Huawei Launches Full Range of 5G End-to-End Product Solutions

Huawei Launches Full Range of 5G End-to-End
Product Solutions

SINGAPORE, 27
FEBRUARY 2018 – At today’s World
Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Yang Chaobin, President
of Huawei 5G Product Line, unveiled a full range of end-to-end (E2E)
3GPP-compliant 5G product solutions. This release covers the core network, the
bearer network, base station, and terminals. Huawei’s 5G product solutions are
entirely based on 3GPP standards, with full range, full scenario, and all-cloud
being the defining characteristics. The featured products are also the only
available options within the industry to provide 5G E2E capabilities.

5G Base Station: Various forms to suit the deployment
requirements in all scenarios and offer ubiquitous xGbps user experience

The first wave of 5G deployment will take place in buildings and
densely populated urban areas. Diverse site forms are therefore required to
accommodate the needs of complex deployment scenarios, offering continuous
coverage and fulfill capacity requirements of indoor and outdoor hotspots.
Huawei’s newly released full range of 5G product solutions support millimeter
wave (mmWave), C-band, and all Sub-3 GHz frequency bands. These products also
cover all site forms including tower sites, pole sites, and small cells.

Huawei launched the C-band 64T64R and 32T32R Massive MIMO AAUs
to deliver ubiquitous Gbps experience. These AAUs support 200 MHz large
bandwidth and 3D beamforming to cover buildings, offer uniform coverage, and
meet the demands of various other scenarios. Coverage can be flexibly adjusted
to optimize the experience for users at the near points and far points, and
generate a 20 or 30 times increase in network capacity. mmWave products are
suited to supporting 1 GHz bandwidth. The equivalent isotropically radiated
power (EIRP) of Antenna ports reaches 65 dBm, ranking first within the
industry.

Huawei wireless products boast an integrated, compact, and
lightweight design. These features greatly relax the requirements on the
antenna installation platform while reducing engineering complexity. All
products support diverse scenarios in centralized radio access network (C-RAN)
and distributed radio access network (D-RAN) deployment mode. The optical
interface speed is less than 25 Gbps, which is ideal for large-scale 5G
deployment.

In addition, the newly released compact 5G Massive MIMO products
working in the C-band and mmWave allow for deployment on street lamp poles to fill coverage holes
and boost hotspot capacity. The 5G LampSite is backwards-compatible with 4G.
Existing CAT6A network cables or fiber optic cables can be used to achieve
indoor 4G and 5G co-deployment with zero cable adjustment or site addition.

In the 5G era, wireless sites will be
deployed in hybrid D-RAN and C-RAN networking scenarios. Huawei launched
BBU5900 and CBU5900 to suit distributed and centralized sites, respectively.
BBU5900 is the most highly integrated site solution currently available in the
industry. It supports all RATs (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G) and all frequency bands,
and offers 50 Gbps backhaul capability to meet 5G services’ long-term
development needs. CBU5900 features the centralized deployment of a large
number of baseband units to support the C-RAN architecture. Using CBU5900 help
to simplify remote sites, reduces the demands for air-conditioned equipment
rooms, and contributes to quick satellite clock synchronization across the
entire network. This approach also reduces the number of site visits during
maintenance and installation, and considerably lowers future site maintenance
and expansion costs. In addition, it will boost performance of the entire
network via large-scale close coordination.

5G Bearer Networks: Diverse active and passive solutions using
5G microwave and IPRAN to fully meet 5G networks’ ultra-large capacity
requirements

5G networks must feature 10 GE transmission capability to the
site and 50 GE/100 GE transmission capability from fiber optic cables to access
rings, fulfilling the ultra-large capacity requirements of multiple 5G eMBB
services. In a C-RAN scenario, the transmission speed between the centralized
equipment room and the site must reach 100 Gbps. Such requirements pose
enormous challenges to operators’ mobile bearer networks. The current release
includes a range of Huawei 5G bearer product combinations that suit various
scenarios, use different media, and take many distinct forms. In backhaul
scenarios, 5G microwave series products are able to offer 10 Gbps high data
rate and 25 µs low latency when traditional microwave frequency bands are used.
50 GE/100 GE adaptive slicing routers support smooth evolution from 10 GE to 50
GE and 100 GE. This allows operators to implement on-demand deployment. The
active FO OTN fronthaul solution supports up to 15 channels of service access,
hitless switching, and integrated access for multiple services. The Centralized
WDM fronthaul solution uses innovative colorless optical modules to simplify
site delivery and operation and maintenance (O&M). Huawei X-Haul 5G bearer
solution supports multiple technologies, such as IP, OTN, and microwave. The
aim is to help operators resolve bearer network issues in large-scale 5G
deployment.

5G Core Networks: Enabling all-industry digitalization through
all-cloud architecture, on-demand deployment, and smooth evolution

Based on the all-cloud
architecture, Huawei’s 5G core network solution uses microservice-centric
architecture (MCA) to simultaneously support 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G and realize a
smooth evolution from non-standalone (NSA) to standalone (SA). Meanwhile, unlike
the traditional network architecture, Huawei’s 5G all-cloud core network uses a
distributed architecture based on control plane and user plane separation
(CUPS) to help operators deploy the control plane at the central DC and
flexibly deploy the user plane according to the service scenarios. For example,
for eMBB services such as augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) and HD
IPTV over WTTx, the user plane can be deployed at the network edge to minimize
the roundabout traffic on the backbone network, achieve ultra-low latency, and
eradicate congestion. The all-cloud 5G core network is also the basis of
network slicing. As the new business model of 5G era, network slice will help
operators to provide various services via a single network. This will enable
the business transformation from the mass market to the vertical industry
market, while supporting the digitalization of the entire industry.

5G Terminal: World’s only commercial product with small size and
low consumption to provide fiber-like access experience of wireless home
broadband

Huawei also released a range of 5G terminals at MWC 2018. Huawei’s
5G customer premise equipment (CPE) is developed based on the 3GPP standards
and chipset architecture. It is compact in size, low in power consumption, and
highly portable. As the smallest 5G commercial terminal in the world, it
supports C-band and mmWave. In Seoul and Canada, there have been the world’s
first wave of 5G subscriber who use Huawei’s commercial 5G terminals. Based on
3.5 GHz and mmWave, users can enjoy a fiber-like experience of wireless home
broadband services with the rate exceeding 2 Gbps. In addition, Huawei will
launch 5G smart phones in 2019.

2018 will be remembered as the first year that marks the beginning
of the 5G era. Using a full range of leading and mature 5G E2E full-scenario
product solutions, Huawei has realized the continuous deployment of 5G sites in
more than 10 countries, such as China, Korea, Canada, Germany, UK, and Italy.
In typical densely-populated urban areas, these product solutions have provided ubiquitous Gbps-level access rate, hundreds of Mbps of
indoor access experience, and over 20 Gbps cell capacity.

The countdown has begun
for large-scale 5G commercial launch worldwide. Huawei is making the most comprehensive
preparations.

-The
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