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VIP Voices POST Luxembourg: Positioning Itself in the Digital Era

SVP View Jointly Embracing a Better Connected Future with 5G

Special Topic: 5G Innovations

Claude Strasser, CEO of POST Luxembourg

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CONTENTS Advisory Committee Director: Chen Jane ZTE TECHNOLOGIES FEB 2018 Deputy Directors: Xu Ming, Zhang Jianguo, Zhu Jinyun Advisers: Bao Zhongjun, Chen Jian, 04 Cui Li, Fang Jianliang, Wang Xiang, Yang Jiaxiao

VIP Voices Editorial Board Director: Wang Xiang Deputy Director: Huang Xinming Members: Bo Gang, Cui Liangjun, POST Luxembourg: Positioning Itself in the Han Gang, Heng Yunjun, Huang Xinming, 04 Digital Era The Convergence of 4G and 5G Drives Network Evolution Liu Shouwen, Sun Jiruo, Wang Xiang, 24 Ye Ce, Zhang Zhenchao, Zhou Yong Reporter: Liu Yang By Zhang Jiong

09 Smartfren: Going 4G LTE Only 09 26 Feasibility Analysis of 3.5 GHz NR SA Deployment Sponsor: ZTE Corporation Reporter: Xiong Limin By Wang Xiaoming Edited By Strategy Planning Department 1 Editor-in-Chief: Wang Xiang FEB 2018 Making Life More Comfortable For Citizens End-to-end 5G Network Slicing: Key to 12 29 Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Huang Xinming ZTE Digital Transformation Editorial Director: Liu Yang Reporter: Meng Jingjing By Huang Yan Executive Editor-in-Chief: Yue Lihua Circulatio n Manager: Wang Pingping

15 Thailand Gearing up for 5G 32 5G E2E Solutions Tailored to Your Needs Reporter: Sopitha Pisutthisakulchai By Duan Xiaowei

35 ZTE’s 3-Pronged IoT Strategy: Chipset, Address: NO. 55, Hi-tech Road South, SVP View Network and Cloud Shenzhen, P.R.China By Yang Longzhi Postcode: 518075 Tel: +86-755-26775211 Fax: +86-755-26775217 18 Jointly Embracing a Better Connected Future with 5G Success Stories Website: wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/about/ publications Reporter: Liu Xinyang Email: [email protected]

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ZTE and velcom Jointly ZTE Combo PON Solution & Smart Announce Belarus’ First ZTE and China Parking System Win Total Telecom Telecom Complete NB-IoT Commercial ZTE Releases IoT Cloud Platform Deployment Innovation Awards Pre5G FDD Massive Product ─ ZTE ThingxCloud MIMO Testing 14 December 2017, Shenzhen, 1 December 2017, Shenzhen, communications and GIS to enable China ― ZTE and velcom, a branch China ― ZTE won two innovation data collection, management, query, 12 December 2017, Shenzhen, adapts to various bearer networks, and of A1 Telekom Austria Group, awards for its Combo PON solution reservation and navigation of parking China ― ZTE released a new generation shields differences among different 8 January 2018, Shenzhen, jointly announced the deployment and smart parking system at the World spaces; thereby realizing efficient of ZTE’s ThingxCloud IoT platform bearer network technologies so as to China ― ZTE declared that its of the first commercial NB-IoT Communication Awards (WCA) 2017 allocation of parking resources. The products in Shanghai IOT summit. make the upper applications transparent CloudStudio (formerly vManager) network in Belarus. The network held by Total Telecom, a renowned system has been commercially trialed ZTE’s ThingxCloud, a basic on the underlying bearer network. VNFM product was ranked as was deployed in Minsk city first and telecom publication, in London, the U.K. in over 40 cities globally, including the IoT cloud platform with advanced The software development kit (SDK) Leader by GlobalData in its then in other regions as scheduled. The ZTE Combo PON solution Xiongan New Area, Tianjin, Shenzhen, technology architecture and a wealth /API makes the massive terminals access latest standalone VNFM survey So far, velcom has verified smart earned the “Highly Commended” award Brussels, and Madrid. of basic capabilities, can well connect to IoT simplified, data sharing secure, report titled “Standalone VNF metering and smart city solutions in in the “Innovation Award: Vendor” APPs and devices while generating and the upper IoT application and public Managers: Competitive Landscape the network. category. ZTE is the first vendor to data internally. Meanwhile, it features foundational capabilities controllable Assessment”. The cooperation of NB-IoT innovate a 3-in-1 Combo PON solution. great capabilities of enabling IoT and for all kinds of applications. Therefore, GlobalData, a world leading between velcom and ZTE has Integrating GPON and 10G GPON IoT ecology development, and opening varieties of IoT applications can be provider of data and analysis, started since the end of 2016. In into a single optical module through a co-construction, co-sharing and win- greatly optimized in the architecture, points out that VNFM product a built-in WDM1, and processing 27 the Tibo exhibition, the end-to- win situation in IoT arena. difficulty of its development and is an important part for VNFs 3 end gas metering service demo signals separately based on different Based on oneM2M’s technology construction be reduced, costs of interfacing with MANO FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 was successfully demonstrated. MAC addresses, the solution is able to architecture and ICT PaaS/AI & Big construction and operation saved while to complete virtualization ZTE ZTE ZTE Following that, more lab tests and simultaneously deliver GPON and 10G Data, ZTE’s ThingxCloud includes IoT new intelligence being generated for capabilities. Operators need field tests were carried out. GPON services over one PON port. devices, connection management and upper-level applications with rich AI & a generic VNFM, whether velcom has highly appreciated The ZTE smart parking system won application enabling management. It Big Data capabilities. strictly ETSI-compliant or not, ZTE’s commitment in this market. the “Most Innovative IoT Solution” to deploy multiple VNFs to “We are very excited that, with award. The system is the industry’s first finish the first step to network ZTE, we have provided abundant NB-IoT based smart parking solution ZTE First Completes Ultra-High-Precision virtualization transformation. services to our customers. Within ever used in pilot deployments. It A generic VNFM which can be the project, we installed equipment innovatively integrates IoT, wireless Time Source Test in Cooperation with NTSC, sold standalone or integrated that will allow us to implement NB- Boosting IoE in 5G should possess powerful IoT technology. This is an incredible capabilities in decoupling or breakthrough in the field of telecom, ZTE Joins IEEE-SA Standard Board 7 December 2017, Shenzhen, China application for the first time, boosting integrating with third-party and we are happy to complete it ― ZTE announced its completion of the internet of everything (IoE) in 5G. APPs/VNFs and NFVO. together. We are sincerely glad to 27 December 2017, Shenzhen, working with IEEE for years on various test for the high-precision time source So far, ZTE has deployed have such a partnership and looking China ― ZTE announced that its 5G technologies and standardization device based on the principle of satellite more than 320 commercial/trial forward to further cooperation,” said standard director Mr. Jingyi Zhou including wireless LAN, WAN, common view in National Time Service virtualization projects around Christian Laque, CTO of velcom. joined IEEE-SA Standards Association Ethernet, Front-haul, Advanced Fog/ Center (NTSC), Chinese Academy of the world. ZTE develops deep “ZTE is very proud to work with Standards Board (SASB) for the term Edge computing, and Blockchain etc. Sciences (CAS). cooperation with mainstream velcom to release the first NB-IoT of 2018. ZTE experts are holding leadership The time source test based on operators, has joined many commercial deployment overseas. Meanwhile, Zhou also joins positions in P1934 and P802.11ax PHY common view technology is the first standards organizations and The achievement signifies ZTE’s SASB Industry Connections Ad-Hoc Working Groups (WG) as that achieves the time precision of open source communities such capabilities of providing operators Committee (ICCom) and returns well as SASB Board and Committees. +/–10 ns. The completion of this test as ETSI, 3GPP, ONAP, OPNFV, with the smooth evolution solution to SASB New Standard Committee ZTE is working together with IEEE marks that ZTE has introduced the OpenStack, OpenDayLight and towards 5G,” said Pu Yingchun, (NesCom) for 2018. to extend its influence and contribute satellite common view technology from CNCF, and aims to build an open Vice President of ZTE and General IEEE-SA is a leading standard to the industry with its advanced 5G scientific research on astronomical and win-win ecosystem together Manager of FDD Products. organization globally. 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ounded in 1842, POST Group, What business challenges are you facing in based in Luxembourg, is the the telecom market? country’s largest provider of postal, telecommunications, philatelic Claude Strasser: As the biggest operator in F and financial services. Being Luxembourg, POST is facing an increasing demand the incumbent operator in Luxembourg offering for high quality products and services from a highly services to over a million customers, POST diversified customer base. This is why we’ve taken Luxembourg is in the process of consolidating the strategic decision to go for full fixed-mobile its IT platforms to provide non-differentiated convergence products. For the fixed network we services for its customer base, support centralized are deploying fiber on a national scale, and we are operations for both fixed and mobile networks currently in the process of connecting every single and ultimately improve the customer experience household and every single company. On the mobile through proactive customer care and innovative technology side, we are offering 4G plus, and we will digital service offerings. POST Luxembourg and offer the future-generation 5G to our customers in the ZTE are working together on a project which aims very near future. at realizing business convergence by deploying ZSmart BSS suite developed by ZTE’s subsidiary What’s your strategy of going forward? 47 ZTESoft. At a recent partnership signing ceremony, 5 ZTE Technologies interviewed Claude Strasser, Claude Strasser: One element of the strategy is the DECSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 CEO of POST Luxembourg, and Pierre Zimmer, full convergence of fixed and mobile for the B2C ZTE ZTE CSO of POST Luxembourg. They outlined the customer base, as mentioned before. On the B2B side ZTE company’s challenges, strategy, and how they are we will broaden our product range for ICT services positioning themselves in the digital era. on top of the classical connectivity and the classic mobile and fixed telecom products. Another very Could you describe Luxembourg’s important area is the M2M business, which is now telecom market? broadening to IoT. This is clearly an important path of growth in the future. Claude Strasser: Luxembourg is one of the main financial centers in Europe which results in a very high Digital transformation is a priority for telecom demand from the B2B community, i.e. banks, financial operators. What role does IT play in POST’s institutions, insurances, law firms etc. In addition the digital transformation? industry and technology sectors developed rapidly over the past years, thus increasing the demand for Pierre Zimmer: IT is playing a crucial role in the a full range of high quality ICT services and state- digital transformation. Indeed the IT department of-the-art products. This makes Luxembourg a very is the central link between the different business challenging and highly dynamic telecom market. lines of POST, which gives IT the global picture of POST Luxembourg: the company’s operational processes as well as the How important is the telecom business for customers’ needs. We are deploying every effort to Positioning Itself in the Digital Era POST? deliver state-of-the-art products and services to a highly automated customer base, this with a steadily Claude Strasser: The telecom business is by far reduced time-to-market. IT has also a key role to play Reporter: Liu Yang the largest business for POST. It accounts for three in order to identify synergies between the different quarters of our turnover and roughly two thirds of business lines and propose technical solutions to our employment. enhance existing processes, thus boosting operational

