If 5G ToC has helped operators achieve the value return of the basic disk in the past year, then 5G ToB is an important step from "0 to 1" to help operators achieve value jumps.
Compared with the ToC service of light trucking and familiar roads, in the process of practice, it is found that the ToB service is different from the traditional public network service, each different industry has significant differentiated characteristics, and the degree of informationization requirements of business scenarios between industries is also different, so the three major operators launch customizable 5G industry virtual private networks to meet the customized needs of users.
From the point of view of time, the three major operators have released commercially available 5G private network solutions at the end of 2020, after more than a year of development, the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that as of the end of October 2021, the number of virtual private networks in China's industry exceeded 2300. At the same time, the release of the "5G Application "Sail" Action Plan (2021-2023) has further promoted the success of private networks to empower 5G business and industry.
With policy support, the 5G virtual private network has taken advantage of the trend
The value and potential of 5G enabling industry applications have been widely recognized by the industry. With the continuous acceleration of the digitalization process, whether it is telecom operators or enterprises in traditional industries, the need for the use of 5G technology to achieve transformation and upgrading is becoming more and more urgent.
In order to promote the bloom of 5G in more industries, in July this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other ten departments issued the "5G Application "Sail" Action Plan (2021-2023)". In addition to proposing development indicators for the 5G individual market, the "Plan" requires that by 2023, the penetration rate of 5G applications of large industrial enterprises will exceed 35%, and 5G applications in the fields of electric power and mining will be replicated and promoted on a large scale, forming a number of 5G + smart education, 5G + smart medical care, 5G + cultural tourism model projects, and each key industry will create more than 100 5G application benchmarks.
It is understood that as of now, 5G applications have covered many fields in the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and the potential of 5G to empower the digital transformation of the economy and society has been continuously released, and nearly 50% of 5G applications have achieved commercial landing. Taking the most representative industrial Internet innovation application as an example, it has been widely used in more than 40 key industries of the national economy such as steel, machinery, transportation, and energy, of which more than 1,800 projects are under construction in "5G + Industrial Internet".
Facing 2022, Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that the construction of 5G and Gigabit optical networks will be carried out in a sound and orderly manner, the large-scale construction of virtual private networks in the 5G industry will be accelerated, the network infrastructure foundation for digital transformation will be laid, focusing on key industries such as manufacturing, mining, and electric power, and the typical application scenarios of "5G + industrial Internet" will be deeply excavated. Support upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to open up data, accelerate the development of basic common standards such as industrial data interaction, and support all localities to explore and cultivate the data element market. Deeply implement the digital transformation action of the manufacturing industry, accelerate the construction of a digital transformation service system, and promote the industrial Internet platform into the park and enterprise.
Ability upgrade, continuous evolution of the product system
On the basis of policy support, the three major domestic operators are guided by the needs of enterprise customers, and in the past year's practice process, they have continuously improved the product capabilities of the virtual private network in the 5G industry and carried out systematic upgrades. As Wen Ku, vice chairman and secretary general of the China Communications Standardization Association, pointed out at the IMT-2020 (5G) conference held in December 2021, the current 5G industry virtual private network is moving from 1.0 to 2.0, from the ToB general network to the customized network evolution of various industries.
In the past year, China Telecom has aimed to land 1,000 customized commercial networks, through experience summary, continuously subdivide the needs of users in scenarios, innovate and launch the 5G custom network capability Cube, focusing on the business demand surface, technical parameter surface, atomic capability surface, standard product surface, business model surface, technical solution surface, to achieve accurate scenario adaptation, multi-dimensional construction of capabilities, and rapid delivery of programs, further realizing from "1" to "N", and promoting 5G scale replication and commercial closed loop. At the same time, it also enhances and optimizes the service system and upgrades the industrial ecology.
China Mobile launched the 5G private network technology system 2.0, upgrading and evolving from three aspects: network capabilities, private network services and equipment systems. In terms of network capabilities, the introduction of 5G LAN, TSN and other industrial Internet enhancement capabilities, NPN and secondary authentication and other access control capabilities, super uplink, ultra-low latency, ultra-high reliability and high-precision positioning and other business carrying capacity; service system improvement, the construction of a one-stop operation system, to provide operation and maintenance automation, localization operation and maintenance, SLA quality assurance and visualization and other capabilities, to promote the 5G private network from "available" to "dare to use" and "easy to use"; equipment product system improvement, Independent research and development of OpenUPF, OpenSigma edge computing platform and other products, is in the process of customized 5GC and "fruit core" integrated equipment planning and research and development, for customized deployment scenarios have formed a perfect 5G private network equipment product system.
China Unicom released the 5G industry private network product system 2.0 (that is, "5G private network PLUS"), in terms of network leapfrogging, to create a 5GC centralized cloud, distributed a three-dimensional network architecture, quickly realize innovation that is, access to the network, verification is commercialization, the whole network scale promotion; industry leapfrogging, for industry segmentation application scenarios, network solution baseline, network configuration template, support 5G private network large-scale delivery; service leapfrog, adhering to the "one point access, service the whole country" The intensive operation concept comprehensively upgrades the 5G application mall and the 5G private network operation platform, so that industry customers can buy comfortably, build worry-free, and use it with confidence.
Ecological synergy accelerates the integration of 5G into thousands of industries
Of course, the virtual private network of the 5G industry is a very long industrial chain from the program to the landing, and "going alone fast, going far" has always been the eternal development law of this industry. As the main builder and operator of the current virtual private network in the 5G industry, telecom operators actively build an industrial ecology.
China Telecom has upgraded the integrated industrial ecosystem, from one-way customer service, simple channel sales, and single supply procurement to jointly building, sharing, and win-win with the majority of partners, creating a larger, broader, deeper, and comprehensively integrated industrial ecology, and sharing the industrial digital ecological dividend.
Adhering to the concept of openness, innovation, cooperation and win-win situation, China Mobile works with upstream and downstream partners in industry, education and research to promote the continuous integration and integration of 5G and the industry, and accelerate the transformation process of thousands of industries and intelligent technologies.
China Unicom has comprehensively upgraded the 5G private network platform 3.0, reduced the threshold for enterprise applications to get on the train through open standards and edge computing architecture, built a large-scale business ecology of ToB, and truly achieved full 5G applications, one-stop integration, one-time innovation, and full-network replication.
Liu Yulin, deputy director of the Department of Information and Communication Development of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that in order to further play the supporting role of the virtual private network in the 5G industry on the application of the industry, three suggestions were put forward, first, to continuously optimize the virtual private network promotion environment of the 5G industry. Second, accelerate the improvement of virtual private network standards in the 5G industry. Third, focus on promoting the sharing of virtual private network industry resources in the 5G industry.
The value of 5G lies in the ToB scenario, the 5G industry virtual private network is the key infrastructure to achieve 5G in various vertical industries, at the same time, 5G + thousands of industries, "cross-border" is a must and inevitable, open "circle of friends" is the key to determining how far to go, I believe that under the joint efforts of the industrial chain, the application of the 5G industry will be accelerated from "model house" to "commercial housing" Transformation. (Water Easy)