April 6, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: All Cloud Network Towards 5G (2½ min)
IT, cloud computing, and the Internet are reshaping the world. Video, cloud services and IoT are also revolutionizing our lifestyle. How can carriers quickly launch new services? How can they achieve business agility? How will they optimize cost structure? These are the three biggest concerns of carriers on the transformation path to All Cloud Networks.
During the process of full cloudification, carriers will have to cloudify equipment, networks, services and the whole operational system if they want to deliver real ROADS experience. Huawei launched its All Cloud strategy in order to help operators succeed in transformation.
All Cloud Network use the principles and technologies of the cloud to reconstructs carrier networks with pooled hardware resources, fully distributed software architecture, and full automation operations for more efficient utilization, more agile services and higher operational efficiency.
April 6, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: ROADS to New Growth (1½ min)
The future is filled with unlimited possibilities, we must find new growth and press forward. With every step, with every leap, we can reach for new horizons. Through openness and collaboration, we can create a greater digital ecosystem, with ROADS to new growth, together.
May 26, 2016: About Huawei Carrier Business [=Huawei ‘Classic’]
Huawei Carrier BG is committed to the pipe strategy, focused on delivering ICT infrastructure and opening up ICT capabilities. Huawei provides global operators with cutting-edge, end-to-end ICT solutions that help them develop their digital business and create all cloud networks.
By supporting carriers in their digital transformation, Huawei is proud to be a perfect strategic partner of operators. Huawei Carrier BG offers a complete range of products and solutions for fixed networks, wireless networks, cloud core networks, software, IT architecture, network energy, and network services. It helps operators deliver a ROADS (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY and Social) experience to telecom users.
In the spirit of openness, collaboration and shared success, Huawei Carrier BG hopes to work with operators and industry partners to construct healthy ecosystems and build open ROADS to a Better Connected World.
April 6, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: 4.5G is the bridge to 5G (4¼ min)
Peter Zhou, CMO of Huawei Wireless Product Line, explains the importance of 4.5G and why telcos need to deploy it to open up opportunities in video, household broadband access, and the digital transformation of vertical industries. He believes that telcos should incrementally introduce 5G tech like 4x4MIMO and Massive MIMO on 4.5G networks to prepare for 5G.
August 24, 2017, company press release: Huawei Marked as LTE Leader by Gartner Magic Quadrant
Building a Competitive Edge through 4.5G Evolution towards 5G
Huawei is a leader in the LTE market according to the newly-released Magic Quadrant for LTE Network Infrastructure1 by Gartner, a world leading advisory and research firm. Gartner evaluated the end-to-end (E2E) LTE infrastructure vendor’s completeness of vision and ability to execute in the report.
According to Gartner analysts, we believe Huawei outperforms other market players with its rapidly-expanding market share, large-scale commercial network deployment, and a comprehensive portfolio of innovative hardware and software products. Huawei’s LTE solution is growing increasingly popular, gaining recognition as a first choice for many leading global operators.
Huawei advocates the ‘4.5G Evolution, Road to 5G’ strategy, by supporting operators to implement cutting-edge technologies on existing 4.5G networks to achieve 5G-like experience, testing innovative services and incubating new business models. This helps operators to consolidate an advanced 5G business blueprint, to secure early mover advantage within the industry.
Future 5G networks will adopt cloud technologies for enhanced resource utilization and agile service provisioning. Huawei’s innovative CloudAIR [= Cloud-based Wireless Network] solution cloudifies wireless air interface resources to increase radio resource utilization and reduce the deployment period of new radio access technologies (RATs). Huawei CloudAIR GL spectrum sharing solution has contributed to the business success of operators such as Bharti India and True Thailand.
April 25, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: Cloud based Wireless Network [= CloudAIR] (3 min)
As the market stands today, different applications and scenarios have vastly different requirements for data rates (ranging from Kbps to Gbps) and latency (ranging from milliseconds to seconds). The network is also becoming more complicated due to more bands, RATs and sites. The service diversity and network complexity will raise the bar for network capabilities and operations.
