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Kenyan, Chinese firms partner to launch faster, cheaper internet
Source: Xinhua | 2017-12-07 21:11:57 | Editor: huaxia

A woman uses Tecno mobile phone in front of a Tecno Mobile shop in downtown Nairobi, capital of Kenya, May 9, 2017. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

NAIROBI, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's telecommunication firm Jamii Telecom has partnered with Chinese firm ZTE to introduce the country's fastest and cheapest mobile internet in a move Kenyan officials said will help spread the benefits of internet to more people.

The service, Faiba 4G Mobile Network, will operate under the prefix 0747 and will be the first to provide voice over LTE.

Faiba 4G Mobile will offer free voice calls, and will be able to do high definition voice and video after 50 million U.S. dollars were invested in its network infrastructure and commercial trials were successfully launched.

Jamii Telecom becomes Kenya's fifth mobile telephone services operator, helping increase competition which is attributed to lower costs of mobile telephone and data services in East Africa's largest economy.

"We have already been serving clients across the country with the fiber network but now we have also introduced mobile services to enable as many Kenyans as possible to access cheaper and faster internet," Jamii Telecom's Chairman Joshua Chepkwony said on Friday evening.

Chepkwony said the demand for internet in Kenya is increasing by day with the cost of bandwidth and speed being key considerations for customers.

"For instance we have noted a consistent increase in demand for home internet. Whereas all homes may not be reached through fiber optic cable, they have now had a mobile channel they can use," said the chairman.

The company also becomes the first to offer free voice services. "Voice will be free as long as the customer has bought a bandwidth bundle," said Chepkowny.

ZTE will be the company's strategy partner, enabling it to be the first in eastern and central Africa to launch the 4G Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) which is a standard for high-speed wireless communication for mobile phones and data terminals ensuring the best voice, video and internet quality and speeds.

The Chinese company termed the new development as historic for the east African country.

Kenya regulators Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) said the launch on new faster and cheaper mobile and fiber data is a continuation of innovation in country's information communication sector which has helped continuously disrupt the industry.

"What we now need as a country are data analytics to guide us on the best way to structure data so that it becomes useful," said CAK Director-General Francis Wangusi.

Wangusi said the industry regulator is working to complete the IT-aided national addressing system by 2018 in a move that will make it easier to do electronic commerce.

Henry Rotich, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for The National Treasury, said the government will continue to work on policy and related measures to encourage private investments like those being done by Jamii Telecom.

He said the government has also invested in laying fiber optic cables across the country in a bid to make delivery of services efficient.

 

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In boost for national security, China missile firm domesticates computer network

2017-12-08 08:49 Global Times Editor: Li Yan

Missile firm localizes computers

China's largest missile weapon designer and manufacturer has created the country's largest computer network system based on domestically developed processors in a bid to boost information security, the company announced Thursday.

The company's research and manufacturing departments have installed domestic processors in more than 20,000 computers to safeguard information and prevent manipulation by overseas technology monopolies, Gu Peng, director of the network and information security department of Institute 706 at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) in Beijing told the Global Times on Thursday.

Domestically made means "we know everything about the processors and operating systems at hand and we can fix problems and update them from the basics and avoid the backdoor loopholes hidden inside by overseas developers, which will effectively defend against hackers," Gu said.

Most of China's key information infrastructure, systems and personal computers depend on overseas processors, operating systems and storage appliances that might contain safety loopholes and lock-ins, the People's Daily reported on Monday.

"The very survival of the country's information system is under threat," Gu said.

The corporation began replacing its computer network in 2014 with homegrown and controllable products including Loongson processors and Kylin operating systems, the People's Daily reported.

"Terminals based on Loongson CPU can fully meet daily office requirements and work as well as their overseas counterparts," according to a Loongson statement sent to the Global Times on Thursday.

The processors have been deployed in dozens of State projects including China's GPS-like BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, the statement said.

Kylin is an operating system developed since 2001 at the National University of Defense Technology in Beijing.

A State-owned high-tech company under direct administration of the central government, CASIC is the country's largest missile weapon designer and manufacturer.

By 2015 the company had completely localized 18 operating systems and a network of more than 1,000 computers handling State-level classified information.

