Xu Ziyang, President of ZTE: ZTE has refined the three major application innovation directions of 5G.

Mobile World Congress 221 is being held in Barcelona, Spain. On the first day of the launch, Xu Ziyang, President of ZTE, gave a keynote speech entitled "Number Kinetic Energy, Wisdom Growth". He said that with the commercialization of 5G networks, 5G applications have also entered an iterative development period. Although there are still challenges such as ecological construction and business models to face, the direction of innovation is becoming clearer. ZTE has refined three application innovation directions and a digital empowerment base by combining with the practice of industry, industry and ecological partners for more than two years.

Xu Ziyang pointed out that the three major application innovation directions include "expanding the boundary of control around individuals", "eliminating the digital divide around groups" and "facing industries and promoting industrial revolution"; The digital empowerment base has made innovative breakthroughs in ubiquitous broadband, sinking computing power, multi-dimensional integration and green energy saving, and has been continuously enhanced to help real-time strong interaction, agile application innovation, maximum resource efficiency and sustainable development. ZTE also continues to advocate industrial and ecological partners to establish deeper atomic capacity cooperation and grow together in the sun.

"ZTE sincerely hopes that through the concerted efforts of industry and ecological partners, it will continue to consolidate the digital base, accumulate potential energy and kinetic energy, and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of human society." Xu Ziyang said that 5G has been commercialized for more than two years, and there are more than 1.1 million 5G base stations in operation around the world. They not only make it possible to provide consumers with a brand-new experience of ultra-high definition, deep immersion and strong interaction, but also gradually penetrate into thousands of industries and empower them to transform and upgrade their digital intelligence.

He revealed that ZTE's Nanjing Binjiang 5G production base can produce five 5G base stations every minute and send them to the world. It is practicing "making 5G with 5G" with practical actions, and the 5G network has achieved full coverage in the production base. Combined with MEC, ten typical 5G applications, such as cloudization AGV, 8K machine vision, cloudization PLC, intelligent warehousing, industrial wear, digital twinning and production site monitoring, have been deployed in the whole production process, and have been artificially realized.

in addition to its own practice, ZTE has joined hands with more than 9 operators and more than 5 partners around the world to explore a wide range of innovative applications of 5G in more than 15 industries, forming a large number of innovative application cases in the industry. In factories in Thailand, ports in Belgium, farms in Austria, industries, transportation, electricity, environmental protection and many other fields in China, we are delighted to see that changes brought by new information technologies such as pan-5G are quietly taking place.

Xu Ziyang said that the three innovative development directions of 5G applications have gradually become clear. As far as changing society is concerned, the application of 5G is still in the period of innovation incubation and iterative development, but several obvious directions can already be clearly distinguished.

First of all, "around the individual, expand the boundary of sensory control and bring infinite possibilities". The new network and cloud services are blurring the boundary between the digital world and the physical world: smart home and whole house intelligence make life more convenient; Even during the epidemic, people traveled around the world through AR/VR at home, competed in team games with friends, and participated in various sports events and concerts. When coming outdoors, drones have replaced people's eyes to extend freely, and applications such as autonomous driving, machine vision, unmanned excavation, unmanned mines, and machine rescue have also paved the way to maximize the protection of life and property and production safety.

further, it is to "face the industry and promote the industrial revolution". All parties in the industrial chain focus on the modern industrial revolution and use information technology to accelerate social progress. Smart factories make traditional manufacturing reduce costs, improve efficiency and improve quality; Intelligent transportation network helps people to travel with low carbon and improve social operation; 5G helps the power grid to realize ubiquitous links with high timing accuracy and low delay at lower cost, build a smart power grid that is reliable, safe, economical, efficient, environmentally friendly and safe to use, and help peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality achieve its goals; After using 5G in agricultural technology, it supports intelligent and refined management, and no longer depends on the weather to eat; The water quality and air quality under the governance of 5G are improving our living environment and achieving sustainable development.

it is very important to consolidate the digital base and empower thousands of industries to digitize and even intelligently transform. Xu Ziyang said that today's innovative applications still need to solve a series of problems, such as ecological construction, economies of scale and business model. They may not be the killer applications in the future, but in the seemingly fragmented industrial scene applications, from the perspective of the underlying core competence, ZTE has found a universal demand: digital empowerment base.

He said that with the development of the information society for decades, the quantity and quality of data have changed significantly. With the advent of the Internet of Everything era, the core of digital transformation in thousands of industries has become data-driven, and the network that was previously driven by computing or processing will also develop in the direction of data-driven, which requires the digital base to make continuous innovations and breakthroughs in "ubiquitous broadband", "sinking computing power" and "multi-dimensional integration" Only by consolidating this digital base can the digital and even intelligent transformation of thousands of industries grow freely, and operators can also obtain new market space expansion and medium-and long-term benign development.