Claude Strasser, CEO of POST Luxembourg VIP Voices

a more agile and dynamic way of working which service and product catalogue rollout times. cooperation? will improve our efficiency and enables us to deliver high quality services and products to What are some of the challenges you need to Claude Strasser: The signing of the partnership our customers. tackle in your new role as CSO? agreement demonstrates the commitment of ZTE With the implementation of Möbius, to support POST Luxembourg in its strategic IT the current operational landscape will Pierre Zimmer: The first priority is to translate digitalization project. There are important milestones completely change, which represents POST’s strategy into a clear action plan with to be met in 2018. We are confident that by joining a challenge for POST’s employees, benchmarks and milestones. In order to achieve our forces the Möbius project will be a success, and that as they will work in a complete new short, medium and long term goals, we have taken the the collaboration between our two companies could be environment. strategic approach to set up dedicated project teams further broadened in the future. Claude Strasser: The new platform will of IT and business experts, acting in an agile mode also enable customers to have an easier in order to develop innovative products and services What’s your vision for POST’s future? access to our products through highly with a reduced time to market. One example of such flexible interfaces. a dedicated task force is the Möbius project, which Claude Strasser: POST’s strategic vision is very will completely change POST’s operating landscape clear. Being the incumbent operator in Luxembourg How do you ensure that user as well as the interaction with our customers. offering products and services to over a million experience is unaffected during the Another challenge we have to tackle results from customers, POST Luxembourg needs to consolidate migration process? the regulations in Luxembourg. Being a very mature its scattered IT platforms to provide non-differentiated market with highly automated professional players, services to its customer base, support centralized 67 Pierre Zimmer: We have a product called My the regulators have decided to set a stringent legal operations for both fixed and mobile networks and 7 POST enabling customers to use our products and framework, what implies some constraints for market ultimately improve the customer experience through FEBSEP 2018 2016 Pierre Zimmer, CSO of POST Luxembourg FEB 2018 services via mobile devices or computers. The aim is players, but also creates new business opportunities proactive customer care and innovative digital service ZTE ZTE to seamlessly move from the old system to the new which POST is well positioned to take up. offerings. Delivering high quality services and ZTE environment. The new interface with the customers products with faster roll-out times, while reducing will offer more flexibility and in a second phase it will How do you evaluate the cooperation costs significantly, will be key to defend our market enable us to offer new products and services in a more with ZTE? share. A fierce competition and the relatively small efficiency and reducing cost. efficient and faster way. size of Luxembourg are the main challenges. For Claude Strasser: The cooperation between POST the past 25 years, we’ve proven that we have been What have been your IT-related initiatives? What are the services you are going to offer and ZTE has proven to be fruitful and efficient. In able to defend our position in the market, and we based on the new system? the beginning teams had to overcome some hurdles are deploying every effort to stay competitive and Pierre Zimmer: As we are striving to continuously such as culture and language differences. The fact successfully position ourselves in the digital era. increase our customer experience, we have launched Claude Strasser: First of all, there is the convergence that employees from ZTE moved to Luxembourg the Möbius project with the objective to transform of our products which we don’t have today. We and worked together with their the legacy systems onto a unified platform to improve currently do not have one integrated system. For colleagues from POST improved the time-to-market, maximize process automation and instance, we still have separate invoices for fixed and communication and helped people to provide 360 degree view portal services in real-time mobile offers, which will be merged into one single better understand each other’s way for both fixed and mobile services. invoice. A major improvement for customers will be of working. The cooperation between the advantage to have online access to nearly 100% of our two organizations has evolved to How can the Möbius project support POST’s our products and services. Another milestone will be our entire satisfaction and we are very digital transformation efforts? What are your considerably reduced time-to-market for our product happy with ZTE’s responsiveness to major concerns? and service offerings. Every small change to a product our business needs. or a service means a huge configuration change in Pierre Zimmer: Möbius is a fundamental the background. We believe that ZTE’s ZSmart 8 What do you think of the transformation project which involves IT specialists as BSS suite will enable POST Luxembourg to provide significance of the agreement well as business experts from the front- and back-end an improved customer experience for consumers signed ? What are your In an interview side. The new platform we are putting in place allows and business customers with dramatically improved expectations for a future VIP Voices

At a signing ceremony between POST Luxembourg and ZTE

87 9 FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 Could you tell us more about the size challenge? to maintain our three historic business lines, which ZTE ZTE ZTE implies that we have to continuously enhance our Claude Strasser: Luxembourg being a relatively small service and product catalogues. Having the biggest country means that you have a limited customer base. market share in Luxembourg, POST continuously Today, POST is the biggest operator in Luxembourg, strives to satisfy the customers’ demands for first-class and delivering value added services and high quality service and state-of-the-art products. products to our customers differentiates us from our POST Luxembourg owns its fixed and mobile competitors. This becomes even more important in the infrastructure, and together with POST Telecom, offers future in order to stay competitive. secure, superfast broadband connectivity solutions, as well as voice and data management services to Any plan for expanding your market? private individuals as well as professionals. POST Luxembourg also offers telecom and ICT services Claude Strasser: Growth for us is definitely not internationally and is a leading operator for M2M limited to the Luxembourg market. We are looking at services in Europe. M2M and IoT. Penetrating international markets needs For the telecom business POST has opted for ZTE to be prepared carefully, both in terms of business as strategic partner to make the digital transformation Smartfren: opportunities and financial investments. a success. With regards to the traditional postal business, we are focusing more on the parcel business. POST has a long history. How do you balance We are collaborating with logistics providers and tradition and modernity? POST has signed partnership agreements with Chinese companies which use Luxembourg as a hub Going 4G LTE Only Claude Strasser: Founded in 1842, POST for parcels delivered to Europe. We focus on digital Luxembourg is the country’s largest provider of postal transformation which is the key success factor for all and telecommunications services and also offers of our three business lines. We are looking forward to Reporter: Xiong Limin financial and philatelic services. POST’s strategy is the challenges ahead.

Christian Daigneault, CTO of Smartfren VIP Voices

especially to improve in- ndonesia is witnessing a rapid what philosophy do you bring to Smartfren? building coverage in the large increase in mobile internet usage cities. This technology is good as the number of smartphone users The philosophy is to build a very strong network for 3D propagation, ideal are growing strongly. This is a huge that provides the best customer experience. I am not to radiate inside a highrise I challenge for Smartfren Telecom, just talking about offering the maximum speeds, which building to improve the indoor which used to be a CDMA-centric operator in is more a marketing gimmick, but real broadband coverage without having to Indonesia. However, it forges ahead with an LTE- experience. We’re really focusing on minimizing video spend too much for an expensive only strategy with a focus on network reliability and buffering, having a very short latency, a very fast distributed antenna system. experience. This is one of our main differentiators download, and having very strong service stability. We’re working with ZTE to in the market, said Christian Daigneault, CTO of This is the focus of the whole team—to improve deploy several Massive MIMO Smartfren, in an interview with ZTE Technologies that customer experience and network stability. sites in the large cities like took place in November 2017. Being the first operator Jakarta. This is a step toward to deploy 4G LTE-A and VoLTE, offering the widest What is your overall network strategy? How 5G whereas for Indonesia, 5G coverage across Indonesia and completing the first do you plan to differentiate yourself? Smarfren and ZTE complete a Pre5G Massive MIMO trial is going to be some years away Pre5G trial in Southeast Asia, Smartfren continues to since the spectrum has not been lead the 4G market and has successfully carved a niche Firstly, the strategy for the last two years has soon as we shut down the CDMA network, we refarm allocated yet. We’re building 107 for itself in it. been to deploy an LTE-only network. We are the only that spectrum for LTE. And since our CDMA uses low- the network in such a way that it will be ready for 5G 11 operator in Indonesia with an all LTE network which when the spectrum and regulations allow. FEBSEP 2018 2016 frequency 850 MHz band, this brings extremely good FEB 2018 Could you describe the mobile landscape in guarantees a consistent data experience. This is one of coverage for LTE. We will use the refarmed spectrum to ZTE ZTE ZTE Indonesia and your ambitions for it? our main differentiators in the market. We plan to turn increase the capacity and throughput of LTE. Wherever What trends do you expect in the global off completely CDMA network by the end of 2017, we turned off CDMA and refarmed to LTE, the telecom market? Recently, the mobile market in Indonesia has been and refarm that spectrum to LTE. customer experience has improved significantly. (Note: developing very quickly. The internet penetration has Secondly, we were first to introduce voice over Smartfren’s CDMA to LTE migration has already been Globally, the trend is towards more internet risen quickly in the last few years. It used to be all LTE (VoLTE) two years ago. Our VoLTE now is at a completed.) usage and the need for extreme reliability since voice service with 2G, and only five years ago the mature stage, which is better than 2G and 3G. So we customers become more and more dependent on networks evolved to 3G; the traditional mobile voice can also be differentiated by better voice quality. Smartfren launched 4G LTE-A service in mobile connectivity for all their needs. As the new market is developing to data, later with 4G. Today Thirdly, our customers are guaranteed to have 4G Indonesia with ZTE. What do you think of normal, the data demand will increase exponentially all five mobile operators in Indonesia have deployed coverage nationwide in Indonesia, which means that ZTE as a partner? but the capacity for customers to pay for their 4G LTE. So it is a very competitive market with five even on the highways, in most remote areas, in tier 2 increased consumption is very limited, Therefore, strong competitors. and tier 3 cities we have 4G LTE whereas in many of ZTE has been a very good partner for the last the presure to lower cost per GB is stronger than Our ambition is in the next few years to become a those areas the competitor only has 2G—a good voice 11 years for Smartfren. Earlier it was our exclusive ever. Operator needs to look for new architecture strong No. 2 in the market. We have a relatively small network but no data. partner to build the CDMA network nationwide in such as Cloud Core and RAN, to commoditize the market share at this point because we came from a Indonesia. Three years ago we upgraded our network hardware and implement software functionalities as CDMA background. At the time we launched LTE two How did you manage the migration from to LTE with the help of ZTE. So ZTE continues to required. This is a huge transformation for telecom years ago, our frequency band was not available for CDMA to LTE? be our long-term partner. I would say this is a very operators since it requires re-training and recruiting many devices, and the ecosystem was quite small for successful collaboration. new type of engineers, similar to the change to IP TDD at 2300 MHz. This has changed and now a large Since more than a year we have been offering our a few years back. This is perhaps not a good news ecosystem supports our frequency band and VoLTE customers good incentives to move to LTE. We offered Smarfren and ZTE completed a Pre5G trial. for large telco vendors, since the technology will and we’re seeing our growth going much faster. our Andromax smartphones and MiFi devices at What’s your take on 5G? What’s your next move? be simplified to the point of having a multitude of Continuing on this trend, we think in the next few good price, to motivate users to move to LTE. We are new vendors. This will in turn raise competition in years we can become a strong No. 2. gradually turning off CDMA in the market where most The Pre5G trial with Massive MIMO antenna in the market and help reduce cost; all players in the of the customers have already migrated, and we intend the 2300 MHz TDD band was done early in 2017. industry need to adapt to this new trend to meet From your extensive telecom experience, to complete the migration by the end of 2017. As Now we’re planning to introduce this technology future cost challenges. VIP Voices