Institute 706 leads the way, cooperating with more than 100 Chinese information technology companies to form a complete industrial chain for home-grown information-related products including CPUs, operating systems, database and cloud platforms, according to Gu.

http://www.ecns.cn/military/2017/12-08/283638.shtml

 

[JSCh]

China Telecom to become Philippines’ third telecoms player
2017-12-11 10:25 GMT+8

State-run China Telecom could become the Philippines’ third telecoms player, officials of the southeast Asian nation said on Sunday, as the government looks to stir up competition in an effort to boost notoriously poor services.

President Rodrigo Duterte last month offered China the “privilege” of challenging a longstanding duopoly that has frustrated consumers because of slow and intermittent Internet and mobile phone services.

“The Chinese government selected China Telecom to invest in the Philippines upon invitation by President Duterte during the bilateral meeting on November 16,” Eliseo Rio, secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology, told Reuters.

Chinese companies could not operate alone in the Philippines and would need to partner with a local company.

A longstanding duopoly in the Philippines has frustrated consumers because of slow and intermittent Internet and mobile phone services. /Photo via Reuters

The government is now looking at who will partner with China Telecom on a 60-40 basis, Rio said.

The Philippine constitution’s 40 percent cap on foreign ownership of domestic telecoms companies has kept interest from multinationals at bay in the market of more than 100 million people.

Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said the state-owned Chinese company should partner with a reputable Philippine company with an existing telecoms franchise.

“The government is fast-tracking this because consumers are getting annoyed with dropped calls and slow Internet connections,” Andanar said in a radio interview on Sunday.

Also seeking to be a major player is Philippine Telegraph & Telephone Corp, which had said it was talking with China Telecom and Datang Telecom about strategic partnerships to challenge the nation’s dominant duo of PLDT Inc and Globe Telecom Inc.

Source(s): Reuters

 

[JSCh]

China, Finland in talks about Arctic telecom cable
by Janne Suokas Dec 14, 2017 13:09 TRADE INVESTMENT BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

The new Arctic data link would cut the time delay from Asia to Europe in half. Christopher Michel Flickr CC BY 2.0

China is reportedly in talks with Finland about a high-speed telecommunication cable connecting Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean, a sign of the country’s growing interest in developing the Arctic region.

State-owned China Telecom Corp expressed interest in participating in the cable project in September, while the Chinese Ministry of Industry Information and Technology sent officials to the project’s first senior-level meeting in March, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing Finnish officials.

The Finnish-led project seeks to lay a 10,500km-long seabed fiber optic cable from Japan and China to Kirkenes, Norway and the Kola Peninsula in Russia, and from Norway through Finland to central Europe.

The cable could provide the fastest Asia-Europe data link as early as 2020. Cinia Group Oy, a Finnish state-owned information and communications technology company, puts the estimated cost of building the cable at 700m euros (US$820m).

China Telecom told Bloomberg that it was open to a “win-win cooperation” but that no concrete plans had yet been formed regarding the project.

A study led by former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen for Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications last year found that the project was both “politically and technologically feasible” and noted that Russia, China, Japan and Norway were interested in it.

China steps up Arctic cooperation
China is yet to release its highly-anticipated Arctic strategy, but it has shown clear interest in exploring and developing the region, where melting ice due to global warming is expected to provide new shipping and natural resource extraction opportunities.

In June, China formally included a sea route connecting it to Europe through the Arctic Ocean to its Belt and Road initiative, which seeks to increase trade between Asia, Europe and Africa through massive investments in railroads, ports and other infrastructure.

The 'Ice Silk Road' link received a boost last week with the launch of a major Arctic liquefied gas project on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula. The China National Petroleum Corporation and the Silk Road Fund, set up by Beijing to fund Belt and Road investments, hold a combined 29.9 percent stake in the US$27bn project.

Meanwhile, Chinese shipping companies have sent 12 vessels through the Northeast Passage in the Arctic Ocean this year, up from five last year, while Chinese icebreaker Xue Long sailed the Arctic Ocean for almost three months, including its first trips through the Transpolar Sea Route and the Northwest Passage.

Beijing has also stepped up diplomacy with the Nordic countries, with President Xi Jinping becoming the first Chinese leader to pay a state visit to Finland since 1995 in March.

Last month, Finland became the first Nordic country to join China’s Belt and Road initiative with the launch of a direct cargo train link connecting the Finnish city of Kouvola with Xi’an in China.


