ISTANBUL, Nov. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Global MBB Forum 2024 (MBBF 2024), GTI kicked off the global recruitment for the Intelligent RAN, Ubiquitous AI Project, aimed at accelerating the two-way empowerment between 5G-A and AI in its 5G-A×AI Development Program. There was a discussion on the convergence of 5G-A and AI with world-leading operators and industry partners, including GSMA, China Mobile, Telefónica, AIS, HKT, Zain, Leju Robot, and Huawei. By exploring innovative technologies, applications, and cooperation opportunities, they aim to unlock new opportunities for business growth. GTI holding the global recruitment ceremony Built on its 5G-A×AI Development Program, GTI's Intelligent RAN, Ubiquitous AI Project serves two major purposes. First, it will combine 5G-A networks and AI to enable intelligent O&M, network optimization, energy saving, and experience monetization, thereby helping global operators improve their network productivity. Second, the project will expedite the development of the mobile AI industry by integrating AI into various industries, upgrading network capacity to better support AI services, and promoting the innovation of industry pilot benchmarks and high-value use cases. Since the commercial adoption of 5G, approximately 5.94 million 5G base stations have been deployed worldwide, serving 1.87 billion 5G users. As an evolution and enhancement of 5G, 5G-A has also entered commercial use and is creating new value for individuals, families, and industries. Generative AI technologies are maturing and increasingly merging with 5G-A to further drive the development of intelligent applications and multi-modal interactions. To make the most out of this fusion, GTI launched the 5G-A×AI Development Program in May this year, with a vision to explore innovative applications, create new business value, and accelerate the development of the mobile AI industry. Since its inception, the program has gained extensive support, with its initial membership consisting of over 20 operators and partners from across Asia, Americas, and Europe. Together, these members have actively participated in core tasks and made significant progress in setting up open labs, building an open collaborative innovation community, and exploring innovative use cases related to 5G-A×AI integration. The program has established and is running four open labs to provide basic environments, equipment facilities, industry application scenarios, and other resources for 5G-A×AI integration innovation centered on AI for RAN and RAN for AI. To foster the open collaborative innovation community, GTI and GSMA Foundry launched the first batch of "Challenges" in September this year, targeting key obstacles in the integration of 5G-A and AI and sparking new cooperation opportunities. The program has been exploring high-value digital and intelligent use cases in scenarios such as daily life, heavy industry, energy, transportation, and municipal management. Drawing on success stories in integrating 5G-A and AI, it has developed replicable business model templates as references for value creation and monetization. Established in 2011, GTI has grown into an influential international cooperation platform in the global mobile communications field and has expanded to 146 operator members and 262 industry partner members. Looking ahead, it will continue to promote the integrated innovation of 5G-A and AI in technology, business, and ecosystem. This will support the digital and intelligent transformation of economies and societies, uncover new revenue opportunities, and propel industry growth.
