New Architecture, New Business - Huawei SOC Building 5G Core Networks That Contribute to Business Success

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.