One of major events in the ICT field - the annual event Mobile World Congress 2018 was held in Barcelona from February 26 to March 1.
At MWC, Huawei delivered keynote speeches, held forums and discussions with industry partners under the theme "ROADS to a Better Future", presented its latest products and solutions, and conducted demonstrations in several scenarios.
On February 25, 2018, Huawei successfully held the Global Digital Transformation Forum. The forum focused on five topics: 5G, unlocking new economic value, Business-to-Business (B2B) services, big video, and operations transformation.
At Mobile World Congress 2018, Huawei unveiled a range of revolutionary mobile devices. The world's first laptop with a FullView display - Huawei MateBook X Pro, Huawei MediaPad M5 tablet and Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro. Huawei also launched its HUAWEI 5G CPE (customer-premises equipment), the world's first commercial terminal device that supports the 3GPP telecommunications standard for 5G. This device marks a milestone as Huawei builds the foundation for the next generation of wireless connectivity.
Huawei has partnered with more than 30 global telecom operators including Vodafone, Softbank, T-Mobile, BT, Telefonica, China Mobile, and China Telecom on 5G. In 2017, Huawei was the first to launch a pre-commercial 5G network with its partners. In 2018, Huawei will improve the industrial chain and complete compatibility testing and support the first round of 5G commercial deployment.
During Mobile World Congress, Huawei signed a number of important cooperation memorandums, including the 5G Joint Innovation Agreement with Bouygues Telecom (France) to conduct the first 5G 3GPP field trial in Bordeaux; a Memorandum of Understanding on the NetCity project to create a high-quality, highly reliable, next-generation network infrastructure to provide Swiss users with innovative products and services; an agreement to establish a joint innovation business center with China Telecom (BJIC), which will jointly develop differential, innovative products and solutions; BT Group and Huawei have signed an agreement to expand their strategic partnership, focusing on Special attention 5G leadership for BT Group and its mobile network EE (UK).
Also during the congress, Huawei, together with partners, held a series of demonstrations. Telefónica and Huawei jointly demonstrated the industry's first VR service using 5G end-to-end (E2E) network. The demonstration gave visitors the opportunity to enjoy an impressive 5G experience. Interactive VR will be introduced to games, education, entertainment, e-health, industry design, etc., bringing new business opportunities to operators. China Mobile, together with Huawei, demonstrated the world's first 5G microservice network built on the basis of a service-oriented architecture (SBA). The demonstration is a follow-up to the 2017 SBA-based SGA core network prototype joint release at MWC Shanghai.
As part of the congress, Deutsche Telekom and Huawei conducted the world's first field trials of 5G NR high mmWave (E-Band) in real-life conditions for outdoor and indoor deployment in a multi-element environment. 5G mmWave MIMO provides the technology to achieve enhanced 5G mobile broadband. Over 1Gbps achieved at 240m line-of-sight
But at the Mobile Device Congress, Huawei received 8 major awards from the GSMA during the Global Mobile (GLOMO) award ceremony. Among them is also an award for outstanding contribution to the development of the mobile industry. This award recognizes Huawei's longstanding commitment to supporting new technology standards, advancing digital transformation, and building a digital ecosystem.
Huawei has received such awards as:
Best Mobile Innovation for Smart City - Huawei NB-IoT Smart City Solution
- Best mobile innovation for emerging markets- Huawei RuralStar solution
- Green Mobile Award - Huawei TubeStar solution
- Best Mobile Infrastructure Award - Huawei Ultra Wide Wide RF Solution Family
- Best Mobile Technology Promotion Award - Huawei CloudAIR
- Best Network Breakthrough software- Huawei 5G core solution
- Outstanding Mobile Technology Award, CTO Choice - Huawei CloudAIR
Mobile technology is changing every day. Communication has expanded beyond cities, and throughput has grown from megabits to gigabits. Connections themselves are no longer limited to people, but now include things. In the meantime, our lives have changed radically. Almost without realizing it, we have moved from going online to living online, from bridging the digital divide to exploring the digital world. Industries are converging. Technology and business merge, work and everyday life mix. Borders dissolve around us.
In its 30 years, Huawei has partnered with carriers to deploy more than 1,500 networks around the world, connecting more than 1/3 of the world's population. As a member of more than 360 standards organizations, industry alliances, and open source communities, Huawei positively influences the growth of the mobile industry, transforms, and helps build a fully interconnected, intelligent world.
Huawei, Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies, and subsidiary Qualcomm Incorporated has completed a project in Turkey to build the world's first Wi-Fi spectrum aggregation network with License Assisted Access (LAA) LTE (R13 3GPP).