In order to face this challenge, a modern mobile network needs unified cloud architecture to protect existing investment and for 5G evolution, on-demand experience and high efficient coordination if it hopes to achieve long-term development. And building a cloud-based network is the only way to make that happen.
CloudAIR is designed to better share air interface resources like spectrum, power, and channels – operators’ most valuable resources. They can then focus on improving efficiency, flexibly deploying a diverse range of services, and boosting user experience.
[PRESS RELEASE CONTINUED] Huawei takes the lead in deploying 4T4R/8T8R [the number of transceivers and receivers i.e. 4×4 MIMO / 8×8 MIMO], together with higher-order demodulation technology and carrier aggregation of multiple component carriers on 4G networks to achieve 5G-like data rate in the pre-5G era. By June 2017, Huawei had provided commercial 4T4R products for more than 110 global operators. For 8T8R, Huawei launched the world’s first FDD 8T8R networks for VIVA Kuwait, and Europe’s first FDD 8T8R networks for T-Mobile Netherlands. The 8T8R configuration increased the user rate by 85% and reduced TCO by 40% compared with the 4T4R approach. Huawei also tested commercial 32T32R Massive MIMO on China Unicom‘s FDD 20 MHz networks and the data rate reached 593 Mbps, such verification has greatly expedited the commercialization of Massive MIMO.
April 24, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: 4.5G Evolution: Stephane Teral on 4×4 MIMO and Massive MIMO (3½ min)
The advanced MIMO technologies are the most important technology towards 4.5G Evolution. Stephane Teral, Senior Research Director & Advisor from IHS Markit, explain the benefit of MIMO technology and propose to use 4×4 MIMO and Massive MIMO in different bands to achieve various targets in 4.5G.
[PRESS RELEASE CONTINUED] New services such as mobile video, wireless home broadband (WTTx), Internet of Things (IoT), and LTE integrated Trunked Radio (LiTRA) are among Huawei’s efforts in helping operators extend commercial boundaries, innovate business models, construct a favorable ecosystem, and pursue an early start in exploring the 5G blue ocean.
April 13, 2017, Huawei Carrier Business YouTube channel: WTTx, Instant Fiber Opens A New Era (3¾ min)
WTTx (Wireless to the x) is a Huawei wireless broadband access solution to provide broadband services for the household market. This solution adopts 4G and 4.5G technologies providing fiber-like household broadband access to resolve last mile access problems encountered in traditional broadband solutions and allow more households to enjoy broadband services. At the same time, WTTx boasts wide coverage, fast deployment, low costs, and extreme user experience. This allows mobile operators to shorten their network deployment period, save network deployment costs, and shorten ROI. WTTx has become the first step into the household broadband market for mobile operators.
Nov 21, 2016, Chen Xi YouTube channel: Huawei LiTRA Solution (LTE integrated Trunked Radio Access) (3 min)
Emergency services have traditionally used private mobile radio systems, such as Tetra and P25, to handle two-way communications requirements. However, these systems no longer meet growing public safety requirements [PMR] around network coverage, service experience, or maintenance costs due to limited transmission speeds, dispatch capabilities and interoperability problems between different vendors.
While PMR only supports narrowband voice and SMS services, LTE integrated Trunked Radio Access (LiTRA) provides broadband and group communication services such as Push-to-video, Video surveillance, Location-based dispatch and Push-to-talk (PTT). These mission-critical services enhance efficiencies and capabilities across police forces, fire departments and ambulance services, to help safeguard our cities.
[PRESS RELEASE CONTINUED] Today, Huawei provides wireless network solutions and services to more than 500 operators in both emerging market and developed countries, covering over two billion users. As of June 2017, Huawei ranks first in the telecom industry with the construction of over 290 LTE commercial networks, serving over 100 capital cities worldwide. Huawei has been awarded 90 4.5G commercial contracts and this number is estimated to hit 120 by the end of 2017.
