5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
author：China Electronic News
5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
China Mobile Liaoning Company carried out 5G-A network construction at the port
On April 15, at a series of working group meetings of the Third Generation Mobile Communications Partnership (3GPP) held in Hunan, 3GPP said that 3GPP is currently focusing on the standards research of the second version of 5G-A (that is, the Rel-19 version). This is interpreted by the industry as the maturity of the 5G-A Rel-18 version, and the basic conditions for 5G-A commercial use have been met.
This is also reflected on the industrial side. Since China Mobile's first 5G-A commercial deployment on March 28, the 5G-A industry chain has been particularly active: in early April, China Mobile Liaoning completed the country's first 5G-A trial commercial verification based on sea scenarios, and China Unicom Hebei achieved 5G-A In mid-April, China Telecom Shanghai opened the country's first 5G-A integrated base station commercial demonstration zone in the Chuansha area of Pudong, and the first 5G-A experience area in Jiangxi Province landed in the Honggutan area of Nanchang...... The reporter learned that both network providers and equipment manufacturers have made new plans to promote the global commercial process of 5G-A, and the 5G-A industry chain has sounded the "rallying call".
Roll out network deployments around the world
In recent years, the R&D and application of 5G-A technology has always been an important task for telecom operators. In 2024, global telecom operators will make great progress in 5G-A networking and trial application. Li Peng, Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, Huawei, said: "2024 is the first year of 5G-A commercialization, and combined with the development of cloud and AI technologies, there is great potential for operators' commercial growth. ”
5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
China Unicom installed a 5G-A synaesthesia base station in the Nanjing Civil Unmanned Aviation Test Zone
In January this year, China Unicom completed the country's first 5G-A large-scale networking demonstration in Beijing; in March this year, China Mobile launched the world's first 5G-A commercial deployment, announced the first batch of 100 5G-A network commercial city list, and said that it will expand the 5G-A network to 300 cities across the country within this year; Hong Kong telecom (HKT) set up a 5G-A network pilot in a shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui to explore the application of 5G-A network in medical and manufacturing scenarios...... Operators' 5G-A networking work is in full swing.
At the same time, focusing on industrial manufacturing scenarios, operators have also launched "tailor-made" 5G-A applications for industrial scenarios: China Unicom has launched new 5G-A products for industrial scenarios, such as Yanfei's 5G RedCap product matrix and Gewu platform PLUS, realizing the integration of 5G-A and the Internet of Things; China Mobile has released ten innovative 5G-A application achievements such as integrated infrastructure and high-certainty industrial base stations, enabling applications in multi-field production scenarios with 5G-A.
Internationally, 5G-A is also hot: French telecom operator Orange is actively exploring new applications for 5G-A in the fields of live video, XR (extended reality) and logistics, while UAE mobile network operator du sees great potential for 5G-A technology in smart home and industrial applications......
Based on this, Li Qiang, General Manager of the Planning Department of China Mobile, said: "At present, operators should accelerate the construction of 5G-A business models, optimize infrastructure, promote application scenarios, and enhance the industrial ecosystem. ”
Follow up all links of the industrial chain
Ken Hu, Huawei's Rotating Chairman, said that the next generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are constantly evolving, and the demand for artificial intelligence, large language models, and autonomous driving continues to grow, and networks need to be upgraded. In his opinion, 5G-A is the best solution to meet the needs of future industrial development.
5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
Before China Mobile Hunan launched the 5G-A network construction at Hehua Airport, Huawei showcased a full range of 5G-A product solutions for all scenarios, including 5G-A, F5G-A, and Net5.5G, and released eight innovative 5G-A practices. Cao Ming, President of Huawei's Wireless Network Product Line, introduced its 5G-A related products, saying, "Huawei's full range of 5G-A product solutions help global operators move towards 5G-A in all bands and multiple paths with two core capabilities: 'Native Giga' and 'Native Green'. ”
At the same time, ZTE also released ten innovative products for the 5G-A era, and released six scenario solutions for the 5G-A field from the perspectives of improving network performance and enabling industrial intelligent upgrading. Ni Fei, Senior Vice President and President of ZTE's Terminal Business Division, told reporters: "In the future, ZTE will continue to invest in 5G-A networks and other fields, empower the digital transformation of industries with high quality, and help stimulate innovation and productivity more safely and efficiently." He said that he will cooperate with operators to carry out technical verification, and make a strategic layout of the market in advance to support the future development of the company's wireless products in the technical directions that are expected to enter the landing stage, such as global synaesthesia, NTN, and Redcap (5G lightweight).
