Huawei's Ding Yun: Expanding the Connectivity Business Landscape and Winning the Industry's Digital Blue Ocean

[Beijing, China, October 13, 2020] Today, the 6th Global Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2020) opened in Beijing. Ding Yun, Executive Director of Huawei and President of Carrier BG, delivered a keynote speech entitled "+ Intelligent Experience, Connecting Industry Value".

Over the past five years, Huawei has jointly proposed the industry value propositions of "Gigaband" and "Quality Broadband" with the industry, and has continuously enriched its value connotations from the dimensions of gigabit speed, network experience, operation and maintenance efficiency, and industrial ecology, promoting the construction of a positive industrial and commercial cycle in the global fixed broadband industry. Faced with the challenges of the 2020 epidemic, fixed broadband networks have further released huge social and economic value, especially in countries with leading broadband infrastructure such as China. Fixed broadband has effectively promoted the resumption of work, production, and school, and supported the restoration of social production and living order.

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Ding Yun, Executive Director of Huawei and President of Carrier BG, delivered a keynote speech at UBBF2020

Ding Yun pointed out that the continuous investment and innovation of global operators in the field of fixed broadband have shown unlimited development potential and will become a strong engine for global economic recovery. We need to further deepen our efforts in the field of fixed broadband, expand the focus of connectivity from homes to enterprises, and bring the ultimate service experience to everyone, every family, and every organization through continuous technological innovation. While building a positive cycle of fixed broadband business, we will promote the vigorous development of the global digital economy. Based on this, Huawei has proposed the industry innovation direction of intelligent connectivity to help operators open up more business scenarios and enable the digital development of thousands of industries.

1. "Home+" three-layer experience upgrade, through the family digital realization formula (family digital value = high-speed converged broadband connection + full coverage home network + multi-service SLA experience guarantee), open up diversified family business scenarios

Online services have been fully integrated into people's work, life and study, and the family is moving from an entertainment center to a diversified scene innovation center. Intelligent connectivity will ensure the diversified business experience of families from three levels: high-speed broadband, full coverage, and multi-service SLA guarantee, support the extension of home scene functions, and bring a new "Home+" smart experience to end users.

Build networks intelligently and accurately to create a high-speed broadband experience. Governments need to incorporate broadband network construction into national strategies and provide policy and financial support. Operators need to coordinate the planning, construction, installation, maintenance and operation of the overall network infrastructure, strengthen the coordinated construction of F5G and 5G networks, focus on high-value users and build gigabit value communities to drive the universal upgrade of broadband services.

The connection extends from the home to the user, building a full coverage experience. Focusing on the bottleneck of Wi-Fi experience in home networks, we promote the service-oriented Wi-Fi products and the platform-oriented Wi-Fi services, making the home Wi-Fi experience visible, manageable, and maintainable, and maximizing the actual service experience of home users. At the same time, we further promote the technical innovation of fiber to the room (FTTR) to provide guarantees for the innovation of more smart home application scenarios.

Intelligent business identification to achieve multi-scenario, diversified SLA business experience assurance. Introduce artificial intelligence technology to intelligently identify home business types and provide multi-scenario differentiated business assurance: strengthen collaboration with partners such as OTT to realize application ecosystem monetization; provide targeted SLA assurance based on specific business needs to achieve differentiated experience monetization; further extend to vertical fields such as smart home to expand more new business scenarios.

2. "Enterprise+" three-dimensional experience upgrade, releasing the digital value of enterprises through the enterprise digital value realization formula (enterprise digital value = coverage density * experience depth * integration breadth)

The essence of enterprise digitalization is to open up the workflow of funds, people, objects, information, supervision, etc. of the enterprise, and connection is the blood of enterprise digitalization. The experience guarantee of enterprise connection still faces huge challenges. Intelligent connection will systematically improve the experience perception of enterprise connection from three dimensions: coverage density, experience depth, and integration breadth, and help enterprises' digital transformation.

Multi-technology intelligent coverage to achieve seamless access experience. Actively carry out comprehensive business area planning to ensure that enterprises can access optical fiber private lines within 300 meters. At the same time, one optical cable network integrates multiple technologies such as 5G, OTN, IP, PON, etc., and intelligently matches differentiated private line products according to the differentiated needs of enterprises; give full play to the advantages of existing network resources such as all-optical cities, realize one network for multiple uses, and one private line carries multiple services to meet the diversified connection demands of enterprises.

Elastic intelligent architecture creates a deterministic SLA experience. Build a non-blocking, always-on, scalable, and extremely simple elastic intelligent network architecture to achieve the commitment of SLA indicators such as bandwidth, latency, reliability, and service opening time, bringing deterministic connection experience to enterprises while realizing the value of SLA.

Cloud and network are widely integrated to achieve differentiated cloud and network service experience. Network capabilities will evolve into the platform foundation, network boundaries will be broken, and cloud and network will be fully integrated, thus achieving a customized experience for enterprises from purchase to use. At the same time, product services will also evolve from the current cloud + network model to one-hop access to the cloud and network access to the cloud, achieving differentiated cloud and network services.

Ding Yun finally said that business and technology have never existed in isolation. Intelligent connectivity has achieved three major technological innovations: intelligent network construction, intelligent cloud network, and computing network collaboration. Combined with the two major commercial monetization formulas of families and enterprises, it will truly drive the construction of intelligent experience in the era of the Internet of Everything, enable industry digitization with dual-wheel drive, and open up a trillion-dollar blue ocean market for the digital economy.