rom September 19 to 21 in 2017, its targets until 2020, but the Hungarian Government Smart City InFocus took place in made a very ambitious plan to reach that goal by the Yinchuan, China’s leading smart end of 2018. Based on the infrastructure, every home city. The event run by TM Forum in Hungary can have a 30 Mbps internet access. There F in collaboration with Yinchuan and is a “Digital Welfare” program of the Government to ZTE brought together over 800 C-level executives and support under-developed areas with low-price internet government officials. On the second day of the event, subscriptions thus giving an equal chance to all people ZTE Technologies interviewed Tibor Leleszi, Mayor of access to the knowledge that is offered by the proper of Kisvárda (Hungary). He shared with us his smart web-content. There are also programs in their initial city aspirations. phase for e-health and e-education, but we have still plenty of tasks to do. What is the current status of smart cities in Hungary? Why is it important to deploy a smart city in Kisvárda? I come from Kisvárda, a small city in Hungary. There are ongoing studies on the subject of smart cities As Mayor of Kisvárda, it is the leading concept in Hungary. The first steps are evaluation and planning. in my election campaign—to make Kisvárda more I came here to learn more about the development of citizen-friendly. My first priority is to make the life smart city solutions. of the citizens of Kisvárda more comfortable, more 127 13 enjoyable in order to keep young and talented people in FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 How do you feel the technological scene is our city and to avoid their migration to Budapest or to ZTE ZTE currently developing in Hungary? other bigger cities. ZTE

Regarding the technological scene I can say that Do you have a smart city strategy or plan in the central government’s initiatives brought a breath of place? fresh air. I mean that the Broadband Internet program as part of the European Digital Agenda 2020 has set Yesterday we saw a very complex solution to deal with almost all requirements of a city. In Kisvárda, we have already studied some segments, like e-health. But after seeing yesterday’s studies, I realized Making Life More that we have to develop our solutions for more extensive needs and take a look at the Comfortable For Citizens questions in a bigger context. Interview on Smart Cities with Tibor Can you paint us a big picture of your smart Leleszi, Mayor of Kisvárda city? What are the important elements ?

Reporter: Meng Jingjing In order to reach the aforementioned important A group photo of representatives from Kisvárda and ZTE goal, I see tasks in several

Tibor Leleszi, Mayor of Kisvárda (Hungary) VIP Voices

Thailand Gearing up for 5G Interviews from ZTE 5G Summit 2017

Reporter: Sopitha Pisutthisakulchai

147 An interview 15 hailand is prepared to usher in the True thinks is pretty up-to-date technology. In FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 new telecommunications era of 5G terms of 4.5G Massive MIMO project, this is the ZTE ZTE ZTE as the country moves to Thailand opportunity for ZTE to continue the 5G service. areas. Our city is attracting 7000 students who are and professional athletes. Around these facilities 4.0, a new economic model based We hope that 5G technology from ZTE will solve travelling every day to our city mainly by bus, causing I see plenty of possibilities, ideas that have to be T on new technology and innovation. the network problems and keep up to date with traffic jams, frustration because of time loss and evaluated together with local entrepreneurs in order During the ZTE 5G Summit held in Thailand in service usage. 5G will need more investment in pollution. We have to develop a smart solution to to construct a complete eco-system for sustainable November 2017, representatives from the mobile terms of R&D for building a strong network. ZTE eliminate this problem. and profitable development. operator True, the regulatory body NBTC and the technology should be able to support the network A well organized traffic is also a cost-factor for telecom vendor ZTE talked about the challenges capability in the future in both the IoT, which has our industries. The largest poultry meat processing What challenges do you foresee in the and opportunities arising with the 5G era. As a 5G to be developed continuously, and the smart city company of Hungary is working in our city. It is our transition to a smart city? pioneer, ZTE organized this summit to promote and smart home, which are the main interests of elementary interest to serve all their needs to eliminate cooperation across the 5G industry chain and boost the market at the moment. 5G technology will be all barriers in front of their success. The most critical task is to introduce change into Thailand’s 5G development. needed even more in the future when all smart A very important field is to take care of our the minds of the people because people sometimes devices become widely used. senior citizens. We have already implemented one have difficulty in adapting to changes. Yesterday’s initiative. We have distributed health-check watches presentation was useful in this context. It gave What’s True’s plan for 5G development in the to several hundred seniors. They have learnt the examples of how this difficulty can be overcome. If coming few years? usage of the watch with the help of volunteering people feel that the changes serve the interests of the Adisak Prasongsup, COO of students and now the watches can generate alarms people, they will be more open to changes. TrueMove H Adisak Prasongsup: For True, we definitely have if the important health-indicators reach a certain a plan to support 5G. Now we are prepared with our critical level. With the solutions we have learnt from What comments would you make on ZTE's 4.5G network. We also have networks covering up ZTE, we plan to develop this system towards both smart city solutions? What do you think is ZTE’s role in future 5G to 90% of the country. Therefore, True is ready to prevention and pro-activity. development? install 5G services in all the targeted areas which Another important field is tourism. Kisvárda has We can learn from the company, which is very include metropolitan areas or all other big cities. In beautiful surroundings and now we are planning to professional and open to transferring knowledge and Adisak Prasongsup: For ZTE there are currently the coming future, all the operators will have to be construct a spa, a kayak-canoe facility for amateurs technologies to us. 3G, 4G and even 4.5G network rollout which ready to provide 5G services. VIP Voices

spectrum available for 5G so that industry players can have sufficient frequencies to take our country to the Dr Jesada Sivaraks, Secretary to 5G era. NBTC Commissioner, Thailand How would you like ZTE to contribute to Thailand’s mobile market? Could you review the developments of the mobile telecommunications market in Jesada Sivaraks: In the 5G ecosystem, there is no Thailand? buyer-seller relationship like that in 4G. In the future, operators and vendors need to cooperate further in An interview Jesada Sivaraks: In Thailand, after we had set up order to develop the market capacity because there is the NBTC, we opened the first bidding in 2012. going to be a series of new services and new industry The market started to become more competitive and players. There might not only be the mobile service What is the obstacle to open the 5G Which frequency is the most suitable for 5G? developed continuously. The big operators in Thailand provider and mobile service user, but the mobile technology market in Thailand or other have also upgraded their networks to 3G. Following service provider of 5G, other services providers and the countries? An Wei: For 5G, there is middle band and high band. this, there are biddings for 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and service users in this new ecosystem. In middle band, there are two most popular spectrums. other developments. Right now we have 4G. For the An Wei: The first one is to get the 5G spectrum. One is 3.5 GHz band used in Asia (including China) next-generation technology which is 5G, we plan to set After you get the spectrum, we need to consider the and Europe and the other is 4.7 GHz used in Japan 167 up and open new frequencies to increase competition 17 two factors: 5G service demand and the return on and some other countries. For high band, there FEBSEP 2018 2016 in the market. We hope to see all operators strengthen FEB 2018 investment. As the technology supplier, we must are two most popular ones: 28 GHz in US, Japan ZTE ZTE their competitiveness. ZTE make sure that the terminals are ready, including not and Korea and 26 GHz in Asia (including China) An Wei from ZTE CTO group only the smartphones but also the IoT terminals; and and Europe. How does the NBTC plan to accelerate the 5G the network is ready, including radio, transmission development in Thailand? and core networks. The most critical parts are Which frequency do we use with AIS? How to develop Thailand into a leader of 5G transmission ready for 5G and site acquisition as Jesada Sivaraks: For Thailand, the NBTC has technology in Asia-Pacific? both of them take longer time. Optical fiber must be Yu Xiaolei: Now we are testing 5G Massive MIMO in a technology-neutral policy. We support all new ready because there are lots of small cells in 5G 1.8 GHz with AIS. technology by releasing suitable frequency. For 5G An Wei: 5G is the whole ecosystem which includes network which need a lot of optical transmission. development, we plan to increase the amount of devices, spectrum, raido network, Thailand is going to have the bidding auction core network, transmission network for 1.8 GHz in 2018. Do you think, if we use and applications. If operators want to 1.8 GHz for 5G, is there going to be dropping develop 5G, the first thing is to get or inefficiency in using this frequency? the 5G spectrum. As a technology and network supplier, we provide Yu Xiaolei, CTO of ZTE Thailand An Wei: 5G will firstly focus on enhanced mobile 5G terminals, radio networks, broadband that requires wide bandwidth, like 100 MHz. transmission networks and core This can only be available in the middle band and high networks and we also support certain Do we have any cooperation with any band. By middle band, I’m talking about 3.5 GHz and 5G applications. We also need to operators in Thailand? 4.7 GHz and high band refers to 28 GHz or 26 GHz. be open-minded and be ready to 100 MHz bandwidth is not available in 1.8 GHz band have close cooperation with all the Yu Xiaolei: For 3G and 4G, we have partnered with for operators. 5G will start from the middle band and verticals. We are ready to support AIS and True. Currently, we are testing 5G technology high band in the early 5G deployment stage. We will Thailand as a leader in 5G technology Massive MIMO together with AIS and we are going to see frequency refarming, which includes 700 MHz, in Asia-Pacific as part of Digital launch it with AIS. We also have the plan to conduct a 900 MHz, and 1800 MHz in the later 5G deployment Thailand or Thailand 4.0. 5G trial in 2018 in Thailand. stage. SVP View

