Since the commercialization of 5G, telecom operators and communication equipment vendors have faced a severe test. On the one hand, 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G **** exist, and the complexity of the mobile communication network is unprecedented, which brings great challenges to the 5G network construction, especially in the later stages of network operation and maintenance; on the other hand, the diversification of business in the 5G era and the diversification of the customer experience have also put forward higher requirements for the intelligence of 5G network construction and operation and maintenance.
"Operators need to efficiently build a high-quality 5G network, which puts very high demands on the network delivery capabilities of communications vendors." Sun Fangping, senior vice president of ZTE, said in a recent interview, "Therefore whether or not to have future-oriented and customer-oriented intelligent and comprehensive network delivery capabilities becomes the key to the success or failure of communication equipment vendors in the industry competition."
Intelligent Delivery: Simple and Complex
In network construction, there are many sites to be deployed, and the surrounding environment is complex, so network planning, equipment opening and debugging, and network optimization work are facing great challenges. 5G base station's own technical characteristics are more complex, but also for the network construction has increased the difficulty of traditional manual network delivery solutions are no longer sufficient. The traditional manual network delivery program is no longer sufficient. ZTE Corporation has developed a complete 5G intelligent delivery solution based on decades of network construction experience and research into cutting-edge technologies. The solution covers all aspects of network planning and design, installation and deployment, network optimization, acceptance testing, and network operation and maintenance, and features a full set of end-to-end intelligent delivery tools that can effectively reduce the difficulty in delivering the network and improve delivery efficiency.
Mongoos, the data exploration and analysis platform developed by ZTE, realizes intelligent network planning through AI algorithms; NGI intelligent network optimization tool realizes virtual road test and intelligent network optimization; and NIA intelligent operation and maintenance tool realizes intelligent analysis of alarms. In particular, in order to solve the pain points of operators in virtualized network delivery and deployment, ZTE Corporation has developed the NFV AIC automated integration tool platform, which provides end-to-end, one-stop tool support for various aspects of core network planning and design, program validation, network deployment, and integration testing, which greatly improves the efficiency and quality of NFV network integration, and truly achieves simplicity and mastery of complexity.
Digital Delivery: Efficient Management of Global Projects
In the 5G era, carriers are demanding automation, intelligence, and agility in the delivery of communications projects. In response to customer demand, ZTE has developed an intelligent, digital project delivery management system, EPMS, which not only manages project planning, progress, documentation, and quality, but also controls project costs, materials, outsourcing, issues, and risks, and has data visualization capabilities. Intelligence, digitalization, and end-to-end project control are especially critical to the efficient delivery of large and complex projects. ZTE EPMS enables all information, item, and financial flows in a project to become smoother, enabling project management to be anywhere, anytime, in real time, collaborative, and more efficient and intelligent. At present, ZTE EPMS system has been widely used in tens of thousands of projects around the world.
According to Sun Fangping, with its digital delivery management system, end-to-end project management system, efficient project management process, precise delivery workflow, three-dimensional control mechanism, professional team building, and continuous research, innovation, and practice of management initiatives and management methods, ZTE Corporation has achieved fruitful results by upholding the delivery standard of high efficiency, agility, and intelligence, which is highly recognized by its customers and enjoys a good industry reputation. ZTE Corporation has achieved fruitful results by adhering to efficient, agile, and intelligent delivery standards, which have been highly recognized by customers, enjoyed a good reputation in the industry, and won many industry awards. In recent years, ZTE Corporation's project management has been awarded with two awards in a row, including the "2019 PMI China Outstanding Project Award for Project Management" and the "Best Enterprise Practice Award for 20 Years of China's Project Management Development".
Delivering Excellence: Partnering with Customers to Win
Building a high-quality network has always been the goal of major carriers. In order to help customers realize this goal, ZTE Corporation has innovatively proposed a boutique network construction solution based on the principle of optimal user experience, which not only effectively improves customers' network quality and user perception, but also greatly improves the value of the operator's network.
According to Sun Fangping, over the past 10 years, ZTE has continued to push forward the construction of the 'Excellence Network Project', and has established excellence networks in more than 100 countries and regions.
In the domestic market, ZTE joined hands with the three major operators*** to build a high-quality network, and has won the China Communications Enterprises Association Award, the award for high-quality projects in communications network optimization, the first place in the construction of city cluster networks, the first place in the ATU test of the China Mobile Group, the first place in the three-party test of the China Telecom Group, and the first place in the three-party test of the China Unicom Group, among other honors. In the overseas market, ZTE Corporation has constructed a number of projects such as Hutchison Austria, MTN South Africa, Telkomsel Indonesia, and Wind Tre Italy, which ranked first in third-party testing, and has worked hand in hand with operators to **** win.
Dedicated to supporting global 5G construction
ZTE has more than 30 years of experience in communications network construction, as well as a global system of end-to-end engineering service capabilities, with three-dimensional networks and branches in more than 160 countries and regions around the world, and tens of thousands of professional delivery teams, working with thousands of partners, has deployed millions of sites and hundreds of thousands of kilometers of outbound engineering globally, providing quality products and efficient services to more than 2 billion users around the world.
As domestic 5G construction accelerated in 2020, ZTE undertook a series of wireless, bearer, and core network construction tasks for the three major carriers, covering 31 provinces across the country. In the first half of 2020, ZTE overcame the impact of the epidemic to help domestic operators realize 5G commercial scale in more than 350 cities, and built 5G benchmark networks in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and many other cities, realizing the experience of ultra-gigabit continuous coverage. At the same time, in order to support the domestic medical industry "anti-epidemic", ZTE has also joined hands with operators to carry out 4/5G network transformation for more than 210 hospitals in 26 provinces and 82 cities across the country, and built a 5G telemedicine joint consultation system for nearly 20 square cabin hospitals in Wuhan within 24 hours.
Overseas, ZTE collaborated with Huchison Drei Austria to release the first 5G commercial network in Orly, joined with Orange to make Europe's first 5G SA First Call based on the X55 commercial chip, helped Italy's Wind Tre deploy customized 5G products and solutions from low to high frequencies, and supported Thailand's AIS realized the first 5G SA+NSA dual-group network commercialization, and helped MTN in South Africa to realize the fastest extreme rate demonstration and the fastest commercial deployment.
Sun Fangping said that ZTE will always adhere to the customer-centric and market-driven approach, and win the trust of more and more customers around the world by actively building its professional advantages in smart delivery and intelligent operation and maintenance.