Application of LAA technology in networks mobile communications help improve user experience by increasing download speed. It is stated that in this solution it is possible to use applications of virtual or augmented reality with the effect of presence.
Network testing with LAA support was carried out using base station Lampsite Huawei at the Vodafone Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. Three-carrier aggregation used unlicensed 40 MHz spectrum in the 5 GHz band and licensed 15 MHz spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band. Max Speed On-site downloads of 370 Mbps were achieved using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and a test X16 LTE mobile modem.
On-site testing has also shown that the spectral efficiency of LAA is higher than Wi-Fi when using the same 40 MHz spectrum.
In addition, testing has demonstrated that the LAA network works together with Wi-Fi technology by supporting the 3GPP R13 standard for the listen before talk mechanism. The development of the LAA 3GPP standard was completed in March 2016. To date, Huawei's small cell devices, as well as the already launched Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor with X16 LTE modem, fully support LAA technology. This year, Huawei smartphones are expected to be released, which will also work according to LAA standards.
Santiago Tenorio, Head of Networking at Vodafone Group, said: “LAA technology will help Vodafone improve customer service. In addition, by making full use of the existing core network, network management system and accounting system implemented for 4G, a high return on investment is achieved.”
“In terms of spectrum, one of the top needs of our industry is continuous innovation to improve overall spectrum efficiency as well as provide better connections,” said Ryan Ding, president of Huawei Products and Solutions. “Huawei and our partners are addressing the underutilization of vast unlicensed spectrum resources by applying LAA technology to expand the LTE system to unlicensed spectrum. This will help operators improve the efficiency of the use of unlicensed spectrum resources, as well as increase the capacity of wireless access point networks and solve the problem of lack of frequency resources.”
“We are excited about the first commercial deployment of LAA with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and X16 LTE modem. With the transition to Gigabit LTE and 5G standards, the use of unlicensed spectrum is becoming an important part of the technology strategy, and today we demonstrated LAA as effective method implementation of this strategy,” said Enrico Salvatori, senior vice president and president of Qualcomm EMEA.
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The site browser has studied the history of one of the leading providers of new solutions in the field of telecommunications. Huawei, whose name translates as "China's achievement", is one of the top three mobile phone distributors after Apple and Samsung, and is gradually expanding its influence around the world.
Chinese companies are often controversial. Some call them phenomena that have a great influence on world economy. Others point out that the success of enterprises from this region is primarily due to the rapid economic growth within the country, and therefore, in the international market, such corporations do not represent anything. Be that as it may, on this moment the whole world has already seen the prospects of Chinese brands - mainly thanks to companies like Alibaba that have managed to create a name for themselves abroad.
Such companies include the telecommunications giant Huawei. The brand is widely known not only for its capitalization exceeding $40 billion, but also for its unique approach to working with clients, focusing on foreign markets and continuous investment in innovation.
Huawei was founded in 1987 by Zhen Zhengfei, an engineer who previously worked as a tradesman in the Chinese military. The name of the company is translated from Chinese as "the achievement of China", which symbolizes the pursuit of growth, development and innovation.
In 2007, the company continued to use joint ventures to promote its own technologies and strengthen its position in the international markets. This year, Huawei joined forces with US-based secure storage developer Symantec. So in 2008, Huawei-Symantec was born, becoming one of the world's leading developers in the field of data protection. At the moment, the brand owns almost 300 patents in this industry, 30 of which are considered standards. In 2007, an agreement was reached with Global Marine Systems, one of the leading companies in the field of undersea telecommunications. The purpose of the transaction is the joint development of solutions in the field of submarine cable networks.
The highlight of 2013 was the beginning of the confrontation between the company and its main competitor in the smartphone market - Apple. Top managers of Huawei allowed themselves to ride several times over the latest achievements of the corporation, declaring the lack of new ideas at Apple after the death of Steve Jobs.
In 2014, the struggle of the giants continued. In February, a video appeared on the network in which Huawei chuckles at Apple and announces its performance at MWC2014. By the way, there the audience was first shown the Media Pad X1 tablet, recognized as the most compact in the world. The degree of confrontation between Apple and Huawei has increased.
In the fall of 2014, the Chinese manufacturer began selling a new flagship called the Ascend P7. The smartphone, like the previous ones, received mainly good feedback analysts. In the same year, the flagship tablet Ascend Mate 7 was introduced, traditionally positively received by the audience. The line was diluted with several budget models.