China, Finland in talks about Arctic telecom cable | GBTIMES

 

[cirr]

Huawei, NTT Docomo achieve breakthrough in 5G field trial

2017-12-20 13:35 chinadaily.com.cn Editor: Gu Mengxi

Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant, and NTT Docomo Inc, Japan's largest telecommunications company, have successfully completed a joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39 GHz Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band in Yokohama, one of the largest commercial areas in Japan.

In the trial, the downlink data transmissions were recorded at a maximum speed of over 2 Gbps on a testing vehicle equipped with a user equipment (UE), equivalent to a mobile phone, while driving at over 20 kilometers per hour.

This successful trial opens up a new door for applications and deployments of 5G mmWave.

Long-distance mobility transmission over 5GmmWave is one of the enabling technologies to realize 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and ubiquitous connectivity of massive data rate while fully leveraging the current macro-cellular sites investment by operators.

Takehiro Nakamura, the vice-president and managing director of 5G Laboratory at NTT DOCOMO said, long-distance transmission over 39GHzmmWave will enable 5G network deployments on a large scale.

"It opens up the new stage of the 39GHz mmWave technology and will deliver the ultra-fast experience with 5G high data speed," he said.

Wen Tong, Huawei fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless Networks, said it's a technological challenge and opportunity to use the long-distance transmission of 5G mmWave Mobile Communications technology.

The wireless industry, he said will start using the new spectrum 100 times broader than current network to foster next wave of innovations.

"The 5G mmWave technology will help our customers to reuse the existing network infrastructure, especially for sites resource, to protect their investment. Huawei will continue to innovate to make 5G mmWave a success," Wen said.

Achieving wide area coverage and mobility performance on 5G mmWave is still a technological challenge for 5G industry. High propagation loss of mmWave signals limits its coverage, while narrow directional beam required to focus the transmission power makes the mmWave beam to track the mobile device, becoming more difficult.

The joint field trial conduced in November 2017 successfully demonstrated that 39GHz mmWave can be used for the long-distance transmission in both stationary and mobility scenarios even in urban complex deployment environments.

The partners recorded over 3 Gbps downlink throughput on the stationary user equipment (UE) at a distance of 1.5 km and over 2 Gbps at a distance of 1.8 km on 39GHz mmWave.

The trial has validated and proved the effectiveness of two companies' mmWave technologies to provide range of 5G services which require wide area coverage.

The test system was made up of one base station on Yokohama Media Tower that works on the 39GHz band and an UE on a testing vehicle.

This trial boasted the innovative materials based compact focal lens antenna with advanced beam forming (maximum gain of 31 dBi) technique to concentrate the radio waves in a certain direction to enable long-distance transmission.

The advanced beam tracking technique is employed to trackUE on a testing vehicle travelling at speeds of over 20 km per hour. This is the industry-first filed trial to verify the long-distance mmWave transmission for mobility application in macro-cell coverage scenarios.

The invented mmWave beam processing algorithms are used to allow the best beam selection, fast beam tracking, and fast beam switching for the best performance for mobile terminal. Moving at about 25 km per hour, the terminal user experienced the high-speed transmission and stable throughput.

Huawei and Docomo jointly worked on the 5G innovation and successfully conducted a series of large-scale field trials since December 2014. Currently, the developments of 5G have entered a new era, with the first version of 3GPP 5G standard of Release-15 expected to be completed in 2018. The industry is thus entering the 5G pre-commercial stage.

"Huawei will continue to work on research and development of mobile communications technologies in cooperation with partners around the world to offer new services that utilize 5G in diverse scenarios for 2020 and beyond," Wen said.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-20/285211.shtml

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei, NTT Docomo achieve breakthrough in 5G field trial

2017-12-20 13:35 chinadaily.com.cn Editor: Gu Mengxi

Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant, and NTT Docomo Inc, Japan's largest telecommunications company, have successfully completed a joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39 GHz Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band in Yokohama, one of the largest commercial areas in Japan.

In the trial, the downlink data transmissions were recorded at a maximum speed of over 2 Gbps on a testing vehicle equipped with a user equipment (UE), equivalent to a mobile phone, while driving at over 20 kilometers per hour.

This successful trial opens up a new door for applications and deployments of 5G mmWave.

Long-distance mobility transmission over 5GmmWave is one of the enabling technologies to realize 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and ubiquitous connectivity of massive data rate while fully leveraging the current macro-cellular sites investment by operators.