ISTANBUL, Nov. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2024), the World Broadband Association (WBBA), IPv6 Forum, Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization (AICTO), government agencies, device vendors, and over 10 global carriers launched the Net5.5G Pioneer Program. This initiative calls on industry players to accelerate the commercial deployment of Net5.5G and foster the prosperity of the data communication industry. Guests from industry organizations, government agencies, carriers, and device vendors participating in the launch ceremony of the Net5.5G Pioneer Program Net5.5G, the next-generation IP network, is a crucial Internet infrastructure upgrade for the intelligent era. It drives inter-generational transitions, facilitating more organized planning and promotion of the data communication industry's evolution, thereby significantly enhancing fundamental network capabilities. The launch of the Net5.5G Pioneer Program will expedite the global commercial deployment of Net5.5G. Martin Creaner, Director General of the WBBA, elaborated on the three categories of the program: thought pioneers, city pioneers, and commercial pioneers. Thought pioneers guide industry development and improve the standards system. City pioneers drive policy implementation and facilitate top-level planning and construction of regional network infrastructures. Commercial pioneers share global best practices in Net5.5 commercial deployment. Martin envisioned the Net5.5G Pioneer Program acting as a catalyst, uniting stakeholders to drive the widespread adoption of Net5.5G technologies, foster industry development, accelerate global commercial deployment, and stimulate new growth for carriers. In addition, to recognize carriers who have made remarkable achievements in Net5.5G deployment, the Net5.5G Pioneer Award Ceremony was held, honoring more than 10 global carriers. Representatives from leading carriers, including Turkcell Türkiye etc., shared their best practices in commercializing Net5.5G. Turkcell Türkiye said it will continue to build high-quality network infrastructures, construct networks oriented to Net5.5G, and commercially deploy key technologies such as 400GE/SRv6/Network Digital Map on the target network to provide premium digital services to customers. In addition, the AICTO shared its efforts in advancing Net5.5G commercialization in the Arab and African regions to realize the Arab Horizon 2030 and build a high-speed and high-quality future network infrastructure based on Net5.5G. The Net5.5G Pioneer Program is expected to unite all industry stakeholders and accelerate the global commercial deployment of Net5.5G. As the next-generation Internet evolves toward Net5.5G, industry organizations, government agencies, carriers, and device vendors are working together to drive innovation in technical standards, policies, and commercial use, fostering the development of the data communication industry and unleashing productivity for the intelligent world. The 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum, jointly held by the Broadband Commission, WBBA and Huawei, is the premier global summit in the UBB industry.
ISTANBUL, Nov. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2024 (MBBF 2024) kicked off on October 30 in Istanbul, Türkiye. On the same day, the Core Network Industry Salon themed "Intelligence Reshapes Business" was successfully held. Pan Guixin, Chief Innovation Officer from China Unicom Guangdong, delivered a speech at the salon, introducing the operator's continuous innovations in the mobile core network field and success in improving user experiences. According to Mr. Pan, China Unicom Guangdong launches the U Mobile Intranet solution, which allows mobile users to remotely access their home and enterprise intranets. Conventionally, when mobile users remotely access a home or enterprise intranet, their data needs to travel through the relay agent on the Internet. This means their data transmission rate and latency depend on public resources on the Internet. The U Mobile Intranet solution confines all data connections within a customer's intranet, unleashing the full potential of end-to-end network capabilities and providing users with high-speed, low-latency intranet services anytime and anywhere. The U Mobile Intranet solution for large-sized enterprises with 5G private networks utilizes uplink classifier (UL CL) technology to drive innovation. The solution bridges the public and private network UPFs on the carrier's intranet, ensuring data flows stay within the carrier's intranet. In this way, it brings a new mobile office model that enables users to access intranet services anytime and anywhere. The U Mobile Intranet solution for small- and medium-sized enterprises and families that use fixed broadband networks relies on a software development kit (SDK). The SDK is introduced by China Unicom Guangdong to the optical modem on these networks to deliver intelligent connectivity of everything. With this solution, a UDM capable of authenticating digital identities can authenticate all network devices connected through the optical modem for security. Moreover, the core network UPF and the optical modem's SDK serve as two anchors to directly bridge mobile and fixed networks, achieving the industry's first fixed-mobile convergence and improving user experience greatly. According to the statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), there are 666 million fixed broadband users in China, meaning that there is huge market potential. Against this backdrop, China Unicom Guangdong has launched 5G-A digital smart home products featuring three TB-level highlights "TB-level traffic, TB-level learning resources, and TB-level storage space" — in Shenzhen. These products strengthen the U Mobile Intranet solution with 5G-A, ultra-fast broadband, all-optical networking, ultra-HD video, and local storage. They aim to meet users' diversified demands for work, life, entertainment, and security, ushering in the 5G-A digital smart home era. Furthermore, China Unicom Guangdong is exploring in-depth collaboration with enterprises such as Oray, zSpace, and Hikvision to enhance future growth potential of the U Mobile Intranet solution. As technologies continue to advance and application scenarios proliferate, the U Mobile Intranet will ultimately serve millions of users, giving them a more secure, convenient, and personalized smart life experience.
