Ericsson China President Fang Ying: 5G "Refine, Deepen, and Innovate"

On June 6th, during the 2023 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (PT Exhibition), Fang Ying, Executive Vice President of Ericsson Northeast Asia and President of China, shared Ericsson's latest insights into the current status and trends of mobile communication industry development. He introduced Ericsson's new progress in the next wave of 5G technology, accelerating 5G commercialization, and exploring 6G, and emphasized that Ericsson will remain steadfast in its development in China

On June 6th, during the 2023 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (PT Exhibition), Fang Ying, Executive Vice President of Ericsson Northeast Asia and President of China, shared Ericsson's latest insights into the current status and trends of mobile communication industry development. He introduced Ericsson's new progress in the next wave of 5G technology, accelerating 5G commercialization, and exploring 6G, and emphasized that Ericsson will remain steadfast in its development in China.

China will be the first to enter the second half of 5G

Since the 4th anniversary of the issuance of 5G commercial licenses, with the joint efforts of the government, operators, equipment manufacturers, and industrial partners, China's 5G construction has achieved remarkable results. China led the world in the first half of 5G and will advance to the second half of 5G. In response to the focus of "building", "using", and "researching" in the next stage of China's communication industry, Ericsson will be based on the current situation and work together with operator partners to play a good role in the second half of "5G", and do three things well in the Chinese market: "improving, deepening, and innovating".

Fang Ying emphasized that in terms of "excellence", it means continuously building high-performance, green, energy-saving, intelligent and efficient 5G boutique networks. This is not only the goal of 5G construction, but also the fundamental and foundation for enabling a series of subsequent 5G applications and innovations.

In terms of "deepening", it is to accelerate the release of 5G commercial potential. On the one hand, with the help of Ericsson's rich experience in 5G global applications and advanced 5G network technology, Ericsson will work with operators to help the industry with Digital transformation, support the deployment of new consumer services, and promote the commercial realization of operators' 5G investment; On the other hand, we will utilize network capabilities to open up this "paradigm innovation", allowing 5G to have a "chemical effect" with more industries and empower them.

In terms of "innovation", Ericsson actively conducts research on future technologies with industry partners to promote network evolution. On the one hand, in the technical direction of 5G-Advanced, starting from Release18, we will focus on improving network energy efficiency, network intelligence, time critical networks, new business forms such as XR and RedCap, as well as enhancing air port performance. On the other hand, Ericsson is actively exploring 6G, with the goal of creating a unified entity between the virtual and real worlds, and building 6G into a bridge connecting the digital and physical worlds.

Three elements of 5G boutique network: ultimate experience, green and low-carbon, and AI empowerment

During the meeting, Wu Liping, General Manager of Ericsson's Network Product Solutions in China, further interpreted the construction of a 5G "green boutique" network based on three basic elements: ultimate experience, green and low-carbon, and AI empowerment.

Wu Riping believes that the foundation for the ultimate experience provided by the internet is network devices, and Ericsson has always focused on technological innovation and continuously increased research and development investment. For example, the well-known industry-leading Ericsson self-developed hardware platform, "Ericsson Silicon". It also includes innovation in key technologies such as filters, heat dissipation, and power amplifiers. A typical example is the newly launched high-power 4-antenna macro coverage RF unit by Ericsson this year, which has achieved industry milestone levels of 10kg and 10L, and reduced energy consumption by about 20%. At the same time, many hardware devices that made their appearance at the PT exhibition adhere to the design concept of "small and beautiful" and "green and low-carbon", which can achieve an effect of "capacity" (performance) times "power" (power consumption) half.

In the second half of 2022, Ericsson collaborated with Jiangsu Mobile to open the world's first 5G intelligent green base station, achieving zero carbon operation. Subsequently, we collaborated with Guangdong Mobile to open the first 5G smart green base station in the 2.6GHz frequency band. The most important technological breakthrough of Ericsson's intelligent green site solution is the joint management of different energy methods and the power saving ability of the base station itself, as well as intelligent and dynamic scheduling, to minimize energy consumption and carbon emissions. It can also be used together with Ericsson's microwave products, adding bricks and stones to the deployment of green and low-carbon networks for Chinese operators, "said Wu Riping.

In continuously exploring the potential of AI, Ericsson is based on its professional experience in global network deployment and cutting-edge exploration of global R&D layout. Through massive network data for continuous iterative optimization, Ericsson has created widely deployed Ericsson AI application cases worldwide. Taking the Ericsson AI power saving platform as an example, this platform assists operators in managing over 90000 5G base stations in China, with a power saving effect of over 20%.