Jointly Embracing a Better Connected Future with 5G

Reporter: Liu Xinyang

G will be a revolutionary based on the latest 3GPP 5G NR standards. The competition in the 5G arena is era in the history of “Two Interactions” are the world’s largest 5G getting increasingly fierce. What’s the telecommunications, where an field test and interaction and the world’s first core competitiveness of ZTE? internet of everything (IoE) real-time orchestrated 5G end-to-end network 5 involving man-to-man, man-to- slicing demonstration and interaction. “Three Zhang Jianguo: I think the core machine, and machine-to-machine connections Innovative Products” include 4G/5G dual- competitiveness is our unique innovation 187 will be established. 5G will fully get into the mode RRUs supporting convergent 4G and 5G gene and determination for future 19 FEBSEP 2018 2016 society and change the life of everyone. “The best networks, high and low-frequency commercial development. With technology accumulation FEB 2018 ZTE ZTE way to predict future is to create it. ZTE has been base stations based on the latest 3GPP 5G NR and sustained high investment in the 3G and ZTE committed to creating a brighter 5G future with standards, and unified CN products based on the 4G eras, we have accurately identified at the industrial partners through innovation, openness, cloud platform supporting fully convergent 2G, early stage key 5G technologies represented cooperation and win-win,” says Zhang Jianguo, 3G, 4G and 5G networks. by Massive MIMO. These technologies can Senior Vice President of ZTE, speaking to ZTE be commercially available on 4G networks Technologies about the company’s business in advance to significantly improve the philosophy. He also shares his views on 5G performance of existing networks and help standardization and building the 5G ecosystem.

As the MWC 2018 draws near, what will ZTE showcase in the wireless sector of ZTE booth?

Zhang Jianguo: Focusing on the theme— Leading 5G Innovations, ZTE will highlight its three leadership advantages at the MWC 2018: commercialization leadership, performance leadership, and cost leadership. The highlights of ZTE booth can be summarized as “One Live Broadcast”, “Two Interactions”, and “Three Innovative Products”. “One Live Broadcast” refers to a live broadcast of the world’s first inter-vendor IoDT test

Zhang Jianguo, Senior Vice President of ZTE SVP View

in 5G R&D each year, accounting for 15% of our VEON, Telekom Malaysia, Korea Telecom, of 5G standards. We are the first in the industry total R&D staff and 25% of our total investment China Unicom, and China Telecom. ZTE focuses to promote unified global 5G standards while in R&D respectively. This is to ensure our leading on deploying commercial 5G networks in major opposing 5G standards fragmentation. We have position in time-to-market (TTM) and performance countries and for mainstream multinational submitted more than 3500 proposals on 3GPP of 5G products and maintain our cost advantage. operators, aiming to provide products and 5G NR and gained three editor seats for essential services for the world’s first 5G commercial 5G standards including 3GPP RAN2, RAN3 and What has ZTE accomplished towards the deployments. We have also been promoting RAN4. ZTE 5G expert, Ms. Gao Yin, has been commercial deployment of 5G? and exchanging ideas about 5G with renowned elected as Vice Chairman of 3GPP RAN3. With its Vodafone, Telstra, and SingTel to extend our intensive research and innovation advantages in Zhang Jianguo: ZTE made continued effort partnerships with more partners. MUSA, ZTE initiated and played a leading role in in commercializing 5G in 2017. We have NOMA, a key technology focusing on the physical established partnerships with more than 20 high- The success of 5G depends on the maturity layer aspects of 5G NR, and led the research operators remove their pain points. Today Massive end operators worldwide and has completed over of the whole industry chain. What does ZTE on the NOMA project as the first speaker. It is MIMO has been commercially deployed on a large 10 pre-commercial 5G tests and trials. think of that? commonly agreed in the industry that ZTE lagged scale in the global market including China, Japan, Together with Wind Tre, Italy’s largest behind rivals in 2G, caught up with them in 3G, 20 Europe and Asia Pacific. Also, we have made further mobile operator, and Open Fiber, Italy’s wired Zhang Jianguo: Industry collaboration is of great and stood at par with them in 4G, but by now ZTE 21 innovations. We took the lead in the industry to operator, ZTE won the bid for building the first importance in driving 5G commercialization. as a representative of China Power has gradually FEB 2018 FEB 2018 release FDD Massive MIMO, and cooperated with pre-commercial 5G network in Europe. This This is also ZTE’s mission. Not long ago, ZTE taken the lead in 5G. ZTE ZTE Telenet Belgium to complete the first FDD Massive indicates that ZTE has been recognized by collaborated with China Mobile to complete the MIMO field test in Europe, setting a record for LTE European mainstream operators. ZTE also signed world’s first end-to-end 5G NR IoDT test based More vertical industries will be involved single-cell throughput at a bandwidth of 20 Mbps. a cooperation agreement with Orange France on on 3GPP R15 standards. In this test, ZTE’s 5G in 5G. How do you see the impact of the MUSA is another key 5G technology proposed by testing standalone architecture of a 5G multi- pre-commercial base stations and Qualcomm’s industrial ecosystem on commercial 5G ZTE. By eliminating scheduling operations and site trial network located in Europe. Jointly with 5G terminal prototypes were used. ZTE also deployment? selecting resources randomly, MUSA achieves an Telefonica, ZTE completed phase-1 5G transport collaborated with Intel to launch the world’s overload rate of up to 600 percent. This solves the test including CU/DU split architecture, NG core, first SDN/NFV-based 5G RAN solution. ZTE’s Zhang Jianguo: In the 5G era, there will be mass commercial application problem of future and 5G Flexhaul solution. Both partners will advanced SDN/NFV virtualization technologies more cross-industry collaborations to drive in- massive IoT connections. continue to perform phase-2 transport test and combined with the latest Intel architecture depth 5G integration with vertical industries So we can say innovation is our only choice further verification for 5G end-to-end solutions. processors will significantly drive the commercial and to endow great power to 5G. ZTE will no to tackle all the problems. In the future, we will In November 2017, Japan’s SoftBank started 5G use of 5G. longer be a pure equipment vendor, but still be still adhere to innovation in three aspects. First, field tests with ZTE immediately after obtaining the Furthermore, ZTE actively participated in committed to promoting 5G industrial applications develop more advanced NR technologies to license for a 5G test at the 4.5 GHz band. In China’s China’s 5G tests led and planned by the government and building the ecosystem. We have joined the support leaping enhancements in 5G technical Guangzhou University Town, ZTE and China and successfully completed the phase-1 and phase-2 Apollo alliance and collaborated with Baidu, indicators; second, provide a more flexible Mobile conducted the 5G field test for continuous tests. The results were far beyond KPIs defined China Mobile, and Beijing University of Posts and architecture to support future new functionalities coverage involving multiple base stations, which by ITU, setting many new records in the industry. Telecommunications to verify the key technologies and services while being adaptive to the existing almost met the requirements of commercial 5G ZTE is in a leading position in the industrial of autonomous driving. We have also become a transmission, site resources, 4G to 5G evolution networks. Moreover, ZTE ran 5G trials in Shenzhen development of 5G. member of the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), and their convergence; third, introduce end-to- and Suzhou in cooperation with China Unicom and and have jointly promoted the development of end network slicing based on virtual infrastructure China Telecom respectively. What role does ZTE play in the 5G autonomous driving with 40 other members. to enable real-time, flexible, and on-demand By the end of 2017, ZTE had established standardization of 5G? Moreover, ZTE has built up 5G research centers in allocation of network resources. partnerships on 5G with global top operators such cooperation with many universities in China. All We have established a 5G R&D team of over as China Mobile, Japan’s SoftBank, Telefonica, Zhang Jianguo: ZTE has always been a major these are explorations and efforts we have made in 4,500 specialists and have invested 3 billion RMB Wind Tre, Orange France, T-Mobile, Telenet, participant and contributor in the formulation building the entire 5G ecosystem. Special Topic: 5G Innovations

