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Huawei Releases Data Center 2030, Leading Innovation and Development

of New Data Centers

The Data Center 2030 report was released Center 2030. With a focus on the core of data centers based on 22 indicators and
by Huawei at HUAWEI CONNECT 2023. conflict between computing power forecast data. Many prominent guests
Aiming to guide the innovative development requirements and resource constraints, were invited to deliver speeches at the
of the industry, the report shares insights Data Center 2030 describes five future event. Joe Weinman, a digital strategist, He
into the future of data centers, defines key scenarios that will affect data center Baohong, director of the Cloud Computing
features involved, and proposes a new development over the next decade, and and Big Data Research Institute of the
reference architecture. With the intelligent proposes an innovative integration of China Academy of Information and
era around the corner, computing power energy, computing, transmission, data, Communications Technology (CAICT), and
has become the top requirement and data and operation efficiency. The report Hui Tao, director of Huawei ICT Strategy &
centers the key infrastructure. Over the past defines for the first time in the industry Planning and Business Development Dept,
three years, Huawei communicated with six key technical features of future data all shared their ideas and practices with
more than a hundred scholars, customers, centers, and systematically explains reference to the future of data centers.
partners, and research institutes regarding the development challenges as well as Huawei looks forward to working with
the future of data centers, and has held breakthrough directions for cloud service, customers and partners around the world
over 50 workshops. The collective wisdom computing, storage, network, and energy to promote the high-quality development
of industry experts both in and outside technologies involved in data centers. Data of global data center infrastructure and
Huawei on the matter was then condensed Center 2030 also proposes a reference contribute to the intelligent transformation
into the report. Michael Ma, Vice President architecture for new data centers and across industries.
of Huawei and President of the ICT Product quantitatively predicts the future prospects
Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions Dept, released
the Data Center 2030 report on behalf of
Huawei and delivered a keynote speech
entitled "Exploring the Future of Data
Centers to Lead the Intelligent Era". Mr.
Ma pointed out that the computing power
requirements are expected to grow so fast
they will outpace even Moore's Law while
at the same time the growth of computing
power is subject to limited resources. To
cope with this contradiction, continuous
innovation to improve efficiency will
become the core direction of data centers
in the future. The industry will embrace
a new round of transformation. Michael
Ma, Vice President of Huawei and
President of the ICT Product Portfolio
Mgmt & Solutions Dept, released Data

Nokia Supports Globe Telecom’s 4G/5G Expansion
with IPAA+ Rollout

In a press release, Nokia confirmed it antenna including the 2.6GHz spectrum networks through just a simple antenna
is deploying its latest generation of band. Further, the platform can also support swap’. The two companies successfully
Interleaved Passive Active Antennas other bands, which it claims means Globe’s trialed a Globe Telecom-specific variant of
(IPAA+) to support Globe Telecom’s efforts investments ‘are protected’ allowing the the IPAA+ in Tantangan, South Cotabato in
to expand its 4G and 5G coverage across MNO to accelerate and simplify its 4G/5G the island of Mindanao, making Globe the
the southern islands of the Philippines. rollouts going forward. Nokia’s new IPAA+ first operator in the world to successfully
The Finnish vendor notes that IPAA+ is is similar in size to a standard multiband test the 2.6GHz IPAA+ variant, the vendor
a modular design and supports all 5G antenna, making it ‘easier and faster said.
frequency bands in a single compact for service providers to deploy their 5G
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