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Let's talk to you today: Vodafone has begun to take action, making final preparations for replacing Huawei's 5G equipment!
Although No one questions Huawei's 5G technology, but under the pressure of relevant restrictions, many European countries are not free to cooperate with Huawei, and the attitude of the United Kingdom runs through the entire process, as the first batch of countries to cooperate with Huawei 5G, now unilaterally break the contract, and even dismantle Huawei's previous equipment, causing huge economic losses to both sides.
The consequences of abandoning Huawei 5G can only be borne by the United Kingdom itself, but without the support of Huawei technology, it is obvious that it is so easy to complete the construction of a complete and sound 5G network. At present, Vodafone, the uk's largest telecom operator, has successfully enabled the 5G Open RAN site and has an overall 5G network layout, so can it bypass Huawei's 5G network?
Vodafone made an important decision
Although the European market is not friendly to Huawei, but adhering to a fair and open cooperation attitude, Huawei has not given up the European market, actively participate in the construction of 5G networks in various countries, with Huawei's current technical strength, there is no need to prove themselves again, some countries that are not afraid of relevant restrictions have long used Huawei's technology to establish a reliable 5G network.
Although Huawei 5G has supporters around the world, if it can not win the most important European market, it will still drag down the overall global layout, if European countries insist on dismantling Huawei equipment, which will cause the loss of a certain right to speak in the future 5G era, it is not easy to develop advanced technology, naturally to find a way to maximize the influence, and this is the reason for insisting on layout globalization.
The United Kingdom has also previously stated: "Interrupting cooperation with Huawei 5G is not a subjective will, but is oppressed by the Old United States!" Obviously, such a problem cannot be solved in the short term, and the United Kingdom has to act according to the previous plan, and will completely dismantle Huawei's equipment in the next 7 years, but obviously it cannot shelve the 5G construction plan, and has now cooperated with Vodafone to open the country's first 5G Open RAN site."
And this test site, did not use any of Huawei's equipment, is obviously to replace Huawei's equipment to prepare, if you can achieve the popularization of 5G Open RAN sites, then in the future in the 5G construction will have an independent voice, then in the end the British layout, can achieve its desired purpose?
Britain was able to achieve what it wanted
Open RAN site can be interpreted as an open unlimited access network, at present many countries are using this way to achieve 5G network deployment, mainly through the equipment of different 5G equipment manufacturers, combined with the operator's software and hardware facilities, to achieve unified access to different modular equipment products, so as to achieve the purpose of complementary advantages and disadvantages, improve the sufficient compatibility of equipment, thereby reducing the probability of differentiated retention, mutual cooperation to achieve the purpose.
Because in the traditional RAN deployment, has always been the disadvantage of European and American countries, so at this stage for the layout of this aspect, they can be said to have made a lot of effort, Open RAN belongs to the open wireless access network, and the previous use of RAM mode is very different, the latter uses equipment, technology integration layout, compared to the former unlimited access method is relatively stable.
In terms of traditional network layout technology, many participants have built a complete industrial chain, Huawei and other enterprises can not occupy the initiative, and the new RAN model has an O-RAM alliance, in which the leading members include ZTE, Huawei, Ericsson, etc., and Huawei and ZTE technology is the most advanced, so it occupies enough voice in this alliance.
And European and American countries naturally do not see us well, and now also began to plan their own Open RAN alliance, in an open form of promotion, invite well-known enterprises around the world, but only less Chinese enterprises, the meaning is also very obvious, and with the establishment of the first 5G Open RAN site in the United Kingdom, it proves that they want to independently deploy the "ambition" of the network plan!
Can you bypass Huawei's plan
Vodafone, as the largest multinational telecom operator in Europe and the United States, if it masters the autonomy of the 5G Open RAN site, and Europe as the most important market in the world, if they realize the autonomy of technology, the right to speak in the subsequent 5G era will also undergo certain changes.
Of course, they want to completely bypass Huawei's 5G technology, in terms of their current strength, there is a certain degree of difficulty, definitely not a few 5G Open RAN sites can complete the overall weapon layout, relative to Huawei, their technology is still in its infancy, completely replace all of Huawei's equipment, in the short term is impossible to achieve.
Even if they use Ericsson and Nokia equipment, but as long as the use of Huawei's 5G standards, it means to use Huawei's technology patents, or can not avoid paying high patent fees to Huawei, it is likely that all efforts will return to the original point, Huawei has technology in hand, do not have to worry about the market being robbed, what do you think about this?