ZTE embracing the 5 g future and dramatic opportunities

1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
March 20th, 2018
Embracing the 5G Future and
Dramatic Opportunities

2. 3G/HSPA -100Mbps
4G /LTE -1Gbps
2000
Voice Data
Internet
Data Dominated
Abundant Apps
High
Mobility
2010
10-100x Data Rate Massive Connections
Mobile Internet IoT / Industry 4.0
2020+
5G and Beyond–10G+bps
1G
1980
Analog
Voice
2G -100Kbps
1990
Digital
Voice
Mobile Telecommunication Evolution Trend

3. 3
eMBB mMTCURLLC
Gigabytes in a second
3D/UHD
Video
HD Voice Cloud Game
VR/AR
Smart Home
Smart City
Industry
automation
Autonomous
Driving
Mission critical
App
M2MCloud Office Remote Surgery
Intelligent
Transportation
10+ Gbps Peak Data Rate ~1ms Radio Interface Latency 1 Million Devices per Km2
Application Scenarios Targeted by 5G

4. 4
5G Progress in MEA Region
 South Africa
5G MOU lead to trial will be finished before H1 2018
 Egypt
5G corporation for vertical
market collaboration.
 Qatar
Commercial 5G network by end of 2018 .
 UAE
ET 5G trial in UAE will lead early
commercial 5G network by end of 2018.
 Kenya
Strong technology sector will drive 5G development
 Nigeria
Modest 5G commercialization in
early 2020s.
 Saudi Arabia
5G trial will be launched before the end of
2018 in Saudi Arabia.

5. 5
Impact of Digital Service Evolution
First Impetus
Service architecture
is changing and
new services are
developing
Second Impetus
The pure CT
eco-chain may be
broken
Enterprise
SaaS
Video
Conference
CP/SP
Telecom operator
Past Closed Business Model
Service retailers
Service providers
Communications and cloud
infrastructure providers
Current Open Diamond
Economic Model
Mobile
Data
Mobile
Financing
Digital
Entertainment
M2M
Lifestyle
Legacy
Voice
SMS/MMS
Vertical
E-Health
E-Education
E-Transport

6. 6
Main Challenges and Key Technologies of Infrastructure Evolution
Diverse business models Expanding from the consumer market to consumer + vertical markets
Agile & On demand services Traditional monolithic architecture could not provide flexible services
Seamless experience with any access 5G core network needs to support multiple access technologies
Network Resiliency & Availability Diversified service and environments need higher reliability
More open services ecosystem Open platform is needed to introduce new business quickly and safely
Cloudification
(MEC, SBA)
Network Slicing
(E2E, Microservice)
DevOps
(Intelligent, Automation)

7. 7
Access
Transport
Core
• Cloud Ubiquitous Access
– 4G/Pre5G/5G/FTTx
Ecosystem for Digital Transformation
• On-demand and Intelligent Operation
– DevOps
• Platform Cloudification– SDN/NFV/NFVI/IT Infrastructure
• Diversified Vertical Service – PaaS/SaaS/NSaaS/RCS/Big
Video/CDN/Enterprise/Residential
• Agile and Flexible Transport
Network – 5G Flexhaul/
SDN-oriented IP + Optical Synergy
Devices

8. 8
Infrastructure Evolution: Cloudification + MEC + Network Slicing
The cloudification makes efficient service offering and innovation platform
App AppApp App
SDN/NFV
Orchestrator
Cloud RAN
uRLLC UPF eMBB UPF
vCDN
Edge DC Central DC
NG-CP
mMTC
vCDNBackhaul
WAN
(IP + Optical)MEC/CDN
Internet Internet
Fronthaul
5G RRU
5G DU
5G CUFronthaul
5G RRU

9. 9
Mobile Edge Computing for Low Cost and Low Latency
Reducing fronthaul, backhaul, and WAN cost
Edge DC
…
5G RRU+DU
2/3/4G
5G RRU+DU
Access
Centeral DC
…
User Plane
Management Plane
MEC
Converged Core User Plane
5G CU
Control Plane
Applications
Applications
App AppApp App
SDN/NFV
Orchestrator

10. 10
Network Slicing for Multi Business Customers
RF
VNF
CU UPF
AMF
SMFUPF
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 1DU
Slice 1 Slice 1
NFVI NFVI VIMVIM
App AppApp App
SDN/NFV
Orchestrator
Business customers have access to highly customized networks tailored to their specific
requirements in a cost effective, timely, and efficient way with a service level agreement.
Network Slice
as a Service

11. 11
Transport Network Evolution
3G/4G/4.5G
5G RRU/DU
Flexhaul
Cloud RAN Core DC
IP+Optical Synergy
Edge DC
Forwarding Plane
Flexhaul (FlexE):
• Bandwidth: Increase 100 times
• Transfer delay: 20 times shorter
• Synchronization accurate: 10 times
• Protection: 50 times faster
IP + Optical Synergy:
• Improved resource utilization: Bandwidth
resource improved by 40~60%
• Automated OAM: OPEX saving for about
40~50%.

12. 12
Operation Evolution: DevOps
Blueprint
Assemble
Resource
Assignment
SLA/KPI
Define
One key
Launch
Online
Config.
Sandbox
Test
Dev Ops
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
Agile
Design
Automated
Deployment
Intelligent
Assurance
Model
Driven

13. 13

14. 14
Recap
 To embrace the 5G future and dramatic opportunities, get our infrastructure
and operation ready now!
 Cloudification provides agile and efficient service offering and innovation
platform
 MEC and distributed user plane reduce the transmission cost and lower the
latency
 Network slicing enables business customers to share the infrastructure and
mobile network in the most cost effective and efficient way

15. 谢谢！ 谢 谢！Thanks!