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Huawei and Partners Launch the First Batch of 5GtoB Ecosystem

At the "5G for Good, Innovate for New terminals for industrial applications have and application promotion together
Value" summit, Huawei and 5G industrial advanced to the project testing phase. with partners. Our vision is to enable
partners jointly launched the first batch of Over 100 types of 5G industry terminals the ecosystem to thrive, explore new
5G industrial applications. This initiative are expected to be launched this year. fields, and create new value," said Mr. Xu
accelerates the development of 5G, To better support the incubation of the Weizhong, Wireless Network Chief Strategy
marking the maturity of the 5G industry industry ecosystem, Huawei will open up Officer of Huawei. 5G drives the digital
ecosystem. Around 50 partners joined its 5GtoB lab, which will be predominantly transformation of industries, facilitating
the ecosystem so far, including those used for testing the capabilities of 5G the adaption of 5G network capabilities
specialized in both industry and general vertical industry terminals. Huawei aims (from eMBB to URLLC to mMTC) to achieve
equipment domains. The scope spans to build a robust platform for developing scaled commercialization of industrial
multiple verticals, including 5G industrial industrial applications in collaboration applications. We look forward to working
communication modules and terminals, with industry organizations, and to with industry partners to advance 5G
5G antennas, smart manufacturing, promote industry chain development across industries toward bigger success.
smart logistics, smart coal mining, smart
healthcare, new media live broadcast,
smart city, and smart power grid. "Year
2020 will see scaled global commercial
rollout of 5G and nation-wide deployment
in China. The era of rapid 5G development
has come. An essential part of the digital
foundation, 5G will drive the upgrade in
five industries: connectivity, AI, cloud,
computing, and industrial applications.
5G is set to realize digital transformation
across industries to trigger a new round of
high-speed development. With the growing
maturity of the 5G industry ecosystem,
5G module shipment has started on a
massive scale. After half a year of R&D
conducted by industry equipment and
module vendors, a large number of 5G

Huawei Reiterates Its Commitment to Advancing 5G in the Middle East

Huawei and China Telecom Shenzhen 5G City initiative. The coordination of TDD standalone (SA) networking mode. The
jointly launched the world's first pilot site and FDD reflects a new trend in 5G network results of the test showed that the average
that binds 5G Super Uplink and downlink construction. By pooling both Super Uplink uplink rate reached 470 Mbps and the
carrier aggregation (CA). This pilot and downlink CA, 5G networks leverage the average downlink rate 2.43 Gbps, which
innovatively leverages Super Uplink to complementary advantages between 5G are approximately 1.3 times and double
maximize uplink coverage and experience, high bands and low bands as well as the that with a single 100 MHz bandwidth,
as well as fully utilizes downlink dual-carrier aggregation in both the time and frequency respectively. 5G Super Uplink has notable
CA to deliver optimal user experience. This domains. This will further provide 5G advantages over uplink CA. Super Uplink
is a new breakthrough following China networks with a higher bandwidth, wider enables integrated uplink scheduling
Telecom and Huawei's joint commercial coverage, and lower latency, which between two uplink carriers in one cell. This
adoption of Super Uplink. The success are urgently required to expand 5G's scheduling mechanism is more efficient
of this pilot shows that the advantages applications across 5G vertical industries. than uplink CA implemented between two
of China Telecom and China Unicom This will also enable 5G cells to support a cells. In addition, uplink and downlink
sharing 5G networks, once seen only in bandwidth of up to 200 MHz, ensuring a bands are decoupled, enabling downlink
technical solutions, are already available premium downlink experience in network carriers to be flexibly added to adapt to
on commercial networks. It also marks sharing use cases. This pilot site uses 200 data traffic requirements. For example,
a major milestone in the construction of MHz 3.5 GHz TDD spectrum and 20 MHz CA can be disabled or implemented within
5G best-experience networks and a great 2.1 GHz FDD spectrum in the uplink. Single- one band or between two bands. As
achievement for China Telecom Shenzhen's user concurrent tests were completed in uplink CA depends on downlink CA and

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