Launch the first 5G manhole cover base station in China, and build a 3D three-dimensional heating solution for 5G high-capacity scenarios

Ericsson and China Mobile jointly launched the "Small Base Station Capacity Solution (i.e. 3D Stereo Heating Solution)", which covers three dimensions of high, medium, and low in installation space, and integrates three scenarios of "pole, eaves, and well" in installation method. It can provide convenient 5G capacity enhancement for difficult scenarios with dense pedestrian flow and high capacity demand in a comprehensive and three-dimensional manner, such as transportation hubs, scenic spots, and neighborhoods. This series of solutions utilizes products such as Ericsson StreetMacro Street Station, outdoor DOT system, and 5G manhole cover station.

Cao Lei, Deputy Director of the Wireless and Terminal Technology Research Institute of China Mobile Research Institute, stated: China Mobile has always attached great importance to the construction and application development of 5G networks, and is committed to providing users with a wide coverage, high-quality, and technologically advanced 5G network. With the relaxation of epidemic prevention and control measures, social production and life order is rapidly restored, and large-scale gathering activities such as sports, entertainment, tourism, and exhibitions are showing explosive growth, putting forward higher capacity guarantee requirements for 5G networks. China Mobile hopes to collaborate with the industry through technological innovation Continuously exploring new network solutions and continuously improving network quality and user experience

Ericsson China CTO Wang Haobo said, "Ericsson has always been committed to exploring innovative 5G solutions with China Mobile to provide consumers with a better user experience. The release of this 3D heating solution is also the result of in-depth communication and joint innovation between the R&D personnel of both sides. Ericsson will continue to work with China Mobile Research Institute to promote the next wave of 5G development

5G network nurtures new value, paradigm innovation unleashes greater potential

In the thematic discussion section of the communication meeting, Ericsson experts conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as 5G commercialization and paradigm innovation promoting 5G innovation.

Wu Lidong, Vice President and General Manager of Marketing and Public Relations Department of Ericsson Northeast Asia, pointed out that: High performance networks, advanced 5G network technology, and 5G application innovation and ecological improvement driven by paradigm innovations such as XR and open network capabilities are the core support for the successful commercialization of 5G, and none of them are indispensable. With the enrichment of 5G use cases and the process of value release, larger amounts of data and traffic will inevitably be generated, which will also put forward higher demands for network infrastructure, thereby promoting the construction of 5G networks and the evolution of next-generation networks

When discussing the challenges faced by the commercialization of 5G, Wang Zhong, Technical Director of Industry Solutions at Ericsson China, stated that the technical challenges can be gradually solved in the next wave of 5G represented by 5G Advanced. To address the issue of high prices for existing 5G modules, subtraction can be used to solve the problem. The proposal of Redcap effectively balances the issues of functionality and cost, meeting the needs of mid range connectivity while reducing network resource consumption and end-to-end costs. For low latency and high reliability connection requirements, addition can continue to be implemented. Ericsson has proposed the TCC time critical communication toolbox, which combines the 3GPPURLLC standard with Ericsson's innovative capabilities. Providing consistent low latency (50 milliseconds to 1 millisecond) end-to-end performance at specified reliability levels (99.9% to 99.999%), by selecting several functional combinations from this toolbox, the requirements of specific connection scenarios can be well met.

The significance of opening up network capabilities for 5G application innovation and improving the business ecosystem, After acquiring Vonage, Ericsson is committed to creating a global network platform (GNP) to help telecom operators achieve more 5G commercial growth goals through open network capabilities. Ericsson's global network platform is to build a bridge for global operators and application developers to open network capabilities, "said Mo Wenli, General Manager of Ericsson's Northeast Asia Consulting Services Department

Promote the next wave of 5G and build a "unified entity" between virtual and real worlds in the 6G era

Zhang Yongtao, Vice General Manager of Ericsson China's Technology Department, explained the exploration of future connectivity technologies. He stated that the Ericsson network evolution blueprint is divided into three steps, namely building a high-quality network, the next wave of 5G evolution, and 6G vision and research. The goal is to evolve the existing configuration based, semi static, algorithm based "network machines" into intention based, energy conscious, and harmonious coexistence with the ecosystem as a "network organism".

In the next wave of 5G evolution, the focus is to help operators achieve cost-effective modernization, expand new services, and manage the complexity of networks and services, forming a "new network, new services, new operations". The next wave of 5G will take a significant step forward in performance, functionality, and intelligence compared to existing 5G networks as a whole.

And 6G will bring more disruptive changes. With the help of 6G, people will be able to create a "unified entity" of "virtual world" and "real world", bridging the gap between the "physical world" composed of perception, behavior, and experience and the programmable "digital world".

In addition, Ericsson has recently demonstrated the digital twin of 6G networks that can more accurately predict network performance, the extreme rate of Asia Pacific Hertz, passive IoT devices, 1uW level wireless energy collection units, and the gold band 7-15 Hertz centimeter wave of 6G, all of which will help build future networks.

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