1. "Ubiquitous broadband", which can interact strongly in real time

The enhancement of network capability is concentrated in three aspects: the continuous improvement of access bandwidth, more agile network and enhanced resource scheduling capability.

the first level is dual gigabit access, one is wireless duplex/highly reliable broadband access represented by 5G uplink enhancement, and the other is wired broadband enhancement represented by gigabit optical access.

the second level is the agility of the network. IP network improves flexibility and programmability through SRV6, and realizes cross-domain full path and fine granularity control; Based on FlexE, VPN*** sharing, independent VPN tunnel and 1M+ small particle hard slice can be realized to meet the special requirements of different services such as low delay, low jitter, super reliability and safe isolation. With the flattening of optical networks, metropolitan and backbone optical networks have evolved from ring networking to Mesh networking, which improves the capacity of optical networks, reduces the time delay between nodes and increases the protection capacity. The core network is based on cloud native, which better supports flexible, agile and flexible deployment and operation.

the third level is the improvement of network resource scheduling ability. the network architecture gradually turns to data-centric, which promotes the separation of control and forwarding, and the functions are decoupled from each other. the unified scheduling of network resources based on SDN can better provide end-to-end automatic slicing arrangement, minute-level service automatic opening and flexible slicing operation.

2. "Computing power sinking", cloud-edge-end collaboration, helps agile innovation

"Computing power sinking" mainly stems from the demand of efficient data processing, and supports business agile innovation through cloud-edge-end collaboration.

In the era of Everything Smart, the quantity of data has obviously increased, while the quality has obviously changed, that is, the proportion of unstructured data (such as voice, images, etc.) has greatly increased. At the same time, data processing has become increasingly diversified and complicated with the introduction of deep learning algorithms such as neural networks. Based on data security, transmission efficiency, processing efficiency and other considerations, the original computing power on the cloud side and the application of different types of loads need to sink. Different from the relatively abundant resources on the cloud side, the computing power on the cloud side often needs to carry many types of applications within a limited resource range, so it is even more necessary to carry out in-depth optimization of software, hardware and chip-level infrastructure on the basis of standards and openness, and deploy different types of loads in a hyper-integrated way to maximize the efficiency of computing power resources on the cloud side. At the same time, the end-edge-cloud must cooperate efficiently to ensure that computing resources and services can be scaled up and down as needed to support agile innovation and rapid iteration of the business.

3. "Multidimensional integration", which maximizes resource efficiency

includes cloud network integration, soft and hard integration, AI integration and endogenous security. First of all, for digital scenes and applications in the industry, it is necessary to realize that the cloud is born on demand and the network moves with the cloud. Last year, ZTE put forward the "Precision Cloud Network" solution to practice this concept, providing customers with a simple, convenient and economical customized solution for cloud network integration, realizing the integration of capabilities and services and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

secondly, for business success, cost performance is an eternal magic weapon. Simply looking at the development trend of software and hardware, the software is more flexible and agile in the direction of cloud, micro-service and component; Hardware is deeply optimized to tap the performance potential, and is increasingly standardized to support dynamic expansion. However, in the post-Moore era, single depth potential mining and horizontal collaborative global optimization are equally important, and the boundary between software and hardware will become more blurred, focusing more on scenarios and applications, and balancing fast and slow, flexibility and performance. We will see more and more innovations such as hardware accelerator cards based on general equipment and heterogeneous chips based on software and hardware collaborative optimization. From a certain point of view, both software and hardware are building blocks, which need to abandon rules and regulations, optimize deeply and iterate quickly.

the essence of AI is to tap the value of data to the greatest extent. based on big data and visual training models, ai fusion realizes more efficient intelligent network operation and more accurate business operation through cross-domain collaboration among systems and nodes horizontally and hierarchical collaboration from center to air interface resource arrangement vertically.

Endogenous security consists of a series of security functions to form an integrated self-aware, self-adaptive and self-growing network immune system, which is built synchronously when the network is built, and can continuously evolve and grow independently during the network operation, so as to continuously guarantee the security of the network, services and data.

4. "Saving Energy and Reducing Consumption", green grid

According to the latest report of GSMA, the annual carbon emissions generated by the mobile communication industry account for .4% of the total global carbon emissions, and it is also the direction of the whole industry to achieve carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions as soon as possible. In order to build an energy-saving and consumption-reducing green grid, ZTE advocates taking active measures from the whole life cycle of the network.

In the upstream manufacturing process, relying on 5G+ industrial Internet, MEC, AI and other technologies, we can achieve more efficient and intelligent production, save energy and reduce emissions; In the innovation of base station products, the energy efficiency of products can be continuously improved through chip design, high efficiency power amplifier and high integration design; In the network construction, the site can consider introducing clean energy and more efficient power preparation technology, and the data center can adopt new heat dissipation technologies such as preset modular design and liquid cooling to further reduce carbon emissions. In the network operation stage, a green energy-saving scheme similar to PowerPilot can be used to schedule and allocate services reasonably through intelligent algorithms, and the energy consumption per bit can be optimized on the premise of ensuring the user experience; And through this full-cycle design and delivery, help operators to build green grid.

Xu Ziyang said that the global commercialization of 5G is still in the period of growth and development in recent two years. In addition to the major technical efforts just mentioned, the commercial success of 5G still faces a series of uncertain challenges, such as ecological construction and business model, which requires continuous exploration and innovation. As a member of industry and ecology, ZTE has accumulated and precipitated for a long time, regardless of the underlying capabilities such as chip design, database and operating system, or the end-to-end DICT products and solutions of wired, wireless, computing facilities and terminals, as well as the application innovation of 5G scenarios. ZTE is willing to open its atomic capabilities to industrial and ecological partners and join hands with all parties to grow in the sun.

(Original title: Xu Ziyang, President of ZTE: ZTE Extracts Three Innovative Directions of 5G Applications).