Operators worldwide are adopting the ‘4.5G Evolution, Road to 5G’ strategy by introducing 5G technologies, further enhancing 4.5G network capabilities, trialing 5G services and hatching new business models to realize 5G-like experience. Such an approach helps operators build competitiveness for the 5G network ahead of time and ensure future business success.
Source: 1Gartner “Magic Quadrant for LTE Network Infrastructure” Kosei Takiishi et al, 31 July 2017
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Oct 16, 2016, IHS Markit Technology YouTube channel: From Centralized RAN to Cloud RAN (1 hour 2 min)
OVERVIEW
The move from centralized to virtual radio access networks (RANs) is already happening, with baseband unit (BBU) virtualization moving many functions to software, paving the way for 5G and pre-5G LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). This webinar explores the market drivers and the technical challenges of the RAN transformation from fiber to the antenna (FTTA) to centralized RAN (C-RAN) and virtual RAN, the state of virtualized baseband unit (vBBU), the long-term evolution of fronthaul beyond the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) to packet-based transport, and testing requirements at the optical and protocol layers.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Mobile operators, transmission network operators, optical and mobile network equipment vendors. Financial analysts and the media are also encouraged to attend.
KEY TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
-5G characteristics and network drivers
-Fronthaul architectures evolving from FTTA to centralized RAN to cloud RAN
-Planning and performance requirements for cloud RAN
-Integrating and testing fronthaul connectivity in backhaul/transport networks
-Guidelines for optical testing in C-RAN and beyond
-Answers to audience questions during live Q&A
SPEAKERS
-Richard Webb, Research Director, Mobile Backhaul and Small Cells, IHS
-Yvon Rouault, Advisor, CTO Office, EXFO [presents itself as a “leader in optical and high-speed transport testing”]
-Jean-Sebastien Tasse, Product Line Manager, Optical Business Unit, EXFO
-Allen Tatara, Manager, Webinar Events, IHS (Moderator)
July 5, 2016, TIA NOW YouTube channel: The Road from 4G to 5G (12 min)
Dr. Wen Tong, CTO of Huawei Wireless, tells TIA NOW the importance of working with other vertical industries to realize the potential of 5G technologies. Dr. Tong states the most important differentiators between the roll-out of 4G and 5G technologies.
April 12, 2016, company press release: CloudRAN: Reconstructing the Radio Network with Cloud
During Huawei’s Global Analyst Summit 2016, Huawei shared its latest strategy for the radio access network: CloudRAN. Huawei CloudRAN embraces the benefits of Cloud to enable operators to transform their network to be better equipped in the digital age.
Current network capabilities cannot fulfill present and future mobile connectivity requirements, the need for long-term co-existence of multiple technologies, new services, and business models will drive an evolution of the network architecture. There are three elements to this. First, the network architecture needs to become increasingly unified to support the long term carrying of diverse access technologies, such as 3G, 4G, 4.5G and 5G. This unification will also include the coexistence of these technologies, side by side with radio technologies in unlicensed spectrum, such as WiFi. Second, this unified network architecture is required to support an array of services with different performance requirements on data rate, connectivity, and latency in the mobile network. Third, fast and flexible capacity expansion on this unified network architecture is required for new business models to achieve a fast delivery for different end users. This network unification is made possible by Huawei CloudRAN.
“During the next five years the wireless industry will experience a change in basic inter-connectivity capabilities, that will bring benefits to other industries.” said Yang Chaobin, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Wireless Network Business Unit, “This change will be supported by CloudRAN, a new network architecture with full flexibility from topology to resource distribution that can meet the multiple requirements of things to things, people to things, and people to people communication. CloudRAN represents a jump forward in the RAN’s ability from single connectivity and single resource scheduling to multiple connectivity and resource slicing for a diversity of services and multiple users.”