will still play a principal service-bearing role, while 5G access cloud engine (ACE), is also moving toward a Pre5G: networks will largely bear the services of high-end and commercial stage. hotspot areas and new services like uRLLC. Under this circumstance, the 4G evolution and 5G deployment 5G-Oriented Applications Enabling the 5G Era will advance abreast to collaboratively improve user experience with multiple networks. Moreover, Based on the xGbps MBB and massive IoT, Pre5G with SDR features, Pre5G will evolve to 5G through can provides broad lines of 5G-oriented digital services By Ding Guanghe software upgrade. This creates a more promising and applications that include eMBB-based high data prospect for Pre5G. rate services (for example, ultra HD videos, VR, and online HD games) and massive IoT applications based Building 5G-like Networks, Enabling the 5G Era on NB-IoT and eMTC (like smart city, intelligent parking, environmental surveillance, and wearables) , s Pre5G technologies predicted that 5G terminals will be used The total Pre5G solution revolves around enabling thereby enabling the seamless connection to the future and services evolve on a large scale in two years or even the 5G-like eMBB, 5G-ready network architecture, and 5G digital life. continually, their later after 5G standards have matured. It 5G-oriented service applications for comprehensive 5G performance and is therefore believed that 5G deployment network construction. As a world-leading wireless solution provider, A applications are and application is an on-demand and ZTE, while implementing the Pre5G solution, has been 227 increasingly marked by 5G-like step-by-step process that can give a 5G-Like eMBB advancing the global commercial use of 5G networks, 23 features. Meanwhile, the 5G standards full play to post-4G technologies. The such as xGbps networks, NB-IoT networks, and FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 have gradually matured, and the time performance of existing networks is eMBB is the first and most important 5G service virtualized cloud-based networks. By the end of 2017, ZTE ZTE ZTE for 5G commercialization is drawing being gradually increased during the 4G that can reach a peak cell rate of 10 Gbps. Pre5G ZTE’s Pre5G-related products and solutions had been near. What “sparks” will be created network evolution. ZTE’s Pre5G not has adopted various mobile broadband technologies deployed in over 110 networks of 60-plus countries when Pre5G meets 5G? There are only covers the 4G network evolution and their portfolios, such as high-order MIMO, including China, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Spain, certain expectations or curiosities in the but also uses key 5G technologies on 4G multi-carrier aggregation, ultra-dense networking, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. The industry. Can Pre5G co-exist with 5G? terminals in advance. Therefore, with 4G and high-order modulation, and these technologies worldwide application of Pre5G not only benefits 4G Will Pre5G evolve to 5G? Is it better networks having 5G-like performance, continue to evolve. The Massive MIMO technology subscribers but also provides valuable reference for 5G to first deploy Pre5G than wait for 5G? people can enjoy 5G experience now, increases the spectrum efficiency by eight times. commercial deployment in the future. In October 2017, ZTE launched its as proven by plenty of Pre5G networks With function portfolios including multi-carrier With years of commercial Pre5G practices and Pre5G upgrade solution following its currently deployed for commercial use. aggregation, Pre5G can increase the cell peak comprehensive 5G investments, ZTE has been innovation philosophy of “enjoying the In the future, or in at least the throughput to the xGbps level, bringing 5G-like providing 5G end-to-end network solutions and pre- present, co-building the future”. The next decade, Pre5G will serve as a broadband service experience. commercial products covering wireless, core network, solution points out a direction for the mainstream service-bearer network transport and network management, greatly signifying industry. and co-exist with 5G for collaborative 5G-Ready Architecture its role as a 5G pioneer in the industry. As a chief development. On the one hand, due to contributor in global standard research, ZTE has Enjoying the Present, Co-Building differential service development, 5G Cloudification has become an irresistible trend in submitted more than 4,000 international proposals the Future will be gradually deployed in high-end network development, and the industry players have concerning 5G NR and led the research on the 3GPP markets, while 4G evolution (or Pre5G) totally accepted the concept that cloudification should NOMA standard. In China, ZTE took the initiatives At present, although the time for networks will still dominate the middle- precede 5G deployment. The Pre5G solution introduces to complete all the 5G phase 2 testing items in 2017, 5G commercial use is approaching, the and low-end markets. These multiple a cloud-based network architecture that encompasses with the results in the eMBB, eMTC, and uRLLC mass commercialization of 5G must rely networks will co-exist for a long term. the core and access networks and continues to evolve. scenarios hitting the ITU-defined KPIs and the on a mature industry chain including On the other hand, due to user habits, ZTE’s Cloud ServCore, based on network function industrial records in succession. Meanwhile, ZTE has Ding Guanghe business models and terminals. From 4G subscribers will still dominate virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Native, is facilitating been working with mainstream operators like China Director of Wireless the terminal aspect, based on industry the market. That is, 4G and post-4G the smooth and quick introduction of 5G network Mobile, Softbank, and Telefonica to carry out field Solution, ZTE experience in 4G commercial use , it is networks after the introduction of Pre5G functions. ZTE’s Cloud RAN, based on the NFV and and pre-commercial tests. Special Topic: 5G Innovations

The Convergence core network or changing existing 4G terminals, the solution can significantly improve spectrum efficiency. Moreover, the deployment and upgrade of existing 4G networks needs to be prepared for 5G evolution. This of 4G and 5G ensures a smooth evolution while protecting the existing investment. ZTE’s 4G series of products including RRUs, AAUs, and BBUs support the smooth evolution Drives Network to 5G, and can be directly deployed in 4G networks to offer 4G services. Once 5G standards are frozen and operators begin to deploy 5G networks, these products Evolution can support 5G through software upgrade. The convergence of 4G and 5G also needs to consider the network evolution. Accordingly, the ZXRAN R8894E ZXRAN R8998E By Zhang Jiong convergence has to be done in stages. At the first stage, by using the cutting-edge LTE-A, LTE-A Pro, and part of 5G technologies, RRU series is exactly the leading product solution that 4G networks continue to evolve in terms of larger can support 5G only through software upgrade. For capacity, lower latency, more connections, and more example, both ZXRAN R8894E and ZXRAN R8998E 247 rom the technical based on existing 4G networks. All this flexible architecture. ZTE’s Pre5G is a total solution support 4G and 5G, and allow for easy evolution to 5G. 25 development raises a real and pressing need for the They are the most cost-effective and flexible solution FEBSEP 2018 2016 that incorporates new and innovative technologies FEB 2018 perspective, 5G is convergence of 4G and 5G. for deploying 5G-oriented networks at the present stage. ZTE ZTE and solutions such as Massive MIMO, LAA, and NB- ZTE an innovation and The evolution of 4G networks needs IoT/eMTC. The Pre5G solution has been deployed From the BBU perspective, a BBU needs to support F revolution based on to leverage the fruits of 5G development both 4G and 5G, and has the capability of flexible and commercialized in more than 110 networks of 4G and also a natural evolution and as many as possible. Applying a part over 60 countries. configuration and collaboration. ZTE’s new-generation extension of 4G. From the perspective of 5G technologies in 4G networks in At the second stage, 4G and 5G networks will start BBU is a virtual BBU based on the IT platform. of network deployment, initial 5G advance allows ordinary users to enjoy to converge, after the first version of 5G standards will It supports both 4G and 5G, and implements dual networks may not be deployed on a better service experience. This doesn’t be released in 2018 and 5G networks will be gradually connections in a converged 4G/5G network scenario. continuous and complete basis but mean to separate 5G completely from deployed by operators in some countries. Over a period Its distinct advantages like small size, large capacity, need to converge and collaborate with 4G to miss the opportunities for network of time, 4G and 5G networks will co-exist, and so will and flexible deployment are important guarantees for existing 4G networks that are more evolution. ZTE’s Massive MIMO is 4G and 5G terminals. The percentage of 4G terminals the evolution from 4G to 5G. ZXRAN V9200, a leading extensively covered and well developed. just a typical solution that applies 5G will be significantly higher than that of 5G terminals. In BBU based on the IT platform, supports both 4G and According to the GSMA’s forecast, core technologies in advance to current this case, a quality 4G/5G network will certainly require 5G, and flexible configuration and networking modes. global 4G connections will grow rapidly 4G networks. Without modifying the a superb solution to 4G/5G convergence. With ultra-high capacity, ZXRAN V9200 can meet the for many years and even continue to needs for deploying 4G, 5G, and converged 4G and 5G 70% From the RRU perspective, ZTE’s Pre5G Massive Percentagr of connections surpass 5G connections for a period of MIMO is a perfect solution for seamless intra-frequency networks in multiple scenarios. 60% time (Fig. 1). This growth trend matches upgrade to 5G. The solution supports gradual frequency The convergence of 4G and 5G drives smooth 50% the maturity of 4G and its industry refarming to 5G on appropriate bands. However, in backward network evolution, so the cost-effective chain, the potential of 4G evolution, 40% the 4G era, a non-Massive MIMO RRU also needs to smooth evolution solution with advanced technologies the abundance of 4G terminals, and and superior performance are a preferred choice 30% support 5G at a minimal cost. ZTE’s new-generation the unbalanced development of current for operators. Drawing on its rapid and efficient 20% networks worldwide. In this context, deployment and delivery experience and the future 10% in order to maintain competitive evolution capability, ZTE has rolled out a complete Zhang Jiong 0% advantages, it is imperative to converge 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 industry-leading 4G/5G convergence solution that will

2G 3G 4G 5G FDD Product Solution 4G and 5G, and optimize the capital certainly help operators gain an upper hand and have Manager, ZTE structure and network evolution path Fig. 1. GSMA’s global mobile connections forecast. ZXRAN V9200 more success in the upcoming 5G era. Special Topic: 5G Innovations

Feasibility Analysis of 3.5 GHz NR SA Deployment Fig. 1A. Comparison of UL coverage at the edge rate of 2 Mbps. Fig. 1B. Comparison of UL coverage at the edge rate of 1 Mbps.

for 5G NR. Multiple antennas and its flexible beam as more antennas give more dimensional freedom, forming capability can increase receiver sensitivity and larger UL ratio means longer UL transmission in the uplink and support MU-MIMO and high- duration. These comparisons are targeted to uplink By Wang Xiaoming dimensional anti-interference. budget because the coverage of both 4G LTE and 5G ● Huge bandwidth: Typical 3.5 GHz carrier NR is uplink-limited. In the downlink (DL), 3.5 GHz bandwidth approaches 100 MHz that is much larger NR can provide much better coverage than 4G LTE than LTE 20 MHz. This bandwidth advantage because bandwidth advantage in the DL can be easily can be easily transformed to coverage advantage transformed to data rate advantage. 267 27 via less inter-cell interference and longer uplink A misunderstanding about NR coverage is that FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 s the first release of 5G New Technologies in NR for transmission duration. many people think NSA can improve NR coverage, ZTEZTE ZTE standards is approaching, Coverage Improvement but this is not true. In the NSA mode, terminals need leading operators Link Budget and Simulation to assign one Tx antenna for 4G and leave only one worldwide are making As the 3.5 GHz band suffers higher antenna for 5G NR UL transmission, while in the SA A preparations for their propagation loss than typical LTE low A detailed link budget calculation has been made mode both two Tx antennas are allocated for 5G NR. initial 5G launch. Since the 3.5 GHz band bands such as FDD 1.8 GHz and TDD for 3.5 GHz NR and typical 4G scenarios including Based on ZTE’s calculation, NR cell radius in the NSA (3.3 GHz–3.8 GHz) will be a dominant 1.9 GHz, it is commonly believed that FDD 1.8 GHz (2R/4R), FDD 2.6 GHz (2R/4R), TDD mode will shrink 30% compared with the SA mode. mid-band choice for these early 5G the 3.5 GHz NR may cover less areas 1.9 GHz (8R) and TDD 2.3 GHz (8R). The 3.5 GHz Moreover, this single antenna transmission in the deployments, its coverage capability will than 4G bands. However, 5G NR is NR considers four scenarios: 16 antennas with 20% uplink will convey less channel information to BS and have a big influence on operators’ 5G a totally new air interface that has UL ratio, 16 antennas with 40% UL ratio, 64 antennas lead to performance degrade of DL MU-MIMO. strategy. Some operators prefer the non- introduced advanced technologies to with 20% UL ratio, and 64 antennas with 40% UL ZTE has further researched the coverage standalone (NSA) deployment mode compensate most of the additional loss. ratio. Other assumptions include 20 MHz bandwidth performance of 3.5 GHz NR deployment based on as they believe that 3.5 GHz new radio These technologies include: for 4G and 100 MHz for 5G NR. The antenna operators’ existing 4G networks. Assume an operator (NR) is incapable to provide continuous ● Enhancement in the terminal side: configuration at the terminal side is 1T2R for 4G deploys 3.5 GHz NR by solely utilizing existing 4G coverage. To fully understand the Mainstream 5G NR terminals will (23 dBm Tx power) and 2T4R for 5G NR (26 dBm Tx sites, and ZTE runs some simulations to estimate coverage performance of 3.5 GHz NR, have two transmitter (Tx) antennas power). For TD-LTE, 20% UL ratio is adopted. The its coverage performance. For example, a dense ZTE has worked hard with its partners in the uplink (UL) with a total cell edge rate is set as 2 Mbps and 1 Mbps separately urban area contains 102 4G sites. If 3.5 GHz NR is in the research involving theoretical output power of 26 dBm, while (Fig. 1A and B). deployed in all these 102 sites, the simulation shows analysis and field trials. Based on the typical 4G terminals have only one Fig. 1 shows whether at the edge rate of 2 or that 97.7% of the area can achieve a DL data rate research results, ZTE is confident to Tx antenna with an output power of 1 Mbps, 3.5 GHz NR with 16 antennas (40% UL of over 100 Mbps, and 96.5% of the area a UL data announce that 3.5 GHz NR can provide 23 dBm. The higher output power ratio) or 64 antennas (20% UL ratio) has similar cell rate of over 2 Mbps. If 12 new sites (almost 10% of similar coverage as FDD LTE 1.8 GHz, and Tx precoding scheme will radius as FDD 1.8 GHz (2R), and TDD 1.9 GHz existing sites) are added, the 2 Mbps UL coverage Wang Xiaoming and can support either standalone (SA) greatly enhance UL coverage. (8R) is comparable with 3.5 GHz NR (16R with 20% ratio can increase to 98.2%, and the 100 Mbps DL Wireless Solution or NSA deployment mode as required ● Massive MIMO: At the base station, UL ratio). The figure also shows that more antennas coverage ratio can reach 98.5%. The similar results Architect, ZTE by operators. 16 or 64 antennas will be deployed and larger UL ratio in NR can lead to better coverage are also shown in other cases. Special Topic: 5G Innovations