Takehiro Nakamura, the vice-president and managing director of 5G Laboratory at NTT DOCOMO said, long-distance transmission over 39GHzmmWave will enable 5G network deployments on a large scale.

"It opens up the new stage of the 39GHz mmWave technology and will deliver the ultra-fast experience with 5G high data speed," he said.

Wen Tong, Huawei fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless Networks, said it's a technological challenge and opportunity to use the long-distance transmission of 5G mmWave Mobile Communications technology.

The wireless industry, he said will start using the new spectrum 100 times broader than current network to foster next wave of innovations.

"The 5G mmWave technology will help our customers to reuse the existing network infrastructure, especially for sites resource, to protect their investment. Huawei will continue to innovate to make 5G mmWave a success," Wen said.

Achieving wide area coverage and mobility performance on 5G mmWave is still a technological challenge for 5G industry. High propagation loss of mmWave signals limits its coverage, while narrow directional beam required to focus the transmission power makes the mmWave beam to track the mobile device, becoming more difficult.

The joint field trial conduced in November 2017 successfully demonstrated that 39GHz mmWave can be used for the long-distance transmission in both stationary and mobility scenarios even in urban complex deployment environments.

The partners recorded over 3 Gbps downlink throughput on the stationary user equipment (UE) at a distance of 1.5 km and over 2 Gbps at a distance of 1.8 km on 39GHz mmWave.

The trial has validated and proved the effectiveness of two companies' mmWave technologies to provide range of 5G services which require wide area coverage.

The test system was made up of one base station on Yokohama Media Tower that works on the 39GHz band and an UE on a testing vehicle.

This trial boasted the innovative materials based compact focal lens antenna with advanced beam forming (maximum gain of 31 dBi) technique to concentrate the radio waves in a certain direction to enable long-distance transmission.

The advanced beam tracking technique is employed to trackUE on a testing vehicle travelling at speeds of over 20 km per hour. This is the industry-first filed trial to verify the long-distance mmWave transmission for mobility application in macro-cell coverage scenarios.

The invented mmWave beam processing algorithms are used to allow the best beam selection, fast beam tracking, and fast beam switching for the best performance for mobile terminal. Moving at about 25 km per hour, the terminal user experienced the high-speed transmission and stable throughput.

Huawei and Docomo jointly worked on the 5G innovation and successfully conducted a series of large-scale field trials since December 2014. Currently, the developments of 5G have entered a new era, with the first version of 3GPP 5G standard of Release-15 expected to be completed in 2018. The industry is thus entering the 5G pre-commercial stage.

"Huawei will continue to work on research and development of mobile communications technologies in cooperation with partners around the world to offer new services that utilize 5G in diverse scenarios for 2020 and beyond," Wen said.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-20/285211.shtml

Beneficial cooperation. NTT Docomo is a behemoth.

 

[cirr]

Approval of 5G standards big step forward for mobile tech

2017-12-22 14:26

chinadaily.com.cn Editor: Li Yahui

The first version of global 5G standards for the non-standalone New Radio network was passed Thursday, signaling that telecom equipment suppliers and manufacturers can start developing 5G hardware, a big step forward in the commercialization of 5G technology.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, a global organization that oversees cellular standards, has agreed on the specifications for Non-Standalone 5G NR (New Radio) at a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.

The move signals major progress in the commercialization of 5G, or the next generation of mobile communication technology, which will allow consumers to download an 8-gigabit movie in seconds and execute tasks that are thrilling but impossible in the 4G era.

China Mobile, as the sole entity that conceived of the 5G System Architecture project, led research on application scenarios and demand for 5G NR technology.

Yang Chaobin, president of Huawei Technology's 5G product line, said phase 1 of the 5G standardization was completed "with great progress" thanks to collaboration between regulatory agencies, governments, research organizations, academia and industry.

"Huawei will keep working with global partners to bring 5G into the period of large-scale global commercial deployment from 2018," he said.

China Telecom senior vice president Liu Guiqing said the carrier would be looking to launch field trials in many Chinese major cities during 2018.

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/12-22/285527.shtml

Global 5G standard finalized

2017-12-22 16:11

shine.cn Editor: Huang Mingrui

The world may soon see the birth of 5G commercially because the first global 5G standard was finalized yesterday, which will boost commercial development and network construction of the next-generation standard, said telecommunications firms and 3GPP, the organization that governs cellar standards.

