidth, high efficiency, and

DSS are applied to optimize resource utilization; new materials, new processes,

and AI are employed to reduce energy consumption; and enhanced uplink, edge

deployment, and multi-cloud synergy are developed to facilitate market

expansion. The focus of Phase 2 is intelligence and openness. As the 5G traffic

load increases, ubiquitous AI, open and decoupled architecture, and edge cloud

and industry applications will further promote cloud-network integration, as

well as uRLLC and millimeter wave technology. In Phase 3, the popularization of

5G industry applications will raise higher requirements for cloud-network

integration and stimulate continuous evolution of technologies. For example,

ultra large antenna, Terahertz (THz), multi-dimensional connectivity, and

AI-Native networks will emerge.

Ultimate Experience

To cope with the technology challenges, we make continuous innovations and

breakthroughs for the ultimate user experience. For both consumer and business

markets, the key to success is to create a brand-new experience for customers

and users.

For consumers, we increase the high-rise coverage by 30% in complex scenarios

with the Massive MIMO SSB 1+X beam broadcasting solution, improve 5G indoor

coverage experience with cost-effective solutions by using eDAS that enables

UL/DL multi-stream transmission through software implementation, apply

Doppler-Shift Compensation to ensure good user experience in high-speed rail

and air transport scenarios, and provide immersive experience of sports events

and concerts through new home videos.

For vertical industry applications, we offer better access technology, like

enhanced uplink of 5G networks and low-latency connectivity of PON. In the

meantime, with E2E guarantee and enhanced network slicing, larger bandwidth,

lower latency, and higher reliability, we can facilitate the expansion of

industry applications, especially those in the OT field.

Ultimate Efficiency

Moreover, we constantly pursue ultimate efficiency, including the highest

spectral, power, and network operational efficiency. These are vital for

operators to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and achieve sustainable

development. For example, we provide MU-MIMO with higher capacity, Cloud Radio

with lower interference, SuperDSS that allows dynamic spectrum sharing among

2/3/4/5G, higher-spectral-efficiency 800 Gbps OTN with single-wavelength, AIVO

to improve efficiency by incorporating AI into different network building

stages, PowerPilot precision power saving to reduce power consumption by 20% at

site level through big data and AI, and, when 5G traffic load increases,

in-depth coordination between frequencies and RATs to optimize energy

efficiency while ensuring excellent user experience, by real-time service

identification and energy efficiency analysis.

Ultimate Core Competence

Core competence is the cornerstone of ultimate experience and ultimate

efficiency. In terms of chipset, advanced manufacturing technology, packaging,

and joint software/hardware design can help overcome the bottleneck of Moore's

Law. With rich experience in IPs and the digital IC DevOps COT design platform,

we can safeguard our core competitiveness in chipset development. Algorithms

are the essence of software and also the key to higher software quality and

efficiency. We will focus on high cohesion at the physical layer, ultimate

performance at the network layer, and feature optimization at the service

layer, and continue to improve the AI algorithm library. This will bring about

continuous improvement on chipsets and algorithms, and revolutionary progress

in architecture. In terms of architecture, we will keep enhancing decoupling,

promote microservice architecture, and achieve data-driven evolution to

AI-Native architecture.

Facing the uncertainties in market expansion, we strengthen "agile"

capabilities to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of vertical

industries, thus lowering startup costs, making quick trials and iterations,

and promoting successful models. Meanwhile, we welcome deep and open

cooperation with our partners in vertical industries and the ecosystem, to

achieve high-quality growth together.

Focus on Value Creation and Scenario-Based Services Make things EASIER

When facing the challenge of business uncertainties in vertical industries, we

advocate being value-driven and scenario-based to make things "EASIER".

The first "E" stands for "Elastic", indicating the elasticity of applications,

agnostic migration, and flexible scale-in/out brought by single-source

heterogeneity and cloud native software. "A" is short for "Agile", meaning the

computing power on demand, agile innovation, and rapid iteration and

replication supported by lightweight software and hardware design. "S"

indicates "Secure", referring to higher security guaranteed by zero trust

through intrinsic security. "I" means "Intelligent", indicating the data-driven

evolution and continuous algorithm iteration empowered by ubiquitous AI. The

second "E" is short for "Easy", meaning that customers can easily use the

network through simple and fast deployment and maintenance. "R" stands for

"Reliable", indicating the reliable performance in latency and resources

guaranteed by the TSN and finer-granularity hard-slicing technologies.

Strengthen Agility, Succeed in Edge

Agility makes success. With lightweight and flexibility as its basis, agility

is key to addressing uncertainties. As vertical industry applications extend to

the OT field, the edge will become the major field for innovation incubation

and application. As for deployment of agile edge:

In terms of hardware, on-premises gateways, embedded boards, all-in-one

cabinets, and the resource pool of all-series servers can enjoy lightweight

startup and expansion on demand.

Regarding software, the TECS Cloud Foundation (TCF) enhances the technical

service layer and boosts computing power through lightweight, NEO hardware

acceleration, and dual core engine technologies. The coordination between

software and hardware realizes flexible deployment and agile innovations of

AnyWhere, AnySize, and AnyService.

Fast Iteration, High-Quality Growth

To tackle uncertainties, we need comprehensive enhancement and coordination in

all fields to achieve "full decoupling", "dual circulations", and "deep

optimization".

"Full decoupling" indicates a further decoupled architecture based on cloud

infrastructure. We employ finer-granularity components horizontally, and build

a thinner PaaS layer to enable vertical decoupling of both technical service

layer and general service layer.

Besides, such an architecture enables dual circulations. Cycle optimization

between the technical service layer and the infrastructure layer improves the

infrastructure resource utilization efficiency and the coordination efficiency

of applications, safeguarding edge application scenarios despite limited

resources. Moreover, the general service layer and scenario-based applications

are mutually supportive. Specifically, the former enables the service

development on the upper application layer through its low-code architecture.

At the same time, it also accumulates public logic and algorithms from the

application layer, resolving the conflict between customization and scale to

some extent.

Deep optimization lowers non-efficient redundancy expenses through multimode

fusion, and ensures the best infrastructure efficiency in different

applications through customized off-the-shelf hardware.

Digital and Intelligent Ecosystem of Shared Success

Rainforests are the most stable and robust ecosystems on this planet. Striving

for stronger core competence and high-quality growth in the 5G era, ZTE expects

to build a rainforest-like ecosystem with all partners in the industry for

shared success.

The industry and ecosystem require more professional coordination when facing

up to business uncertainties. ZTE is committed to building a digital and

intelligent ecosystem based on open underlying capabilities and more efficient

collaboration, to achieve win-win with all partners. We are willing to open the

capabilities of such core technologies as chipset, database, and OS, the E2E

ICT product capabilities, including wireless and wired, computing power, and

terminal fields, the component capabilities of AI, data and video, and 5G

innovations to all industry and ecosystem partners for win-win success. As a

faithful driver of the digital economy, ZTE is committed to tackling the

toughest challenges to power the world with core 5G capability.

2021 marks the year of the Ox, which symbolizes resilience and perseverance in

Chinese culture. It is exactly the spirit that ZTE has been carrying forward.

We will remain down-to-earth and continue to keep words and actions consistent.

Working closely together with the entire industry, we are bound to address all

the challenges and difficulties. Thank you!

Media Contact:

Margaret Ma  

ZTE Corporation  

Tel: +86 755 26775189  

Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

SOURCE  ZTE Corporation

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