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Fig. 2. Site distribution of 5G NR field trial in Guangzhou, China. 287 29 G brings challenges to Diverse 5G Scenarios FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 Field Trial in Guangzhou China Summary existing networks in ZTE ZTE ZTE terms of technologies 5G scenarios such as enhanced To better learn the NR coverage performance in real Both link budget analysis and field trial have and business models. mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra- environments, ZTE has partnered with China Mobile proven that 3.5 GHz 5G NR can provide comparable 5 Due to the limitations reliable low-latency communications to conduct verification tests in a 5G NR field trial in coverage as the current mainstream 4G bands. ZTE’s of the legacy network capabilities, (uRLLC) and massive machine type Guangzhou China. This trial is one of the world’s simulation based on the existing 4G sites has also network requirements for various communication (mMTC) have different largest 5G NR field trials jointly set up by China shown that operators do not need to invest a lot in industries can only be solved by requirements in terms of bandwidth, Mobile and ZTE, operating at the 3.5 GHz band (Fig. 2). additional sites for NR continuous coverage. creating dedicated networks. With mobility, security, latency, reliability Many tests items are designed to verify the 3.5 GHz To meet operator needs for SA deployment, ZTE the legacy silo architecture, networks and charging. Creating a dedicated NR coverage performance and its difference from 4G. has placed the same priority on SA development as become more and more complicated network for each service will lead to One test item is to compare 4G and 5G UL throughput on NSA development, and has planned to support and O&M increasingly difficult. high costs for network construction within the same cell coverage. 4G antenna and 5G NR SA (option 2) at the second half of 2018. ZTE is High investments and low efficiency and increasingly complicated O&M. AAU were mounted at the same pole, with the same conducting or has planned to conduct SA field trials restrict the industry development and Network slicing will effectively solve Azimuth and tilt. The ratio of time slot allocation for 4G with leading operators worldwide including China business opportunities. these problems. TDD was set as SA/SSP = 2/7 and that for 5G NR was set Mobile, Orange, and WindTre to better learn the cons The development and applications of ZTE’s E2E 5G network slicing as DL 70%. One 4G terminal and one 5G NR test terminal and pros of various deployment modes. virtualization, SDN and cloud computing technology (Fig. 1) enables operators to were used for testing UL throughput in a full buffer mode. ZTE believes that 3.5 GHz NR can provide make it possible for vertical applications create multiple virtual networks over the Both terminals were installed in the same trolley, using continuous coverage and the SA deployment mode is to run in the isolated 5G network slices same physical infrastructure. The virtual the same antenna type (external 5 dBi omni). The 4G technically feasible. For operators owning 3.5 GHz bands that are created on top of a common networks provide various telecom terminal adopted 1T2R, while 5G NR were configured for NR, both SA and NSA are viable options. NSA option infrastructure. 5G network slicing will services and network capabilities to with 2T2R. The preliminary results from early tests features quick time to market and less investment in produce new business models, and support diverse 5G scenarios. ZTE’s showed that 5G NR provided much better UL throughput initial launch, while SA mode features minimum impact promote the digital transformation of network slicing technology has the Huang Yan in almost all locations no matter in LOS or NLOS on existing networks and straightforward evolution path. industry and society. following characteristics: scenarios. More tests are currently made by both parties, Operators can choose their own deployment options to ● Resource sharing to reduce costs and Wireless Planning and the results will be released soon. best meet their 5G strategies. E2E Network Slicing to Support enhance efficiency: Multiple network Engineer, ZTE Special Topic: 5G Innovations

core network traffic and improving service environment of business opportunities. and user experience. ZTE’s Carrier DevOps Builder is the world’s first CP/SP/ Third party developer commercial carrier-grade DevOps environment, which Transport Network provides end-to-end automatic slice O&M. It has the Smart home BSS following characteristics: Network slicing in transport network is enabled by ● Wizard-based development: It supports a wizard- Autonomous driving AI OSS Orchestration /Big the SDN-based IP/optical integration. based graphical interface, components drag-and- Data EMS Resource allocation and security isolation in drop, and rich slice templates to enable quick design Factory automation transport networks are critical to the end-to-end of network slices and easily complete the self- network slicing. With ZTE’s end-to-end network definition from network function (NF) to network 2G/3G/LTE/NB-IoT slicing, SDN is used to provide connectivity among service (NS) to 5G network slices. MEC Service ● U clouds, which helps achieve multi-tenant WAN and E2E orchestration, minute-level launch: One-key 5G NR P rd AMF SMF P C F 3 F cross-site VM migration, automatic service adaption, deployment enables new services to be quickly C D W S … I F N F UPF-C UDC U and end-to-end orchestration using open APIs. In applied to the network. The online intelligent Region/Core DC WiFi/Fixed Edge DC addition, SDN backbone networks can achieve synergy inspection module guarantees the correctness before between the IP and optical layers, automatically adjust service on-boarding. E2E resource orchestration and Terminal Access network Transport network Core network bandwidth and SLAs on-demand, optimize traffic coordination is supported vertically over the layers scheduling by using the global view of the network, of application, network and physical resource, Fig. 1. E2E 5G network architecture. and reduce transmission cost. and horizontally over different domains (access, transport and core). Real-time monitoring for slice Core Network status, and automatic coordination can guarantee slices running on a common network infrastructure can be fully guaranteed. the service quality of network. 307 greatly reduce construction cost, improve utilization It is based on a service-oriented cloud native ● AI-driven O&M: The network slicing 31 of network resources, and shorten time-to-market. Access Network architecture to enable flexible and on-demand orchestration system can perceive the resource FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 ● Logically isolated to ensure security and construction of slices. status and makes decisions according to ZTE ZTE ZTE reliability: The network slices are isolated from Network slicing is achieved by implementing ZTE’s 5G core network is based on a cloud native predefined policies, thus achieving true, zero- each other and each slice is self-contained. The decoupling and network function reconstruction. MEC microservice architecture that allows for network touch automation. failure on one slice does not adversely affect the is utilized to improve user experience. function re-configuration. It has three features. The The complete DevOps O&M model makes it operation of other slices. Decoupling not only refers to the separation first feature is application componentization. An possible to achieve rapid service innovation and ● Customizable and elastic: Network slicing is based of radio resource allocation from service requests application is divided into a set of microservice network intelligence. on a cloud native, service-oriented architecture and (network parameters such as QoS, GBR, and ARP components with each microservice supporting a enables customized network slices for different are used to achieve loose coupling between services specific function. These components can be used as Summary scenarios. With real-time monitoring of slice and resources), but also refers to the separation building blocks to create network slices on demand. performance, network resources can be dynamically of the hardware and software functions within an The second one is a stateless and hierarchical design, Facing the complicated 5G scenarios, it is difficult allocated to different slices, which helps fulfill access network. After the decoupling, the BBU which separates applications from data, and provides for any information service provider to provide all SLAs. is reconstructed into two functional entities: the more elasticity and better fault tolerance. The third is the information services; therefore, an open and ● Implemented in an end-to-end manner to fully meet centralized unit (CU) and distributed unit (DU). The lightweight virtualization. Containers are a form of convergent industrial ecosystem is particularly the diverse service requirements: A network slice CU provides non real-time processing functions, while lightweight virtualization that provides rapid scale in/ important. Operators, vendors and vertical industries instance covers multiple domains of the network the DU provides real-time processing functions, which out and high performance. Cloud native applications need to cooperate with each other to supply efficient (terminal, access network, transport network and allows for real-time performance optimization, on- are deployed in containers to achieve better resource and diversified network services to users. As one of core network). demand scheduling of the network resources and the utilization and rapid delivery and agile maintenance the leaders in network cloudification, after launching slicing of access network. of services. the industry’s first commercial cloud native Carrier E2E Network Slicing to Meet Differentiated MEC introduces the virtualized service platform DevOps Builder, ZTE keeps optimizing its application Network Demands to the wireless network, which effectively moves the Carrier-Grade DevOps for Network Slicing scenarios and verifying its commercialization service anchor towards the edge, shortens the service capability. ZTE has cooperated with global leading While constructing end-to-end network slice, response time, and pushes computing capabilities to the As there will be a large number of different operators, such as Wind Tre, Open Fiber, Orange and the network capabilities of each domain can be edge nodes. By tapping into local content and real-time network slices in the 5G era, automation of network Telefonica, to build 5G pre-commercial networks and configured separately and adjusted on demand. As a radio network information, it accelerates the delivery slice design, deployment and maintenance will directly to test key 5G enabling technologies, pushing forward result, the end-to-end bandwidth, QoS and security of contents, services and applications, thereby reducing affect the speed of service innovation and exploitation the digital transformation of society. Special Topic: 5G Innovations