Cloud architecture supports flexible network for coexistence of multiple technologies
Before 5G arrives supporting network architecture, CloudRAN, needs to be deployed that can also support existing legacy networks. By introducing new network elements, CloudRAN will become a leading mainstream network architecture that can deliver function virtualization, cloud based resourcing, and flexible coordination for future needs while also supporting existing infrastructure.
Multiple connectivity for resource convergence to enable inspiring experiences
CloudRAN delivers multiple connectivity as an innate ability inside the network; this is a major RAN improvement. This brings big benefits to the end user such as an increase in speed. Another element of CloudRAN is its ability to carry various services with different QoS requirements on the same network using network slicing. Network slicing of multiple services is an essential element of the 5G network to address the challenge brought by different application and industry requirements.
March 28, 2016, USHuawei YouTube channel: Demo: Network Slicing and end-to-end ICN [Information-Centric Networking] Service Orchestration for Future Applications (12¾ min) by Ravindran Ravi(shankar), Senior Staff Researcher (now Principal Researcher), Huawei Research in US
Abstract: 5G accommodates several heterogeneous applications which demand stringent requirements in terms of latency bandwidth, and significantly better network level mobility, security, and resiliency. ICN is a good network architecture for 5G to meet these requirements through its features like in-network mobility, storage, computing, and security. Network slicing in 5G has been proposed to allow end-to-end service slices to co-exist over a programmable transport, compute, and storage infrastructure. ICN can be realized in such a framework to deliver heterogeneous services with top-down application-driven networking. This demo focuses on creating a video conferencing slice over ICN using well known open source frameworks like OpenStack and ONOS. These stacks have been extended for ICN for end-to-end service orchestration, and handling conference participants in a dynamic manner. The video conferencing service takes advantage of ICN’s network layer multicasting capability, thus addressing the concern of bandwidth scalability for such applications.
[PRESS RELEASE CONTINUED] Real-time and non-real-time resource layers for balanced distribution and centralization
CloudRAN uses real-time and non-real-time layers to schedule resources for different service requirements. On the real-time layer, deployment is close to the end user for accurate and efficient resource management on the air interface. On the non-real-time layer, complicated management units for time, frequency, and spacing based on large area are deployed in a centralized manner to support coordination between multiple technologies and inter-node scheduling. The network capabilities are deployed based on demand to convergence nodes in the radio, backbone, and core network, maximizing efficiency and capability.
Mr. Yang continued, “Cloud based solutions, such as CloudRAN, will become the next standard of deployment for the radio network architecture. Reconstruction through cloud is necessary not only for sites, but also for the most critical radio access network architecture to meet future needs.
March 10, 2017, dan thompson vimeo channel: BT & Huawei – 5G Network Slicing (4 min)
In January & February of 2017, I worked with Fides Media on a project in collaboration with BT & Huawei, who were wanting to showcase the strengths of ‘5G Network Slicing’, a way of carving out specific ‘slices’ of an IP-based network for dedicated purposes and to support services delivered over 5G networks when they become available. … They showed this video at MWC 2017 in Barcelona and also released it with an accompanying press release on their BTPLC.com website. The news was picked up by many other websites within a couple of hours of its release which was exciting too! You can see this project on my website: danthompson.tv/bt-huawei-5G-network-slicing
Feb 22, 2017, company press release: BT and Huawei Announce Research into 5G Network Slicing
BT and Huawei today announced new research into how ‘network slicing’ – a method of carving out specific ‘slices’ of an IP-based network for dedicated purposes – may be used to support services delivered over tomorrow’s 5G networks.
Today’s announcement builds on the wide-ranging 5G collaboration agreement signed by the two companies in December, and marks the first area of specific research activity for the team, based at the BT Labs in Adastral Park near Ipswich, and in other locations across the UK.
