Huawei's Li Jie: Leading with innovation and continuously consolidating high-quality 5G networks

[Shanghai, China, June 5, 2023] At the 2nd Mobile Network High-Quality Development Forum during the 2023 China International Information and Communication Exhibition, Li Jie, Vice President of Huawei's Wireless Network Product Line, delivered a keynote speech on "Innovation-led, Continuously Consolidating 5G High-Quality Networks". Li Jie said, "In the past few years, China's 5G gigabit network has achieved fruitful results, with a global leading network scale. High-quality networks drive user service upgrades, build the foundation of the digital economy, and help China's digital economy construction. At present, in order to continue to build a solid foundation for the digital economy and achieve ubiquitous gigabit networks and deterministic user experience in all scenarios, Huawei continues to innovate from multiple dimensions such as indoor, rural, high-speed rail, and software and hardware collaboration to build a new gigabit experience in all scenarios."

China's 5G network construction leads the world and drives the booming industry development

After several years of development, China's 5G gigabit network has led the world and driven the rapid development of the industry. The number of 5G base stations exceeds 2.73 million, and 5G network coverage in urban areas and key places has been basically achieved. The number of gigabit cities has reached 110, and the number of base stations per 10,000 people in gigabit cities is 22.2. 5G application innovation leads the world, the scale of industry projects exceeds 10,000, and the number of industry terminal connections exceeds 300,000. High-quality networks drive user business upgrades and promote rapid economic growth. At present, we also need to work with industry partners to continue to innovate based on scenarios and customer pain points, further consolidate high-quality networks, and continue to build the cornerstone of digital development.

5G Gigabit network from outdoor to indoor, efficiently ensuring consistent experience in urban areas

5G high-quality network helps new business breakthroughs. In order to continuously consolidate the network foundation, some provinces and cities have put forward clear requirements for indoor coverage. Huawei continues to innovate, helping gigabit networks move from outdoor to indoor, and efficiently ensuring the integrated indoor and outdoor experience in urban areas. The innovative pole station solution EasyMacro has a reconfigurable antenna architecture and supports variable vertical angles. The maximum angle can be doubled to solve the problems of difficult coverage and difficult access in residential areas. The innovative distributed micro-station DRS supports flexible networking, with coverage increased by 6~9dB, significantly improving the user experience in residential areas.

5G Gigabit Networks are moving from cities to rural areas, laying the foundation for rural digital transformation

High-quality networks are the cornerstone of digital economic transformation. Gigabit networks need to go to rural areas to boost rural revitalization. Wide-angle MetaAAU, an innovative solution based on ELAA ultra-large-scale arrays and lens metamaterials, supports large horizontal angles and realizes two-sector networking, which is the best solution for rural scenarios. High-speed rail is a link between urban and rural areas, with high-value users concentrated. The power-following-car innovative solution can realize power convergence with the car, effectively improve the coverage of high-speed rail, and continuously guarantee user experience.

A three-dimensional solution combining software and hardware to ensure a Gigabit experience in hot spots

With the lifting of the ban on mobile, various activities such as concerts and sports events have sprung up, and the demand for network uplink and downlink capabilities has increased sharply. Based on the collaborative innovation of software and hardware in multiple frequencies and multiple cells, a three-dimensional solution is built to ensure the gigabit experience in hot spots. Multi-frequency collaboration improves network energy efficiency, optimizes terminal energy consumption, and effectively stimulates spectrum efficiency; Super Uplink SUL delivers the uplink gigabit experience to meet users' demands for video live broadcast and video sharing; innovative UCNC optimizes interference and enables borderless continuous experience through multi-cell collaboration.

Finally, Li Jie said that China's 5G gigabit network construction is leading the world. Facing the long-term development in the future, Huawei will start from innovation, greenness, and high performance, and continue to innovate and accumulate technologies such as ELAA and green base stations, stimulate the potential of every hertz, improve the efficiency of each bit, and reduce the energy consumption of each bit, laying a solid foundation for moving towards the 10G network era.