Service-oriented E2E slicing Flexible function orchestration On-demand NE deployment 5G E2E 5G RAN Flexhaul Cloud ServCore

MANO Solutions NFVO SDNO Access cloud engine N*25GE/50GE/100GE 10GE/25GE FlexE Tailored to Your Needs VNFM

Edge DC Region/Core DC 5G NR Ecosystem: Standard organizations, vertical industries and open sources By Duan Xiaowei Fig. 1. ZTE’s E2E 5G solution.

covering 26 GHz and 28 GHz millimeter wave NFV field. 327 (MMW) and mainstream candidate 5G bands such as In the MANO part, the global management and 33 3.5 GHz, 4.5 GHz, and below 1 GHz. The baseband orchestration system schedules and manages 5G RAN, FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 s 5G standards and field operators’ business needs. platform based on virtualized architecture supports transport, and core network resources in a unified ZTE ZTE ZTE tests develop rapidly, flexible deployment of 5G centralized units (CUs) manner, to generate optimal end-to-end network 5G has undoubtedly 5G E2E Solutions and distributed units (DUs). Moreover, ZTE has led slices for specific vertical industries or service. These become the hottest the research and commercial use of key 5G Massive network slices are dynamically adjusted and optimized A topic in the mobile ZTE, a pioneer in 5G innovation, MIMO technology. as required by services. communication industry. Compared with is committed to providing the most In the 5G transport part, ZTE’s Flexhaul solution In the Ecosystem part, ZTE is committed to 4G, 5G not only increases access rates competitive 5G end-to-end solutions not only handles hybrid access of front-haul, mid-haul, collaborating with partners to build a 5G new but also enables mobile communication for global mobile operators, based and back-haul flexibly but also meets the requirement ecosystem and is totally involved in the fields to be more closely connected to vertical on its powerful R&D capability. The of on-demand connections among data centers after covering standard research and collaboration, open industries and human production and company strives to work closely with network functions are virtualized. With the world- source collaboration, operator collaboration, and life. 5G will lay a solid foundation for its strategic partners in the first wave of leading FlexE technology, the Flexhaul solution cooperation with vertical industry. This lays a solid the coming of the IoT digital society. 5G commercialization, aiming to jointly can provide the ultra-high-speed broadband access foundation for 5G ecosystem construction, scale In commercial 5G deployment, promote the development of the 5G capability for eMBB services through flexible slicing commercial deployment, and exploration in 5G the completeness and maturity of 5G industry chain and accelerate the process and deliver ultra-low latency forwarding for delay- business models. solutions that vendors offer will have of 5G commercialization. sensitive services. a significant impact on the overall ZTE is also one of the few equipment In the 5G core network part, ZTE’s Cloud ServCore Four Capabilities performance of 5G networks and suppliers in the industry that can provide solution based on cloud native and micro-service long-term development of operators. 5G E2E solutions covering 5G RAN, architecture can satisfy the needs of diverse vertical 5G E2E networks have four outstanding capabilities Although operators do not always Flexhaul, Cloud ServCore, MANO, and industrial applications through its flexible service over 4G networks. The four capabilities are ultra- purchase an end-to-end (E2E) 5G Ecosystem (Fig. 1). The solutions have orchestration capability, agile development and O&M broadband access, massive IoT connectivity, ultra- system from a vendor, the capability the capabilities of service-oriented E2E flow, and on-demand deployment mode. At the SDN reliable low latency, and E2E network slicing. of offering an E2E solution helps the slicing, flexible function orchestration, NFV World Congress 2017, ZTE won the “Best New Duan Xiaowei vendor more deeply understand 5G and on-demand NE deployment. Orchestration and Control” award with its Carrier Ultra-Broadband Access Wireless Solution network requirements and provide In the 5G RAN part, ZTE has DevOps Builder. The award fully showcases ZTE’s Architect, ZTE more competitive 5G solutions to meet developed a series of 5G RF modules innovation capability and leading position in the SDN/ Ultra-broadband access is the earliest 5G Special Topic: 5G Innovations

ZTE’s 3-Pronged

application scenario and also the focus of operators services and capabilities by the slice as required. nowadays. With its rich experience in the wireless This helps operators introduce innovative services IoT Strategy: communication field, ZTE has achieved excellent and improve their network value. ZTE’s 5G network performance in the national Phase-2 and 5G field tests slicing supports end-to-end (covering wireless, conducted by China Mobile. The peak cell throughput transport and core network) on-demand orchestration in the eMBB scenario exceeds 19 Gbps, and the peak and management, and also supports logical and Chipset, Network and Cloud rate of a single user exceeds 2 Gbps using 200 MHz secure isolation among network slices. To date, bandwidth at the 3.5 GHz band. ZTE has successfully completed 5G network slicing verification tests with China Mobile, Telefonica, and Massive IoT Connectivity China Telecom. By Yang Longzhi

IoT is another important 5G application scenario Benefits besides eMBB, and also a major source of operator revenue in the future. The fast maturity and scale ZTE has launched 5G E2E solutions that 347 deployment of NB-IoT delays to some extent the can satisfy the needs of the first 5G commercial 35 operator requirements for 5G IoT access capabilities. operators worldwide. It has also made outstanding FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 However, with the rapid development of IoT achievements in 5G key technologies, solution uring the past decade, communication standard. Narrowband ZTE ZTE ZTE applications, the number of IoT connected terminals in architecture, and product development. For people have been IoT (NB-IoT) is a low power wide area the 5G era will far exceed the access capability of NB- instance, its Massive MIMO is the first to be thinking about how network (LPWAN) radio technology IoT. With the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) commercially deployed in the industry, and to use technology to that enables a wide range of devices technologies such as multi-user shared access (MUSA), ZTE has gained rich commercial experience. D improve quality of life. and services to be connected using 5G can increase the number of low-speed wide-area Its 3.5 GHz 5G NR RF modules are ahead of Recently, Sidewalk Labs announced cellular telecommunication bands. IoT connections to over 2 million per cell. those made by western vendors in terms of that it will develop Quayside in Toronto, Standardization of NB-IoT began in commercialization and network performance. Canada into the city of the future using 2015 and was completed in 2016. 2017 Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Its virtualized baseband platform can handle the cutting-edge digital technologies. In saw pre-commercial trials of NB-IoT in largest 5G NR configuration in the industry and China, ZTE also actively participates in key areas worldwide. Therefore, NB-IoT Ultra-reliable low latency communication is support the convergence of 4G and 5G. Its 5G similar exploratory projects. is the standard that has been popularized the basis for mission critical applications including transport prototype is the first to be launched in most quickly in recent decades. The automatic drive, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality the industry, with a node forwarding latency of less Current Status of IoT LTE-based eMTC technology also (VR), tactile internet, and industrial control. It is also than 1 us. Its Carrier DevOps Builder, the 5G core attracts great attention, especially in one of the core capabilities that distinguish 5G from network based on cloud native and micro-service Although the concept of the internet North America, due to its advantages 4G. In China’s national Phase-2 test, ZTE demonstrated architecture won the “Best New Orchestration and of things (IoT) was put forward decades in low power consumption, full-duplex the air interface capability with an ultra-low latency Control” award in the SDN/NFV field. ago, there have been no large-scale operation, and VoLTE support. of 0.42 ms. Assisted by the Flexhaul ultra-low latency Moreover, ZTE has actively worked with leading IoT deployments due to fragmentation Moreover, facing the technically forwarding technology and mobile edge computing mobile operators such as China Mobile and Softbank of standards and a lack of strong use demanding environments and architecture, ZTE can provide the most competitive E2E to complete the pre-commercial verification of its cases. However, with the technological complicated application scenarios in the ultra-low latency solution in the industry. 5G E2E solutions. ZTE has also established close developments which change the future, the global telecommunication cooperation with Orange, Telefonica, and Telstra to way we work and live, international industry is committed to developing the Yang Longzhi E2E Network Slicing jointly validate the network performance of 5G E2E standard bodies, such as ITU and 5G standard to enable ultra-reliable low Secretary-General of solutions and push forward the process of global 5G 3GPP, are paying increasing attention latency communications (uRLLC) that ZTE’s IoT Technical Network slicing enables operators to sell network commercialization. to developing a globally unified IoT requires very low latency and very high Expert Committee Special Topic: 5G Innovations

