Huawei Shares Vision of All-IP Mobile Broadband Evolution at its Asia Pacific CTO Forum 2009
Event draws over 60 leading Asian telecom operators for discussion on key industry challenges.
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, discussed its views on the future of mobile broadband at the third annual Huawei Asia Pacific CTO Forum in Hong Kong. More than 150 senior executives representing more than 60 telecom operators from around the region participated and engaged in collaborative discussion on how to address pressing industry challenges, with a focus on the evolution of mobile broadband.
Huawei led this discussion, providing new insights on its forecasts for the future development of mobile broadband, as well as working with operators to determine how they can best leverage the rapid growth of this sector. Huawei predicts that by 2013, the number of mobile broadband subscribers will exceed 2 billion, including 1.6 billion new subscribers, representing growth of more than 80 percent. However, according to Informa Telecoms & Media, global mobile data network traffic will grow by 1,587 percent between 2008 and 2013, while revenue in this space will grow by only 83 percent over the same period. To offset this imbalance, operators will need to adopt evolutionary technological solutions to decrease their cost per megabit and ensure a smooth transition to a next-generation network. Towards this end, Huawei identified increasing network efficiency and moving to a converged network as the key drivers and differentiators for operator success in mobile broadband.
Victor Wang, Huawei Asia Pacific President, commented that while HSPA technology has thus far been a major enabler for mobile broadband, the trend now is firmly shifting towards LTE and LTE Advanced. "The majority of the world' s networks remain incapable of smooth software migration to LTE," he said. "Huawei expects 2G, 3G, and 4G networks to coexist for the foreseeable future. Technology can be revolutionized, but networks must evolve over time. In this case, what operators need is not a vertically stacked standard tower, but a horizontally converged network in which voice and data demand from users can be converged into one network element and evolved separately into LTE. That is why we have developed our core intelligent mobile broadband network solutions like SingleRAN, IPTime mobile Backhaul solutions, and IPN (Intelligent Packet Networks), that can enable our customers to effectively manage network evolution and fully capitalize on the growth of this sector."
Huawei is currently at the forefront of the industry in LTE and LTE Advanced. As of Q3 09, Huawei is cooperating on LTE development with over 20 leading operators including TeliaSonera, Vodafone, China Mobile, Telenor and T-Mobile. In January of 2009, Huawei was awarded the world' s first LTE commercial contract by TeliaSonera. In addition, Huawei is the first vendor to realize UMTS and LTE multimode services, as well as CDMA and LTE multimode service and demonstration on one product platform in 2008.
In 2009, Huawei released the industry's first LTE FDD and TD-LTE integrated solution, which greatly accelerates the commercialization of LTE. "Based on the wealth of high potential value TDD spectrum resources, Huawei believes that LTE TDD is just as significant as LTE FDD," said Wan Biao, President of Huawei Wireless Product Line.
In the Asia Pacific region, Huawei has recently launched an LTE lab in Tokyo, Japan, serving as an incubator for LTE technologies and a training facility for the implementation and commercialization of next-generation wireless technologies.
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, discussed its views on the future of mobile broadband at the third annual Huawei Asia Pacific CTO Forum in Hong Kong. More than 150 senior executives representing more than 60 telecom operators from around the region participated and engaged in collaborative discussion on how to address pressing industry challenges, with a focus on the evolution of mobile broadband.
Huawei led this discussion, providing new insights on its forecasts for the future development of mobile broadband, as well as working with operators to determine how they can best leverage the rapid growth of this sector. Huawei predicts that by 2013, the number of mobile broadband subscribers will exceed 2 billion, including 1.6 billion new subscribers, representing growth of more than 80 percent. However, according to Informa Telecoms & Media, global mobile data network traffic will grow by 1,587 percent between 2008 and 2013, while revenue in this space will grow by only 83 percent over the same period. To offset this imbalance, operators will need to adopt evolutionary technological solutions to decrease their cost per megabit and ensure a smooth transition to a next-generation network. Towards this end, Huawei identified increasing network efficiency and moving to a converged network as the key drivers and differentiators for operator success in mobile broadband.
Victor Wang, Huawei Asia Pacific President, commented that while HSPA technology has thus far been a major enabler for mobile broadband, the trend now is firmly shifting towards LTE and LTE Advanced. "The majority of the world' s networks remain incapable of smooth software migration to LTE," he said. "Huawei expects 2G, 3G, and 4G networks to coexist for the foreseeable future. Technology can be revolutionized, but networks must evolve over time. In this case, what operators need is not a vertically stacked standard tower, but a horizontally converged network in which voice and data demand from users can be converged into one network element and evolved separately into LTE. That is why we have developed our core intelligent mobile broadband network solutions like SingleRAN, IPTime mobile Backhaul solutions, and IPN (Intelligent Packet Networks), that can enable our customers to effectively manage network evolution and fully capitalize on the growth of this sector."
Huawei is currently at the forefront of the industry in LTE and LTE Advanced. As of Q3 09, Huawei is cooperating on LTE development with over 20 leading operators including TeliaSonera, Vodafone, China Mobile, Telenor and T-Mobile. In January of 2009, Huawei was awarded the world' s first LTE commercial contract by TeliaSonera. In addition, Huawei is the first vendor to realize UMTS and LTE multimode services, as well as CDMA and LTE multimode service and demonstration on one product platform in 2008.
In 2009, Huawei released the industry's first LTE FDD and TD-LTE integrated solution, which greatly accelerates the commercialization of LTE. "Based on the wealth of high potential value TDD spectrum resources, Huawei believes that LTE TDD is just as significant as LTE FDD," said Wan Biao, President of Huawei Wireless Product Line.
In the Asia Pacific region, Huawei has recently launched an LTE lab in Tokyo, Japan, serving as an incubator for LTE technologies and a training facility for the implementation and commercialization of next-generation wireless technologies.
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