ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang: Fuel the Digitalization, Endow with Intelligence
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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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