China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom and technology giants like Huawei and ZTE are some of the major corporations that will be involved in harnessing the 5G standard which allows network speed of 20 to 50 times faster than the current 4G networks. The 5G networks are expected to roll out around 2019, according to market observers.

Huawei said in a statement yesterday it will accelerate construction of mass scale network and commercial use of the new 5G technology.

China Mobile partners 112 companies to develop new applications on 5G, including drone, bike sharing, parking, wearable computing and robotics, said the world's biggest mobile carrier with more than 880 million users.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-22/285555.shtml

 

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Chinese telecom firms set the 5G ball rolling

2017-12-23 12:12

China Daily Editor: Huang Mingrui

Visitors using China Mobile-enabled phones at a recent exhibition of telecommunication products in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. (Photo by Li Zhihao/for China Daily)

Global telecom equipment suppliers and device makers can now start developing 5G hardware, after the first implementable global 5G specification was finalized, taking a big step forward to the commercialization of the next generation mobile communication technology.

The move comes as Chinese telecommunication companies are evolving from being followers into pioneers in the global telecoms arena and making greater contributions to industry standards.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, which is a global organization that oversees cellular standards, agreed on the specification for nonstandalone 5G new radio technology at a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday.

Non-standalone 5G deployment offers a way for companies to set up 5G stations by partially relying on current 4G network infrastructure. It offers a faster way to roll out the super-fast technology. New radio technology is a new way to connect smartphones, base stations and other hardware.

Xiang Ligang, a telecom expert and CEO of telecom industry website Cctime, said 3GPP has set the specifications for 5G equipment in both towers and smartphones alike.

"It signals that network and radio engineers can all work on a single platform for all 5G devices. Features, functions, services and standards are set for carriers, phone and radio equipment makers. They now have a basis to begin to produce 5G equipment. It is another big step towards making 5G a reality," Xiang said.

Chinese companies are playing a bigger part in drafting 5G standards. Last year, China Mobile Communications Corp, the world's largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, outgunned foreign rivals to lead the global 5G System Architecture project, which will determine the "structure of 5G networks".

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-23/285597.shtml

 

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Chinese telecom firms set the 5G ball rolling

2017-12-23 12:12

China Daily Editor: Huang Mingrui

Visitors using China Mobile-enabled phones at a recent exhibition of telecommunication products in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. (Photo by Li Zhihao/for China Daily)

Global telecom equipment suppliers and device makers can now start developing 5G hardware, after the first implementable global 5G specification was finalized, taking a big step forward to the commercialization of the next generation mobile communication technology.

The move comes as Chinese telecommunication companies are evolving from being followers into pioneers in the global telecoms arena and making greater contributions to industry standards.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, which is a global organization that oversees cellular standards, agreed on the specification for nonstandalone 5G new radio technology at a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday.

Non-standalone 5G deployment offers a way for companies to set up 5G stations by partially relying on current 4G network infrastructure. It offers a faster way to roll out the super-fast technology. New radio technology is a new way to connect smartphones, base stations and other hardware.

Xiang Ligang, a telecom expert and CEO of telecom industry website Cctime, said 3GPP has set the specifications for 5G equipment in both towers and smartphones alike.

"It signals that network and radio engineers can all work on a single platform for all 5G devices. Features, functions, services and standards are set for carriers, phone and radio equipment makers. They now have a basis to begin to produce 5G equipment. It is another big step towards making 5G a reality," Xiang said.

Chinese companies are playing a bigger part in drafting 5G standards. Last year, China Mobile Communications Corp, the world's largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, outgunned foreign rivals to lead the global 5G System Architecture project, which will determine the "structure of 5G networks".

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-23/285597.shtml

Do you have some figures for how much of the SEP patents do Chinese firms own in 5G? I have heard wildly different estimates from mere 7% all the way up to 20%.

Also, when are Chinese companies releasing 5G modems? The only news I have heard is that Huawei will launch a phone by 2019, but Intel and Qualcomm have already launched their 5G modems.

 

[qwerrty]

Top companies leading 5G development
09 Nov, 2017

5G is expected to be the next game-changer in ICT. This latest upgrade in cellular technology promises to meet the need for faster internet speeds, better security, and the ability to accommodate billions of connected devices in the coming years. And it’s almost here. According to industry analysts, 5G will be rolled out in most countries by 2020.