API SDK

Cloud various professional Capability enabling Big video AI Cloud Big data Others fields. Meanwhile, IoT platform based on NFV architecture by utilizing the CMP platform, ZTE can Network also fully optimize the Evolve to 5G interconnection with vMME vXGW vHSS SCEF 5G NG Core the core network and provide carrier-class eMTC NB-IoT 5G NR Chip connectivity for IoT terminals. IoT OS Power IoT devices ZTE has been SDK actively promoting the Fig. 1. ZTE’s end-to-end IoT infrastructure solution. development of IoT. Since 2008 when ZTE provided the M2M reliability, massive machine type communications cloud platforms, and related technologies and services. platform for China 367 (mMTC) that requires high connection density, and ZTE has a three-pronged IoT strategy of chipset, Mobile, ZTE has 37 enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) that requires network and cloud (Fig. 1). For the typical four- already accumulated FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 large bandwidths to implement IoT services and tier architecture of IoT, ZTE has heavily invested in 10 years of experience ZTE ZTE ZTE traditional telecommunication services. It is obvious the research on the three layers (sensor, network and MTN’s NB-IoT pilot project in the IoT field. Good that NB-IoT/eMTC-based low-speed IoT and platform) below the application layer. news came frequently 5G-based high-speed IoT are the necessary steps to With respect to chipsets, in September 27 2017, in networks, the innovative MUSA technology to in the past two enable the internet of everything. The 5G mMTC ZTE launched RoseFinch7100, which is the first self- support a huge number of connections, and SDMA years. In 2016, ZTE became the first in the industry to technology is very likely to evolve from the current developed NB-IoT chip in China. RoseFinch7100 to drastically increase the transmission capacity. demonstrate the verification based on NB-IoT in China NB-IoT/eMTC technology. features the chip-level security with the trusted Meanwhile, with years of R&D in virtualized core Mobile’s 5G innovation laboratory. In May 2017, ZTE execution environment (TEE). For the future, ZTE has networks, ZTE can support various services ranging worked with MTN in South Africa to complete the NB- ZTE’s Strategy carried out research on 5G terminal chips (Wisefone from NB-IoT/eMTC to 5G IoT with an NFV-based IoT end-to-end function verification. In October 2017, series) to meet ultra-high rate and ultra-low latency core network, which ensures a smooth generational ZTE in partnership with Telenet offered a live demo As a global telecommunication equipment provider, requirements in the complicated IoT application shift of IoT technology. of its smart parking service. For the future 5G IoT ZTE is committed to providing its customers with end- scenarios. ZTE has also launched two NB-IoT modules Cloud refers to the cloudified platform. Based applications, ZTE has completed key indicator tests in to-end IoT solutions covering chips, radio networks, (ZM8300 and ZM8301) to ensure the development on the research on cloudified platforms during the eMBB, mMTC, and uRLLC scenarios, highlighting its of the LPWA IoT industry, and developed the new- past few years, ZTE has started the R&D on the new powerful technical strength. generation IoT OS&SDK to reduce the difficulty in generation IoT platform in early 2017. The new- application development. generation platform comprises of device management Summary With respect to networks, ZTE is capable of platform (DMP), connectivity management platform providing operators with the most economical and (CMP), and operation and maintenance portal It is no doubt that the IoT will become a critical complete IoT network deployment solutions. For NB- (OMP) with application enablement platform (AEP) technology and have a great impact on our daily lives. IoT and eMTC, ZTE can rapidly implement low- sitting at the core of it. With the PaaS virtualized In the next five years, the IoT market will have tens speed IoT services based on operators’ existing LTE architecture, the new-generation IoT platform allows of billions of connections and generate trillions of networks through software upgrades, saving both for the implementation of various capabilities as dollars in revenue. IoT is poised to transform almost time and investment cost. In addition, ZTE has made microservices. The microservices, which are scalable, every major market sector. With the arrival of the IoT adequate preparations for 5G IoT. It can use short TTI can be accessed by service applications and developers era, ZTE will follow the “chipset, network, and cloud” RoseFinch7100 launch conference and CU/DU separation to reduce end-to-end latency via APIs. Thus, a universal platform can be applied to strategy to build a brilliant future.

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attendance rate reaching nearly 100%. It also formed a network guarantee scenario with the densest communication and most concentrated services in Fukuoka recently. The high-density traffic raised serious challenges for the capacity of the existing network. ZTE, which strove to guarantee proper communications services for the championship, carefully deployed onsite communications equipment, applied customized solutions such as simulation, onsite surveys, and optimization 387 of core parameters (Massive MIMO antenna technologies to 4G networks in advance and to 39 beamforming), and deployed Pre5G Massive fully enable 4G networks to evolve towards 5G FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 MIMO 2.0 products to help SoftBank build a smart networks. Compared with 4G, Pre5G enhances ZTE ZTE ZTE Pre5G Helps Japan’s ZTE and high-performance gym. the system capacity by eight times, the average According to relevant statistics, during the user bandwidth by five times, and the number of championship, the Pre5G Massive MIMO 2.0 connections per unit area by 100 times. Pre5G SoftBank Build a Smart Gym (antenna 64T64R) accounted for 80% of the total involves not only the application of some key traffic volume in SoftBank’s network. Statistics 5G technologies that can be put into commercial show that after the Pre5G Massive MIMO 2.0 use (for example, Massive MIMO) in 4G products were deployed, the downlink aggregate networks but also the enhancement of LTE-A Pro By Xiong Manqing traffic increased by 451.5%, the uplink aggregate technologies under the 3GPP architecture, such as traffic rose by 759.5%, and the average user uplink Massive CA, UDN, 256QAM, LAA, LWA, and rate went up by 42.88%. The excellent overall NB-IoT. Pre5G implements a smooth evolution performance of the Massive MIMO 2.0 network based on the existing 4G networks, effectively at the Yahuoku! Dome demonstrated its superb lowers network construction costs, and supports apan’s SoftBank high traffic, the MIMO 2.0 solution performance in high traffic scenarios. rapid deployment, dramatically increasing the Hawks sealed a guaranteed proper communication for In Tokyo, Japan, ZTE and Japan’s SoftBank cost-performance ratio. In terms of the Giga + 4-3 victory over its the whole championship and served as a Group officially signed a memorandum of MBB, Massive IoT, and network cloudization, a opponent and won the comprehensive solution to the coverage, understanding on joint research and development of combination of different technologies can be used J championship at the capacity, and user experience problems, Pre5G in July 2015. In September 2016, SoftBank to help operators fully upgrade from 4G to 5G main venue Yahuoku! Dome during helping SoftBank build a smart and announced that the “5G Project”, a project based network capacity. the 2017 Japan Series. When preparing high-performance gym network. on the next-generation high-speed communications ZTE’s Pre5G has been highly recognized in for the match, SoftBank worked with As the home field of SoftBank’s standard 5G, was kicked off. SoftBank was the first the industry. To date, its Pre5G-related products ZTE to deploy Pre5G Massive MIMO Hawks, the Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome operator to put the Massive MIMO technology into and solutions have been deployed for more than Xiong Manqing 2.0 (antenna 64T64R) after replacing can hold nearly 40,000 people. Held on commercial use, with ZTE being its major supplier. 110 networks in over 60 countries, including Brand Manager, Wireless some previous macro sites at the a magnificent scale, the championship In 2014, ZTE first proposed the Pre5G China, Japan, Austria, Singapore, Spain, at ZTE Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome. Faced with attracted a large audience, with the concept and a series of solutions to apply key 5G Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Success Stories

in Europe. The sharp increase in the number of performance. Therefore, 3D-MIMO is an important subscribers causes explosive growth of data traffic. means of improving network capacity for 4G operators How to use existing spectrum resources to reduce with wide coverage. network load and increase user satisfaction has ZTE started field tests on its 3D-MIMO base become a major problem Drei has to face. To solve stations as early as September 2014. By virtue of its this problem, Drei has chosen ZTE’s Pre5G Massive R&D capabilities and leading technologies in the MIMO solution that helps to resolve firstly the conflict 3D-MIMO field, ZTE won several awards in a year, between capacity demand surges and insufficient site such as the 2015 GTI Award for Innovative Massive resources before 5G commercialization. The solution MIMO Solution, the GTB Award for Wireless Network uses existing sites, spectrum resources, and terminals Infrastructure Innovation, and the 2015 Global to deliver network speeds and capacity far superior to Technology Innovation Award in 5G Networks by Frost 4G networks. Compared with traditional base stations, & Sullivan. Pre5G Massive MIMO products are smaller, support the BBU+AAU architecture, and are more suitable for Promoting Industrial Partnerships for the Future 5G evolution. They also support carrier aggregation (CA) to satisfy operator needs for large capacity, As the 5G era approaches, ZTE will go all out multistream transport, and enhancements in network with industry partners to bring 5G into reality in efficiency, flexibility, and cost. Pre5G Massive MIMO standards, spectrum, technology, architecture, practice, helps Drei improve user experience in high-capacity and ecology fields. In March 2017, ZTE, China and heavy loaded areas and relieve its Opex pressure Mobile and Qualcomm announced that they planned ZTE Pre5G Breaks into caused by high loads of existing network equipment. to jointly carry out the world’s first low-frequency 5G interoperability data testing (IoDT) in line with 407 3D-MIMO: Eye-Catching Technique in the Industry 3GPP R15 specifications. In November 2017, the 41 three parties jointly announced they had successfully FEBSEP 2018 2016 FEB 2018 High-End Markets The commercial implementation of Pre5G is achieved the world’s first end-to-end 5G NR IoDT ZTEZTE ZTE a consequence not only of the close collaboration system demonstrating a data connection based on between ZTE and global mainstream operators and 3GPP R15 standard. The successful interoperable By Qiu Peng their verification tests but also of ZTE’s huge R&D connection of the end-to-end 5G NR IoDT system investment and strong R&D capabilities. 3D-MIMO serves as a significant industry milestone towards plays an important role in Pre5G commercialization. pre-commercialization of 5G NR technologies at s the world has intensive and extensive seamless 3D-MIMO has inherent advantages in TD-LTE 4G scale, driving rapid development of 3GPP standards- ushered in the mobile coverage. The technology is flexible and networks. Based on uplink and downlink symmetry, it compliant networks and devices. internet era, existing can adapt to high-rise buildings, hotspot supports measurement of hundreds of channels without From the perspective of service applications, networks are faced macro coverage, stadium coverage, adding feedback channels. As a core technology for 4G ZTE has collaborated with Baidu, China Mobile, and A with the conflict and last-mile scenarios, dramatically evolution and 5G, 3D-MIMO provides more precise Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications between capacity demand surges and improving overall network quality. beamforming and more effective spatial multiplexing to verify the key technologies of automatic driving, insufficient site resources. In this to greatly reduce inter-cell interference, enhance and has became a member of the Apollo alliance, context, ZTE makes innovative use of Win-Win Cooperation with anti-interference capability, and improve network 5G Automotive Association, and other intelligent/ Massive MIMO technology to enhance Hutchison Drei Austria automatic driving industry alliances. wireless spectrum efficiency and boost From the perspective of standards research, ZTE network capacity. In a commercial After ZTE exclusively reconstructed has worked jointly with many research institutes and network, the average single-carrier all mobile networks including 2G, 3G, universities worldwide to promote 5G development. peak rate of Pre5G Massive MIMO 4G and core networks for Hutchison They have completed core IPR preparation and validation exceeds 700 Mbps, increasing spectral Drei Austria (hereafter referred to as in many aspects, including the MUSA, high-frequency efficiency by six to eight times as Drei), Drei ranked first in Austria and channel model, and Massive MIMO technology. compared wtih that of existing 4G second among 10 operators in the The best way to predict the future is to create networks. Pre5G Massive MIMO uses German-speaking regions in the third- it. ZTE is willing to embrace the great 5G era with Qiu Peng beamforming technology to expand from party test organized by “CONNECT”, innovation, practice, collaboration, and win-win A technical exchange meeting TDD Product Manager, ZTE 2D to 3D coverage, and implements a famous communication magazine philosophy.