China Unicom and Huawei Sign a Joint Innovation Agreement on 5G Network Slicing
China Unicom and Huawei
have signed a joint innovation agreement on 5G network slicing. The
partners plan to jointly carry out research, demonstration, and
application of 5G network slicing, develop key technologies and
solutions for China Unicom's 5G network slicing services and
applications, jointly promote industry chain development, and apply
slices to more vertical industry markets, such as VR/AR games,
industrial control, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and the Internet of
Things (IoT).
Zhang Yong, President of China Unicom Network Technology Research
Institute, and He Weijie, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network
Product Line, signed the agreement and discussed and planned for the
implementation of future innovation cooperation between the two parties.
Huawei's concepts of slice as a service and slice as a product, have
played a major role in shaping the 5G business model. With its agile
deployment, security isolation, high reliability, and automatic
management, slices help operators expand the vertical industry market in
the 5G era and fully exploit the potential of their networks.
Zhang Yong, President of China Unicom Network Technology Research
Institute, said: "Network slicing is a key native capability of 5G,
which can maximize the efficiency of communications networks and reduce
network construction and O&M costs. In the 5G era, the concepts of
slice as a capability and slice as a product have become an industry
consensus. China Unicom will demonstrate the multi-scenario slicing
service in vertical industries and deepen the integration with the
industry to facilitate digitalization in China.
“We hope that both parties can focus efforts on terminals, chips,
networks, and vertical industries, accelerate the slice demonstration
and application, and jointly build a new 5G slicing ecosystem in 2018
and 2019, for the purpose of formulating the 5G blueprint, creating
completely new markets for 5G, and achieving a win-win through 5G
network deployment," continued Zhang Yong.
He Weijie, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line,
said: "As a key anchor for differentiated network experience and
operation, the core network plays a more important role in the 5G
network. Huawei’s 5G core network uses the microservice architecture to
implement on-demand deployment of 5G slices, agile operation, and SLA
assurance. We hope to cooperate with China Unicom to explore new
business models based on slices and explore the new business value."
2018 will be the year of 5G commercial use. 5G will be put into
commercial use in several cities in China. Multiple operators outside
China are also preparing for pilots before commercial use. Network
slicing is the key innovation and application of 5G networks. With 5G
commercial use, Huawei will create completely new (blue ocean) markets
for operators.
Source: Huawei media announcement
