Huawei unveils AI-ready 5G-AA solutions at MBBF 2024 

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Recently, Huawei launched its new 5G-AA solutions, designed to address the growing demands of Mobile AI.  

The solutions aim to deepen the integration of 5.5G networks with AI technologies, improving both network capabilities and user experiences. As such, these solutions focus on two complimentary concepts: ‘Networks for AI’ and ‘AI for Networks’.  

‘Networks for AI’ seeks to ensure that mobile networks are equipped with the necessary capacity and flexibility to support the diverse service requirements emerging through the global adoption of AI.  

On the other hand, ‘AI for Networks’ seeks to equip the mobile networks themselves with advanced AI features, such as RAN Agents, making their operations intelligent, autonomous and efficient. 

“Mobile AI is changing our lives. The arising new connections and services pose increasingly higher requirements on networks,” said Cao Ming, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei’s Wireless Solutions. 

“Huawei’s 5G-AA 10 solutions build multidimensional ultimate network capabilities through the full-series Advanced Radio, enable full-domain site digitalisation through Ambient Site, and achieve L4 network autonomy through the Agent-based digital engineers team. With such excellent performance, these solutions will help operators meet the ever-diversifying demand for services in the Mobile AI era,” he continued. 

Cao presented a variety of new solutions, with one of the most innovative of which being the new Sub-1 GHz Massive MIMO technology, allowing low-band spectrum to benefit from Massive MIMO architecture. This has numerous benefits for operators, allowing them to leverage the low-band spectrums long range while also providing improved downlink, uplink, and low-latency performance. It offers full access to all radio access technologies (RATs) and guarantees reliable real-time services and IoT connectivity. 

Huawei also introduced several products aimed at simplifying 5G deployment. The Blade AAU X, for example, supports Massive MIMO across all sub-6 GHz bands with a single antenna. It requires 50% less space than competing products and reduces operational costs by 70%. For U6GHz, the new IMT spectrum, Huawei releases the U6GHz AAU that integrates over 1,500 antenna elements and supports speeds of up to 10 Gbps. Based on Huawei’s unique ELAA technology, the U6GHz AAU achieves indoor continuous Gbps experience. The EasyAAU represents the industry’s lightest AAU on the market, weighing half of a typical 8T RRU model, making it ideal for rapid 5G deployment. 

To support the rapidly growing IoT market, Huawei’s new LampSite X solution enables indoor 10Gbps and Passive IoT (P-IoT) access, allowing enterprises to generate more real-time data within their operations, including daily asset stocktaking and digital upgrades.  

For rural areas, Huawei unveiled RuralCOW, the latest iteration of the RuralLink and RuralStar product line. This all-in-one solution integrates fronthaul and radio units into a single box, eliminating the need for backhaul, BBU, and access to the energy grid. This will allow mobile connectivity to be delivered in areas previously unavailable to operators, as well as significantly reducing site costs for multi-RAT deployments in remote locations. 

Supporting all of these innovations is Huawei’s intelligent RAN Agent-based digital engineers team, which offers unattended maintenance, real-time optimisation, and 24/7 energy-saving possibilities. This approach, alongside with Huawei’s Ambient Site technology, enables full-site digitalisation, improving energy efficiency and overall user experience. 

In his closing remarks, Cao Ming emphasised the significance of Mobile AI and 5.5G and encouraging industry-wide collaboration, 

“Mobile AI is on the horizon.” We will continue to work with all industry partners and innovate to promote the integration of 5.5G and AI.” 

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