After experiencing the glory of the voice era and falling into the loneliness after the Internet grab, today's operators are standing at a new inflection point and trying to open the next chapter of "elephant dancing".
The horn of the "dress up ball" has been sounded. The highly anticipated MWC Mobile World Congress 2022 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from February 28 to March 3, and operators, ICT vendors and their partners from around the world will delve into industry trends and hot topics.
As the prelude to this grand event, the "+IT, New Growth" theme summit was held first, and elites and opinion leaders from all walks of life gathered together. What is particularly interesting is that Wang Tao, Managing Director of Huawei and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee, delivered an important speech to comprehensively interpret the profound background of operators' digital transformation in the new era, and outlined the blueprint for ICT vendors to provide operators with intelligent IT bases.
Wang Tao, Managing Director of Huawei and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee
In recent years, emerging technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have developed in tandem, promoting the continuous evolution of market patterns and application scenarios. Huawei GIV predicts that by 2030, the global connection will be from 10 billion people to 100 billion things, and the total number of connections is expected to exceed 200 billion. Mankind will enter the era of YB data, and the amount of data will increase by 23 times; the global computing power will reach 3.3 ZFLOPS (FP32), and the AI computing computing power will exceed 105 ZFLOPS (FP16), an increase of 500 times.
While this brings huge business opportunities for operators, it also means unprecedented challenges, and deepening digital transformation is imminent. Operators need to change themselves before empowering thousands of industries, and ICT vendors building a reliable, efficient and intelligent IT infrastructure will create the necessary conditions for operators to transform.
Operators take a new step
According to EY Consulting's statistical analysis, the proportion of digital-related revenue in the overall business of typical domestic operators in recent years has increased year by year, and the growth rate of digital services is higher than that of communication services, and the growth gap continues to widen - by the first half of 2021, the digital revenue of operators' industrial digitalization has reached 50.1 billion yuan.
In order to better grasp the business opportunities in the era of digitalization and intelligence, operators must first accelerate the process of their own digital transformation in order to cope with multiple challenges from the market environment.
5G is a pioneer for operators to regain their right to speak, driving new services such as ToC (individual) and ToH (home) to accelerate the listing. In the future, the service launch speed of operators will be shortened from monthly to weekly or even day-level to achieve rapid network construction and service innovation.
At the same time, the total amount of data in various services of operators has soared exponentially - the amount of BSS domain call list data will increase by 7.5 times, the high-definition video service of ToC will increase by more than 10 times, and the amount of big data analysis data will increase by 5 times, which puts forward higher requirements for service data storage and analysis processing.
It is worth noting that in addition to continuing to deepen the personal and family fields, the development focus of operators has gradually tilted to the government and enterprise markets, and IDC, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other services have gradually entered the return period after years of accumulation, enabling the digital transformation of thousands of industries to emerge.
In China, enterprises going to the cloud will create $460 billion of market space, of which $200 billion is mainly connected, and $260 billion belongs to the space that operators can explore based on cloud networks. The latest statistics show that the DICT service of China's three major operators has become a new growth engine, with an average annual growth rate of up to 40%.
When the elephant regains the rhythm of the dance, before enjoying the beautiful dance steps, the overall structure and support mechanism of the stage should be re-examined.
IT infrastructure is upgraded
The basic network architecture of many operators has been finalized more than a decade ago, when the application was mainly e-mail and web page access, and today's market application environment can be described as earth-shaking, IT base upgrade is imperative.
In the course of the many evolutions of operator business models, IT infrastructure has always played a pivotal role, and it investment and direction choice will determine the effectiveness of operator strategic breakthrough.
Obviously, the trend of digital transformation of operators is irreversible, whether due to the requirements of their own mode of operation adjustment or the need to enable the industry market, they have high hopes for a comprehensive transition in IT infrastructure.
On the one hand, the intelligent upgrade of operators' own IT infrastructure is on the string. The new service launch requires a shorter TTM, which requires cloud-native development architecture and process support; the utilization and effective flow of data resources are not inseparable from a unified data resource pool; to improve management efficiency and shorten the fault processing time, it is urgent to establish an operating mechanism for multi-cloud unified management.
On the other hand, operators enable the digital transformation of the industry, and they need the full support of the new IT base. In order to match the needs of industry customers for reliability, data protection and latency, the company can help industry customers' production systems and innovative edge services reliably go to the cloud with the help of mature scenarios and practical experience, so that they can quickly enter the industry and win customer trust.
To some extent, digital transformation is related to the overall situation of operators' future development, and the leapfrog evolution of IT infrastructure is a crucial winner. However, it should not be overlooked that the operator industry has a high barrier to entry and is quite cautious when choosing ICT partners – the market is calling for solid solutions and the demonstration effect of industry benchmarks.
Huawei reconstructs the operator's intelligent IT base
Relying on more than 30 years of deep accumulation in the communications operator market and continuous breakthroughs in emerging technologies in the IT field, Huawei can provide operators with a total solution of intelligent IT base, including a fully collaborative distributed cloud and an all-scenario data storage pool.
The fully collaborative distributed cloud promotes operators to achieve ICT collaboration, cloud-network collaboration, and cloud-side collaboration. HUAWEI CLOUD is the first to introduce an innovative distributed cloud native solution that enables applications to be independent of region, cloud, and traffic restrictions, ensuring experience consistency. HUAWEI CLOUD also provides paaS services such as data and media for operators and industry-oriented aPaaS services to achieve the goal of serving everything.
As of 2021, HUAWEI CLOUD has deployed 27 Regions and 61 Zones around the world, covering more than 170 countries and regions, and has carried out in-depth cloud service cooperation with more than 120 operators. Facing industry digitalization, HUAWEI CLOUD fully opens 50+ scenario-based cloud services in nine vertical industries, including manufacturing, retail, and healthcare.
The all-scenario data storage pool can achieve operator data "running fast, saving use, and easy management". Huawei launched a leading OneStorage solution that enables resource allocation on demand, intelligent management, and multi-cloud convergence, supporting continuous upgrading of operators' data infrastructure and new service expansion.
By the end of 2021, Huawei has provided intelligent and efficient data storage services for more than 300 operators around the world, and OceanStor Dorado has entered Gartner's leader quadrant for 6 consecutive years, and its market position has reached a higher level.
In Europe, in response to the explosive growth of video services, Huawei OceanStor Pacific helped operators reduce their room space by 44% and energy consumption by 50%. To solve the problem of old data migration in nine data centers, Huawei provides professional data migration services to achieve zero interruption in online service migration and increase migration efficiency by about 60%.
In Latin America, huawei's all-flash solution reduced service outbound time by about 67% to address the service performance bottleneck caused by the growth of data volume in core systems. It is understood that at this summit, Huawei deepened the OneStorage strategy and released a series of innovative data infrastructure products.
A few years ago, the demographic dividend and traffic dividend brought impetus to operators for rapid development; and now it is in the dividend period of digital transformation, and highly reliable, efficient, and intelligent IT infrastructure is an important driver of its gorgeous transformation, and Huawei's overall solution undoubtedly provides operators with a new roadmap for growth. In his speech, Wang Tao said that Huawei is willing to work with operators to undertake new missions, build new capabilities, serve thousands of industries, and meet new growth.
Under the guidance of the grand vision, the giant ship carrying all aspects of the industrial chain has set sail. Taking the MWC Conference as a new starting point, Huawei will work with global operators and partners to continue to build a minimalist, green, and intelligent ICT infrastructure, adhere to the principle of science and technology for good, and strive to make life better, business smarter, society more inclusive, and the world greener with innovative technologies and product solutions.