Network slicing allows specific ‘slices’ within an IP-based network to be ring-fenced for particular activities. This allows individual services to remain unaffected by bandwidth demands on the network as a whole, and to have specific policies applied to the traffic being carried over that slice – especially relevant when those services are mission-critical.
For example, in a live music event, specific 5G slices could be created for outside broadcast use, ensuring that the live TV feed from the event remains unaffected, even as thousands of people in the concert start to stream videos to friends and family over the network.
New 5G slices can also be ‘spun up’ in an agile way according to customer needs. In the above scenario, in the event of an emergency in the crowd, a new slice could be created which is dedicated to the safety control teams, allowing them to command a drone, and gain an aerial view of the incident.
Howard Watson, CEO of Technology, Service & Operations at BT said: “Customers are increasingly demanding converged networks that deliver a mix of flexibility, reliability and optimisation. It’s our role to ensure that our fixed and mobile networks deliver the best possible experience for customers regardless of the demands placed on them.
That’s why we’re excited about the possibilities of this stream of research with Huawei, and the added flexibility network slicing may offer, allowing us to better serve specific customer needs as we move towards a 5G world.”
Yang Chaobin, President of 5G Product Line from Huawei said: “There are two different ways to realize the digitalization of society, the first one is to have dedicated infrastructure for different requirements, the second one is to have a common infrastructure serving different vertical industries, I believe the latter, which uses network slicing, will be critical to effective delivery of services and improved efficiency. Huawei is very pleased to be working with BT on investigating how to implement network slicing technologies in the UK.”
BT and Huawei’s research in this area will be showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on the Huawei stand. To view an animated demonstration of 5G network slicing in action, please go to:http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Innovationnews/5Gnetwork/index.htm.
June 19, 2017, USHuawei YouTube channel: Light Reading’s BCE 2017 — Realizing ICN as a Network Slice for Mobile Data Distribution (6¼ min)
Network Slicing in 5G allow the potential introduction of new network architectures — including Information-centric Networks (ICN) as a slice, managed over a shared pool of compute, storage and bandwidth resource. Services over an ICN slice can benefit from many architectural features such as Name Based Networking, Security, Multicasting, Multi-homing, Mobility, Caching, and In-network Computing. With the current move towards Application defined or Service Centric Networking, ICN offers very rich naming abstractions common to both the application and the network itself. This allows for efficient delivery of services while still offering significant bandwidth efficiency, low latency service delivery and support Ad hoc communication catering to vehicular scenarios.
Information-centric networking (Wikipedia as of Oct 28, 2017)
Information-centric networking (ICN) is an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure away from a host-centric paradigm based on perpetual connectivity and the end-to-end principle, to a network architecture in which the focal point is “named information” (or content or data). In this paradigm, connectivity may well be intermittent, end-host and in-network storage can be capitalized upon transparently, as bits in the network and on data storage devices have exactly the same value, mobility and multi access are the norm and anycast, multicast, and broadcast are natively supported. Data becomes independent from location, application, storage, and means of transportation, enabling in-network caching and replication. The expected benefits are improved efficiency, better scalability with respect to information/bandwidth demand and better robustness in challenging communication scenarios.[1]
Research Projects
US based
Content centric networking
Named data networking
DONA
Europe based
4WARD
COAST
COMBO
COMET
CONVERGENCE
GreenICN
NetInf
POINT
PSIRP
PURSUIT
SAIL
NFN
UMOBILE
Content centric networking (Wikipedia as of Oct 28, 2017)
In contrast to IP-based, host-oriented, Internet architecture, content centric networking (CCN) emphasizes content by making it directly addressable and routable. Endpoints communicate based on named data instead of IP addresses. CCN is characterized by the basic exchange of content request messages (called “Interests”) and content return messages (called “Content Objects”). It is considered an information-centric networking (ICN) architecture.