ISTANBUL, Nov. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Li Peng, Huawei's Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, delivered a keynote speech at the Global MBB Forum 2024. He shared his views on the topics about what intelligence mean for our ICT industry, and how to make the most of new opportunities when AI is starting to change every aspect of our lives and work. Li Peng, Huawei’s Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service delivered a Day 1 keynote speech at the Global MBB Forum 2024 According to Li, in the mobile AI era, intelligence will become a universal service. Everyone will be able to use it anytime, anywhere. And the mobile industry will play an important role in this process, just like we did with voice calling and the mobile internet. In this new era, we will also see new changes in how information is created, shared, and used. These changes will pose new challenges for networks, but also open the doors for huge new opportunities. AI devices will enable new forms of interaction. This will give rise to a better experience and greater productivity. According to IDC, by 2028, global AI smartphone shipments will reach more than 900 million units. And there will be over 1,000 AI-native devices on the market. We will interact with these devices in many new ways, including voice, gestures, and even emotions. The experience will be smoother, and the devices will understand us better – so interactions will be much more efficient. For example, new generation AI glasses can read lips, with over 95% accuracy in noisy environments. In addition, AI agents will change how we work and live. They will bring intelligent services everywhere and drive explosive growth in data. By 2030, most people will have a personal AI agent to help at home, work, and for travel. These assistants will work nonstop, generating and processing over 10 times more data than today. In industry, AI robots will play a key role in R&D, production, QA, and logistics. And each robot will process more than 10 GB of data per hour. In total, by 2030, AI agents will process 120 times more data than today. New surges in data from AI will drive structural changes in traffic models. In traditional traffic models, data flows in a single direction. Like video content from data centers to smartphones, the data is general, and the flow is linear. AI will transform this flow. Data will be personalized and flow in multiple directions. For example, training large models requires super-fast transmission between data centers. At the same time, AI applications and AIGC need to transmit data between edge, cloud, and devices. There will be a rise in east-west traffic, and even mesh connections between multiple types of devices and hosts. With the structural changes in traffic models, network optimization will be more critical than ever. If we want to seize new opportunities in the mobile AI era, we need to reshape across four areas: network services, infrastructure, O&M, and business models. First, services. Mobile products and services are the perfect access points for AI, so we need to reshape them in order to better meet demand. For individual consumers, carriers can take advantage of common touch points to provide intelligent services, such as for calls, messaging, and customer service. 5G New Calling is a great example. Chinese carriers launched this service, and it's transforming the voice call experience. For example, users can use AI to create their own digital avatars for voice calls, access real-time translation, and even have their AI assistant book appointments. For home scenarios, we're helping smart homes go smarter with AI agents. One carrier launched an AI box that supports applications like interactive sports watching and AI fitness for TVs. As a result, TV usage doubled and ARPU grew by 28%. Outside the home, carriers can also provide stable, high-speed connectivity for carmakers to enable intelligent cockpits and vehicle-cloud collaboration. This helps deliver a safer and more efficient travel experience. For SMEs, carriers can provide affordable AI services and devices. For industry customers, carriers can combine connectivity, networking, and AI capabilities to enable intelligent transformation. Second, to support a wide range of experience requirements for AI services, we need to reshape network infrastructure. To deliver the most natural interaction, an AI assistant needs less than 300 milliseconds end-to-end latency, which means that air interface latency needs to be less than 20 milliseconds. Carriers can build AI-centric networks that support deterministic access, elastic scheduling, and lossless WAN. This can help deliver on-demand, reliable connections between cloud, edge, and devices. Third, more complex networks mean more challenging O&M. This is also an area where AI for networks can help. For service operations, AI agents can support real-time simulation of multi-modal data. This helps carriers to evaluate network resources more efficiently, and provision new services more quickly. For network maintenance, AI agents can automate task planning and orchestration, solving problems caused by software. At the same time, copilots