Text/Haifeng looks at technology
More than a month after MWC22 Barcelona was held, in order to share new trends in the mobile industry, showcase new technological achievements, discuss industry hotspots and dynamics, and let MWC Barcelona's voice continue in China, GSMA Greater China launched PostMWC On March 31.
At this feast of ideas, Zhao Ming, CEO of Honor, Song Xiaodi, chief marketing officer of Huawei operator BG, and Xie Junshi, chief operating officer of ZTE, discussed the current hot 5G topic. There are many dry goods, and "Haifeng Looking At Technology" has been summarized as follows:
The most typical application scenarios and large-scale breakthrough points of 5GtoB?
Song Xiaodi said that the development of 5GtoB has entered a period of rapid development from 1 to N, and the 5GtoB private network in coal mines, ports and other industries is the most typical application in many industries, and operators have signed more than 3,000 commercial contracts for 5G industry applications.
In addition, Song Xiaodi pointed out that the breakthrough point of 5GtoB scale is to accelerate the deep integration of the industry and 5G, let the industry better understand 5G application scenarios, and let operators better understand the pain points of the industry, for example, the 5G uplink is the technical requirements of the industry's digital transformation.
5GtoB has a large number of application practices in the world, xie Junshi believes that 5GtoB will have a greater contribution in the three aspects of enterprise cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency increase. For example, pan-5G technology for manual assistance and substitution; cloud-based AGV to achieve flexible production lines; 8K machine vision for efficient quality inspection, and remote or unmanned mechanical operation.
ZTE showcased many typical application scenarios at the exhibition, such as Thailand's smart factory, Colombia's smart healthcare, Belgium's smart port, Austria's smart agricultural ecology and Nanjing Riverside Manufacturing Base.
Xie Junshi said that the premise of the 5GtoB large-scale breakthrough is to achieve a win-win situation for operators and enterprises, so it is necessary to solve three problems, one is to face market competition and build differentiation capabilities; the other is to focus on business logic and accelerate monetization policies; the third is to return to the essence of operation and explore the intensive path.
Development trends and innovations of 5GtoC applications and terminals
Zhao Ming proposed that the accelerated development of 5G and AI will bring users a disruptive application-level experience, and this experience will not be limited to mobile phones, but will be a cross-device, cross-system, cross-ecological all-scenario interconnection experience.
On the one hand, the form of intelligent terminals will be more diversified, and the folding screen market will usher in explosive growth in the next few years, and the folding screen will enter the era of the main machine. On the other hand, the performance battle of smart terminals will be upgraded to the experience battle, and users will pay more and more attention to security and privacy experience. Finally, the AI all-scenario intelligent ecosystem will be accelerated, and soft-hard collaboration will bring users a seamless experience of cross-device collaboration and a traceless service of cross-application collaboration.
Zhao Ming believes that the future digital ecology will not be centered on a certain terminal, but on people-centered, based on the main scenarios in life, such as sports health, mobile office, etc., to provide users with scenario-based solutions, so that technology can truly serve life.
Song Xiaodi said that 5G+XR will give priority to becoming the killer application of 5GtoC development, the 5G+XR industry has matured, and technological innovation has brought breakthroughs in terminal technology, not only the price has entered the level of popularization, but also the experience has been improved across generations. While the terminal is mature, XR content has also entered a period of rapid development, including content production, content ecology, content standards, etc. It is worth mentioning that the world's first pioneer operators to develop 5G+XR have achieved commercial success from it.
The source of the development of mobile consumer Internet comes from the insatiable nature of human nature and the continuous expansion of human capabilities. Xie Junshi believes that the new application of 5GtoC will also develop along this path, leapfrogging the audiovisual experience, creating a physical presence, and more instant interaction. For example, in the live broadcast of sports events, 360 degrees of random viewing, stretching and far to see arbitrarily, different camera positions to see independently.
At the same time, Xie Junshi said that the metacosm will be a popular application of 5GtoC in the future. Therefore, network capabilities, computing capabilities and storage capabilities will be important areas for the integration of 5G digital technologies.
5G-Advanced will bring new capabilities, new applications and new experiences
Xie Junshi believes that the focus of the next stage of 5G's technological evolution is 5G-Advanced, unlike the R15, R16 and R17 of 3GPP, which is the first phase of 5G system, 5G-Advanced is based on global 5G commercial deployment, enabling vertical industry practices, focusing on consumer better experience and extensive expansion of industry applications.
In December last year, the 3GPP identified the first version of 5G-Advanced, 28 projects of R18 network architecture, which will bring new capabilities, applications and experiences in the fields of eMBB broadband real-time new media interaction, network intelligence, high-precision positioning, low power consumption, IoT, industrial interconnection, synaesthesia fusion positioning, satellite, and cellular in-depth integration.
Xie Junshi said that ZTE will promote 5G-Advanced from the two aspects of technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and advocates on the evolution path of network deployment, problem-oriented, value-centered 1+2+3, and gradually build a digital twin world.
"1" refers to the solid foundation of chips, algorithms, and architectures, which are constantly rooted downwards to accumulate potential energy; "2" refers to the support of the trunk of the trunk that extends from the network to the business with wisdom and security as a double-chain gene; "3" refers to the continuous iterative innovation from the three aspects of ability, performance and efficiency to release kinetic energy and build a leafy canopy of 5G.
What role will China continue to play in the 5G era?
Song Xiaodi said that China has the world's largest 5G network, which plays a scale effect of a super-large economy in 5G terminals, applications, industry standards and business models. China has built and opened more than 1.4 million 5G base stations and more than 500 million 5G mobile terminal connections. In terms of 5GtoC, applications such as 5G+AR museums have taken the lead in realizing commercial closed-loop, forming more than 10,000 5G industry application cases in 5GtoB, involving more than 20 industries.
As the forerunners of 5G, China's three major operators have achieved remarkable commercial success, and will certainly play a key role in the development of global 5G in the future.