The goals of CCN are to provide a more secure, flexible and scalable network thereby addressing the Internet’s modern-day requirements for secure content distribution on a massive scale to a diverse set of end devices. CCN embodies a security model that explicitly secures individual pieces of content rather than securing the connection or “pipe”. It provides flexibility by using names instead of IP addresses. Additionally, named and secured content resides in distributed caches automatically populated on demand or selectively pre-populated. When requested by name, CCN delivers named content to the user from the nearest cache, traversing fewer network hops, eliminating redundant requests, and consuming less resources overall. CCN began as a research project at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 2007. The first software release (CCNx 0.1) was made available in 2009.[1] There are a number of derivative and related buzzwords, such as named data networking. CCN Technology and its open source code base has been acquired by Cisco in February 2017[2]
Contents
1History
2Specification
3Software
4Motivation and benefits
5Basic concepts
6CCNx releases
6.1CCNx 0.x
6.2CCNx 1.x
7Derivative works
8Related Projects
9See also
10References
…
Named data networking (Wikipedia as of Oct 28, 2017)
Named Data Networking (NDN) (related to Content-Centric Networking (CCN), content-based networking, data-oriented networking or information-centric networking) is a Future Internet architecture inspired by years of empirical research into network usage and a growing awareness of unsolved problems in contemporary internet architectures like IP.[1][2] NDN has its roots in an earlier project, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), which Van Jacobson first publicly presented in 2006. The NDN project is investigating Jacobson’s proposed evolution from today’s host-centric network architecture IP to a data-centric network architecture (NDN). The belief is that this conceptually simple shift will have far-reaching implications for how people design, develop, deploy, and use networks and applications.[3]
Its premise is that the Internet is primarily used as an information distribution network, which is not a good match for IP, and that the future Internet’s “thin waist” should be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts. The underlying principle is that a communication network should allow a user to focus on the data he or she needs, named content, rather than having to reference a specific, physical location where that data is to be retrieved from, named hosts. The motivation for this is derived from the fact that the vast majority of current Internet usage (a “high 90% level of traffic”) consists of data being disseminated from a source to a number of users.[4] Named-data networking comes with potential for a wide range of benefits such as content caching to reduce congestion and improve delivery speed, simpler configuration of network devices, and building security into the network at the data level.
Contents
1Background
2History
2.1Early research
2.2Current State
3Key Architectural Principles
4Architecture Overview
4.1Types of Packets
4.2Router Architecture
5Names
5.1Design
5.2Structure
5.3Specifying a Name
5.4Namespaces
6Routing
6.1Solutions to IP Issues
6.2Protocols
6.3PIT State
6.4Interest
7Security
7.1Overview
7.2Application Security
7.3Routing Security
8See also
9Further reading
10References
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April 15, 2017, RichReport YouTube channel: In-Network Computing (39 min)
In this video from Switzerland HPC Conference, Richard Graham from Mellanox presents: In-Network Computing.
“The latest revolution in HPC is the move to a co-design architecture, a collaborative effort among industry, academia, and manufacturers to reach Exascale performance by taking a holistic system-level approach to fundamental performance improvements. Co-design architecture exploits system efficiency and optimizes performance by creating synergies between the hardware and the software.
Co-design recognizes that the CPU has reached the limits of its scalability, and offers an intelligent network as the new “co-processor” to share the responsibility for handling and accelerating application workloads. By placing data-related algorithms on an intelligent network, we can dramatically improve the data center and applications performance.”
Dr. Richard Graham is an Architect at Mellanox Technologies, Inc. His primary focus is on the High Performance Computing market, working on OFED and communication middleware architecture issues, as they relate to extreme-scale computing. Prior to moving to Mellanox, Rich spent thirteen years at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in computer science technical and administrative roles, with a technical focus on communication libraries and application analysis tools. He is cofounder of the Open MPI collaboration, was chairman of the MPI 3.0 standardization efforts.
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