There’s tremendous activity around the development of 5G network and devices. According to Netscribes research, there has been a 300% increase in the number of related patent publications in 2017 since 2015.

Fig 1: Number of 5G patent publications from 2012 to 2017



What’s more interesting is that 31% of 5G patents are assigned to only six companies. Samsung has a major share with over 600 patents and is followed by other large corporations such as Intel, Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson, and ZTE.

Fig 2: Top 5G patent assignees

1. Samsung

Samsung has already unveiled a slew of pre-commercial versions of end-to- end 5G mobile network products and solutions, including home routers, maintenance and operation systems and 5G RF Integrated Circuit (RFIC) chipset and ASIC modems.


Samsung has also announced that it will focus on extending its portfolio with support for the millimeter wave spectrum and spectrum below 6 GHz. In addition, Samsung has completed several 5G trials across Seoul and the US in collaboration with mobile operators such as SK Telecom, Charter Communications, Verizon, and AT&T.

2. Intel

Intel recently launched its 5G Mobile Trial Platform which is powered by Intel’s field-programmable gate array (FGPA) circuits and Core i7 processors, enabling it to implement the latest communications protocols and air interfaces. The company is driving the development of technologies through extensive partnerships and collaborations with tier-1 service providers, telecom equipment manufacturers, and infrastructure partners.

Intel is also actively conducting end-to-end interoperability developmental tests across countries in different conditions. It has been working closely with the standards bodies and plays a major role in the standards evolution that will help define the 5G market in the coming years.

3. Nokia

Based on the technical specifications outlined by the Verizon 5G Technology Forum ecosystem, Nokia’s 5G FIRST solution aims to help mobile operators deploy advanced 5G networks quickly and smoothly even before the standards are finalized. According to Nokia, the solution comprises its radio access network (RAN), including Nokia AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antennas, packet core, and mobile transport solutions as well as a full-service offer using Intel architecture and the Intel 5G modem for initial deployments starting in 2017.

4. Huawei

Huawei is making important strides in bringing 5G into reality. In 2016, Huawei announced its breakthrough in polar coding. More recently, Deutsche Telekom installed the first 5G antennas in Berlin that were manufactured by Huawei. Huawei has also partnered with Intel to launch 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) based Interoperability Development Testing (IODT) to verify 5G technologies and their degree of maturity. In India, it has partnered with Bharti Airtel to launch the country’s first massive MIMO antenna technology to expand existing network capacity by five to seven times.

5. Ericsson

The Swedish telecommunications giant is focused on helping telecom operators and industries be ready for 5G by offering a range of products and solutions. Ericsson’s 5G Radio Prototypes, for example, enables operators to test 5G capabilities live in their own network environments.

Ericsson recently introduced its first 5G NR radio for frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO, AIR 3246, which supports both 4G/LTE and 5G NR technologies.

Ericsson’s Radio System Software brings together LTE FDD and TDD, WCDMA and GSM into a unified architecture. This provides one O&M system for all standards, which helps operators better manage the network.

6. ZTE

ZTE has developed a series of innovative technologies for implementing the new 5G air interface such as filters OFDMA FB-OFDMA, MUSA, MIMO, UFS, smooth virtual cell (SVC) and so on. Its 5G network architecture is based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) / Network Functional Virtualization (NFV) technology. ZTE has been actively involved in patent filings in the last five years. Most of its patents are focused on Radio Transmission systems, SDR systems, Orthogonal Multiplex Systems, synchronization corrections systems, distributed coding technology, network latency, network planning, and network security.

The fifth generation of wireless communication is set to impact major industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, public transport, healthcare, and energy and utilities. IoT is expected to play a larger role in day-to-day lives and change the way companies interact with customers. To stay prepared, understanding the shifts in the market, technology, and competitive landscape as-they-happen is paramount.

 

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China telecom firms steer 5G

2017-12-25 10:42 Global Times Editor: Li Yan

Big 3 telecoms boast larger database, markets

China has played a key role in setting the faster standards for 5th-generation (5G) mobile networks and wireless systems thanks to its burgeoning telecommunications market and gigantic user database, experts told the Global Times on Friday.

Hardware specifications for the Non-Standalone 5G New Radio standards were ratified at a meeting of the third Generation Partnership Project group in Portugal, US-based wireless communications news website fiercewireless.com reported on Wednesday.