Ericsson has also made significant progress in the validation of the relevant technologies. Wu Riping, General Manager of Ericsson China's Network Product Solutions, said that Ericsson takes the "5G New Wave" as the theme of 5G-A, and carries out technological innovation around the four pillars of performance, energy saving, empowerment and intelligence to promote the development of the 5G-A industry. Wu Riping told reporters that previously, Ericsson has verified 5CC CA and 6CC CA technology in the live network, and used millimeter wave spectrum to provide network support for large-scale events such as the "Super Bowl"; in March this year, Ericsson cooperated with the UAE mobile network operator du to verify the medium and high frequency 10CC CA technology in the live network, with a downlink rate of 16.7Gbps. He emphasized that its 5G network equipment is fully commercially capable of 5G RedCap.
In order for 5G-A networks to be commercialized on a large scale, in addition to the necessary hardware equipment, the baseband chips that enable terminal equipment to support 5G-A networks are also crucial. Yang Guang, senior chief analyst of industry analyst Omdia, said: "At present, the first technical feature of deployment is mainly carrier aggregation, that is, multiple 5G frequencies are bundled together, so there are requirements for baseband chips and RF chips. ”
Based on this, well-known chip manufacturers in the industry have carried out R&D and testing of 5G-A related technologies. Previously, Qualcomm and Nokia Bell completed the 5G-A ultra-high-speed test based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 baseband chip and RF system, as well as Nokia Bell's commercial 5G mmWave base station and core network system equipment.
Towards mature commercial use
With the maturity of 5G-A technology and equipment, the 5G-A industry chain is gradually improving, and 5G-A networks have begun to emerge in B-end and C-end applications. On the B side, 5G-A network has entered the factory building and has become a new choice for the manufacturing industry to set up industrial Internet, and on the C side, 5G-A has taken root in communication equipment and has become the "new standard" for smart phones.
5G-A Industry Chain Sounds the "Rally Number" for Commercial Use
With the help of the 5G-A ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency flexible production line, Baoding Automation Technology Branch of Jingcheng Engineering Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Great Wall Seiko Automation) has achieved a "comprehensive upgrade" for its automotive door welding production line. "Traditional industrial control needs to rely on wired networks to achieve equipment control, and cable wear is unavoidable, which not only incurs high maintenance costs, but also causes production line downtime losses. Yuan Zhanjiang, deputy general manager of the Industrial Intelligence Division of Great Wall Seiko Automation, told the China Electronics News, "The 5G-A flexible production line can optimize the traditional cables, realize the network wireless in high-precision production, reduce losses and increase production capacity." The reporter learned that after the 5G-A flexible production line was put into operation, the production line avoided an average annual downtime loss of 60 hours.
In the mine of Jinling Coal Mine in Henan Province, the 5G-A network has built a "new bridge" for the backhaul of surveillance footage. Yuan Bo, chief scientist of Shaanxi Zhiyin Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters: "In order to achieve the goal of fewer people and no one underground, the perception device and high-definition camera installed in the mine are 'just needed'. However, due to the special environment of the mine, it is difficult to install the base station, the real-time return delay of the monitoring screen is high, and the clarity of the picture is not ideal. "After the completion of the 5G-A network deployment, the uplink rate of Jinling Coal Mine is as high as 500M to 1.1G, and it supports the video backhaul of 100 HD cameras.
He Liu, general manager of Shanghai Boao Automation System Co., Ltd., said in an interview with a reporter from China Electronics News: "The development direction of the future factory is logical discretization, centralized scheduling, and flexible network. He pointed out that the entry of 5G-A into the core industrial control will bring more development opportunities to China's industrial control, thereby bringing new vitality to the development of new industrialization.
In the C-end market, 5G-A is "entering" smart terminals and gradually integrating into people's daily life. In March this year, OPPO officially announced that its OPPO Find X7 series will be the first to support 5G-A mobile communication; soon after, Vivo and Xiaomi have posted 5G-A speed test photos of their flagship models, indicating that their new mobile phones will support 5G-A network. In addition, Huawei said that some of its models can support 5G-A networks through software upgrades. China Mobile also said that it plans to promote the launch of more than 20 5G-A terminals in the industrial chain during the year, develop more than 20 million 5G-A end users, and provide users with a higher rate and hierarchical guarantee experience.
When it comes to the application prospects of 5G-A networks in more smart terminals in the future, Yang Guang believes that in addition to smartphone scenarios, 5G-A is also expected to bring a new atmosphere to terminal scenarios with high network requirements such as XR headsets and glasses-free 3D, which require high network bandwidth and latency.
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