can help field engineers to quickly locate and fix any hardware problems. Last but not least, mobile AI is a great opportunity to go beyond traffic and start monetizing experience. We need to reshape our business models, too. More than 30 carriers in Europe have launched speed-based mobile plans. Consumers are willing to pay more for a guaranteed experience. Chinese carriers are also exploring multi-factor monetization. Through AI-based services like AI boxes for homes, New Calling, and cloud phones, they can open up new revenue streams based on computing power, storage, and VIP services. For enterprise customers, carriers can also learn from cloud service models, and expose network capabilities with open APIs. Carriers can monetize these capabilities, and expand into the B2B2C market. Many leading carriers in China, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia Pacific are already leading the way forward. They have verified AI service capabilities on live 5G-A networks, covering a wide range of scenarios for individuals, homes, travel, and business. Moving forward, there are two things we can do to capitalize on new opportunities in the mobile AI era. First, preparing our networks to support AI. That means boosting network capabilities, especially uplink, latency, and capacity. Second, using AI to support more complex networks, in order to help automate O&M, optimize network efficiency, and guarantee a solid user experience. Li said that the opportunities are great, and the best time to act is now. Huawei is ready to work with carriers and industry partners to build networks for AI, and AI for networks. Together, we can unleash incredible new value.
After Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo, entry into Taiwan region brings the DC platform's footprint to 4 markets in Asia reaching nearly 70MW of IT co-location capacity in prime locations The newest IDC that is AI-ready with power secured amidst the current energy challenges in Taiwan SINGAPORE and TAIPEI , Nov. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Empyrion Digital, a next-generation digital infrastructure platform, is pleased to announce its strategic expansion into Taiwan to develop a 7MW (IT Load) edge co-location data centre in Neihu, Taipei. With 10MW of power already secured, this move comes at an opportune time when Taiwan's energy grid is facing power shortages, creating potential challenges for other new data centre entrants. Located in Neihu, a key technology business district of Taipei which is home to the headquarters of gaming, electronics and tech companies, the Taipei data centre (TW1) is strategically located in a network dense area where east and west cable landing stations converge. TW1's latest design aims to cater to the needs of both cloud and high-performance AI computing which current legacy data centres are struggling to accommodate. As one of the most populous Northeast Asian economies, Taiwan is home to over 23 million people and best known for being a fast-moving technology and R&D hub, and semiconductor powerhouse. Taiwan is also emerging as a key data centre hub in North Asia and its data centres being the critical infrastructure enabling cloud and AI, is expected to generate co-location revenue of US$226.2 million in 2024. This growth is projected to reach US$346 million by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 8.88% during the forecast period (2024-2029)[1]. Traditionally, the Taiwan co-location market is mainly driven by domestic demand but there has been an uptick in demand from international cloud, content providers and enterprises entering the market. With limited supply coming onboard over the next few years, Empyrion Digital's entry into Taiwan is primed to meet this increased inbound demand, including those from the banking and financial sectors, given the sensitivity and security requirements of this sector. Another key differentiator of TW1 is its focus on sustainability. By adopting the use of advanced cooling technology and building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), TW1 will achieve a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.33 or lower and a Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) of close to net zero. Upon completion, TW1 will also receive Taiwan's Green Building Gold Certification, reinforcing Empyrion Digital's status as a leader in sustainable digital infrastructure. Mr. Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital, said: "We are excited to expand into Taiwan and this investment is another step forward in the company's ambition to grow in Asia where land and power are scarce. With its robust semiconductor industry and tech-savvy talent pool, Taiwan is a strategic location for us to build the next generation of AI-ready data centres. Our presence here will ensure that businesses in Taiwan have access to the digital infrastructure necessary to stay competitive and foster deeper collaboration between Taiwan and global technology ecosystems." He added, "TW1 will add to our existing data centre cluster in Singapore, Korea and Japan, ensuring we are well-positioned to capture wholesale and edge co-location demand and empower our customers with flexible deployment solutions across the four markets." Construction for the TW1 data centre is expected to commence in 2025 and be ready for service by 2027. By end 2025, Empyrion Digital is poised to grow its pan Asian platform to over 170MW (IT Load) across Asia. The platform currently operates a 7.7 MW data centre in Singapore, is constructing a 29.4 MW data centre in Seoul, and will commence construction of a 25MW data centre in Tokyo in early 2025. About Empyrion Digital Empyrion Digital is a next-generation digital infrastructure platform committed to sustainability and the highest standards of responsible operating performance. Green by design, we develop and operate robust, scalable and carrier-neutral data centres for hyperscale and enterprise customers across Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, Empyrion Digital is a portfolio company of Seraya Partners, a leading Asia infrastructure fund with USD 800 million of assets under management as of 31 Dec 2023 For more information, visit www.empyriondigital.com. [1] Source: Mordor Intelligence
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2024), James Chen, President of Huawei's Carrier Business, delivered a speech entitled "Network+AI, Unleashing More Business Value". Chen said, "To explore the potential of AI, the 'FOUR NEW' strategy — new hub, new services, new experience, and new operation is crucial. It helps carriers to expand market boundaries, foster innovative services, and enhance market competitiveness, while also optimize network O&M and achieve business success. Huawei is committed to working with global carriers and partners to unleash more business value and forge a win-win digital and intelligent future through the "FOUR NEW" strategy." James Chen, President of Carrier Business, Huawei, delivering a keynote speech As ultra-broadband (UBB) and AI industries go from strength to strength, the number of gigabit fiber broadband users worldwide has exceeded 300 million, and the average speed of home broadband packages has reached 570 Mbit/s. There are over 1,300 AI foundation models and more than 30,000 AI-related enterprises globally. The UBB industry and AI industry are mutually reinforcing, driving the wide adoption of gigabit broadband. Huawei believes that the "FOUR NEW" strategy is key to unleashing more business value through network+AI. New Hub: The new Hub is the AI Hub for home services. The core of the AI Hub is the development of AI agents. AI agents need to connect people, things, and applications, understand and respond to the requirements of family members, control smart devices to meet family requirements, and connect AI applications to expand the boundaries of home services. The new hub helps carriers achieve business breakthroughs in the home market. New Services: Carriers enable new services and aggregate high-quality contents with AI to gradually build a home AI application ecosystem. AI not only can upgrade traditional services, such as interactive fitness and motion-sensing games, but also innovate home services, such as home service robots, health care, and education, etc. It improves quality of life and gradually builds a home AI ecosystem. New Experience: New services such as cloud gaming, live commerce, AI searches for photos and videos, are emerging one after another. These services have high requirements on network quality, including latency, uplink and downlink bandwidth, and jitter. This brings new network monetization opportunities to carriers. Carriers can seize monetization opportunities through new business models, such as latency-based charging, upstream bandwidth-based charging, and AI-function based charging. High-quality service experience requires high-quality networks. Carriers build "Premium vertical and premium horizontal" high-quality networks to support high-quality service experience and business monetization. The key to building a "Premium vertical and premium horizontal" network is to build 1 ms connections between data centers and 1 ms access to a data center. New Operation: As carriers' network scale is getting larger, autonomous driving network is becoming more important. AI supports high-level network autonomous driving and improves network operation efficiency. Huawei's L4 autonomous driving network based on the Telecom Foundation Model helps operators reduce customer complaints, shorten the complaint closure time, improve service provisioning efficiency, reduce the number of site visits, and accelerate fault rectification. In the wave of digital intelligence transformation, the "FOUR NEW" strategy is not only the embodiment of network technology innovation, but also the important driving force for continuously releasing network business value. New Hub, New Services, New Experience, and New Operation support each other and together form a complete road to digital intelligence business success. In the future, Huawei will continue to remain customer-centric, work with global carriers and partners to explore the digital intelligence era, accelerate the release of the business value of network + AI, and embrace a prosperous intelligent world.
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