China's three big operators -China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - are members of the group and China Mobile leads a 5G research project, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Friday.

China has a gradually increasing say in the telecom standards that will form the basis of commercial 5G products, telecom expert Xiang Ligang told the Global Times on Friday. "Whoever has a say in the standards has a say in the market," he said.

Faster 5G speed will slash 4G download latency. The new standards result from discussions among major global telecommunication companies, Xiang noted, "but in the past, China had little discourse power in those discussions."

When 1G standards were first set, most of the standards were set by the US, he explained.

"Later European and Japanese companies joined the competition for 2G standards and at that time, all China could do was to decide which side to support," he said.

When China invented its own TD-SCDMA telecommunications standard, it was the "turning point for domestic brands to start gaining the upper hand over overseas firms in the domestic mobile phone market," Xiang said.

After TD-SCDMA, overseas companies gradually started to take the Chinese standard into consideration when setting 3G and 4G standards.

"Now for 5G, Chinese companies can decide more than half of the standards," Xiang said.

The increasing power results from the increasing competence and business scale of Chinese telecommunication companies and hardware manufacturers like Huawei Technologies, said Liu Xingliang, head of the Data Center of China Internet.

"This is also a reward for those companies' strong investment in technological research," Liu told the Global Times on Friday.

China's bigger say would also boost China's competitiveness in the global telecommunications market, he noted.

"If Chinese companies can decide the standards, they can produce phones that meet those standards earlier than overseas competitors," he said.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/12-25/285731.shtml

 

[JSCh]

World's first mimic DNS server operates in China
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-24 13:18:20|Editor: Yamei



ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- World's first mimic DNS (Domain Name System) server went into operation Tuesday in Central China's Henan Province, a proactive move to prevent cyber attacks.

The server is in use by China Unicom's Henan provincial branch. It marks the first practical application of the mimic security theory proposed by Chinese scientists, according to the Henan Communication Administration.

The mimic DNS server will not change the current network structure but can effectively prevent various known and unknown attacks targeting the system, it said.

"Mimic DNS server is just our first application. The mimic web server, mimic cloud, mimic data center and other network devices will be launched in the future," said Wu Jiangxing, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician and head of the research team.

Inspired by Mimic Octopus, the master of disguise in nature which can change appearance to adapt to the environment, Chinese scientists have proposed an idea of mimic computing in 2007 and produced the world's first mimic computer prototype in 2013.

 

[Dungeness]

World's first mimic DNS server operates in China
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-24 13:18:20|Editor: Yamei



ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- World's first mimic DNS (Domain Name System) server went into operation Tuesday in Central China's Henan Province, a proactive move to prevent cyber attacks.

The server is in use by China Unicom's Henan provincial branch. It marks the first practical application of the mimic security theory proposed by Chinese scientists, according to the Henan Communication Administration.

The mimic DNS server will not change the current network structure but can effectively prevent various known and unknown attacks targeting the system, it said.

"Mimic DNS server is just our first application. The mimic web server, mimic cloud, mimic data center and other network devices will be launched in the future," said Wu Jiangxing, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician and head of the research team.

Inspired by Mimic Octopus, the master of disguise in nature which can change appearance to adapt to the environment, Chinese scientists have proposed an idea of mimic computing in 2007 and produced the world's first mimic computer prototype in 2013.

Sounds like a NMD for cyberspace.

 

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World's first mimic DNS server operates in China
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-24 13:18:20|Editor: Yamei



ZHENGZHOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- World's first mimic DNS (Domain Name System) server went into operation Tuesday in Central China's Henan Province, a proactive move to prevent cyber attacks.

The server is in use by China Unicom's Henan provincial branch. It marks the first practical application of the mimic security theory proposed by Chinese scientists, according to the Henan Communication Administration.

The mimic DNS server will not change the current network structure but can effectively prevent various known and unknown attacks targeting the system, it said.

"Mimic DNS server is just our first application. The mimic web server, mimic cloud, mimic data center and other network devices will be launched in the future," said Wu Jiangxing, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician and head of the research team.

Inspired by Mimic Octopus, the master of disguise in nature which can change appearance to adapt to the environment, Chinese scientists have proposed an idea of mimic computing in 2007 and produced the world's first mimic computer prototype in 2013.

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I found very little information about this technology, other than those from Chinese news web.

Well, it is a Chinese innovation -> Cyber Mimic Defense - Wikipedia