At
the recent 2017 Global Future Network Development Summit held in Nanjing,
China, Ruan Tao, Principal NFV Architect of Huawei Packet Core Network Product Line,
gave a keynote speech about "New Architecture, New Business, Huawei SOC
Building 5G Core Networks That Contribute to Business Success". Ruan
elaborated on how Service Oriented Core (SOC), Huawei's 5G Core Network
solution, helps operators create brand-new network architectures and business
models to open to new market possibilities and make a successful digital
transformation.
Ruan
said, global operators are now actively looking to make a digital transformation to
divert profit sources from volume to digitization and then to information. New
techniques, such as SDN, NFV, and MEC, are used to construct a next-generation
5G network, leading to new business models like B2B, B2B2C, and B2V. This
brings new opportunities and challenges to carriers and the industry as a
whole. 5G networks need a strong Core Network to
support the ever-changing services in the future.SOC enabling all access and
all services arises as the times require.
SOC Helping Operators Build
5G Core Networks That Enable All Access and All Services
For operators, SOC enables all access and
implements all 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile access modes and other access modes, such as
xDSL, Wi-Fi, and LPWAN access, through one Core Network, thereby helping
operators maximize the ROI and expand the scale of connections.
In addition, SOC uses the Cloud Native
architecture to provide network slices meeting diversified and differentiated
service requirements through one physical network. For example, smart
environment monitoring needs low power consumption with high connection density,
AR/VR services require high bandwidths, and self-driving demands extremely low
latency. SOC helps explore vertical industry markets and boosts service
innovation to gain future-oriented business success.
SOC Taking New 5G Services
from Concept to Reality
Huawei has been working with global leading
operators to put SOC-based innovation into practice and accelerate the idea-to-reality
progress of new services.
At Mobile World Congress 2016, Huawei and
China Mobile jointly demonstrated the functions, design, and business logic of
network slices, and how operators use SOC-based network slices to address
differentiated network requirements by a large number of applications in the
future.
At this year's Mobile World Congress, Huawei and Vodafone
demonstrated SOC-based smart driving, and Huawei and Deutsche Telekom presented
three end-to-end 5G-oriented SOC-based network slices for commercial use: xMBB
slice for AR/VR services, GLA slice for IoV and industrial control, and FMC
slice for smooth video service experience.
In the future, Huawei will continue to actively
invest in innovating 5G Core Network technology, services, and business models
into the future. Huawei will also help build a new 5G ecosystem, promote 5G
industry development, and make a better connected world with
industry partners.
