Huawei and Zain may even collaborate to develop new use instances for the IoT and personal community options
Chinese language vendor Huawei and Saudi Arabian telecommunications operator Zain KSA have just lately signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on their “5.5G” Metropolis joint innovation venture.
Beneath the phrases of the settlement, each events will collectively work to advertise technological innovation for so-called 5.5G evolution and develop scalable choices to particular person, enterprise, and authorities clients.
The 2 firms additionally stated they purpose to construct a pioneer community, which might pave the best way to meet the nationwide digitalization targets outlined within the Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030 framework.
The collaboration will contain offering a “gigabit expertise in each indoor and out of doors eventualities” by way of the large-scale deployment of MetaAAU and 5G service aggregation, in addition to Huawei’s LampSite digital indoor options, in response to the seller.
Each events may even work collectively to develop new use instances for the Web of Issues (IoT) and personal community options.
Throughout Cell World Congress 2023, Huawei highlighted the primary options of what it’s calling 5.5G networks, the corporate’s time period for developments in areas like built-in sensing and communication, Stage 4 autonomous driving, “all-scenario IoT” ideas and inexperienced ICT.
Huawei says that such future networks will allow a 10-fold enchancment in latency, positioning accuracy and reliability. And in response to the Chinese language vendor, passive IoT expertise will allow a rise within the variety of linked issues from 10 billion to 100 billion in 2030.
Huawei additionally defined that future 5.5G networks with sensing functionality shall be used extensively in eventualities like sensible metropolis street visitors companies and perimeter sensing, making city infrastructure extra environment friendly and clever. “For instance, in wet or foggy climate, 5.5G networks can robotically detect obstacles or abnormalities on the street and notify drivers by way of the maps of their vehicles one kilometer prematurely, making transportation safer,” the corporate stated.
Paul Scanlan, president advisor of Huawei’s service enterprise group, stated throughout a media roundtable throughout MWC 2023 that so as to commercially launch 5.5G networks, the technical requirements needs to be outlined and an ecosystem nonetheless must be developed.
In line with the seller, there aren’t any particular spectrum bands for five.5G, as all bands can be utilized for this expertise. Nevertheless, operators could face some challenges because the spectrum already allotted to the cellular business just isn’t ample for five.5G, in response to the corporate.
Nevertheless, Huawei did remark that 6 GHz band shall be a key band for the so-called 5.5G expertise and that it has been urging telecom regulators globally to order this spectrum band for cellular operators.
5G Superior, which may very well be thought of the “midway” level of 5G releases, shall be specified by 3GPP Releases 18, 19 and 20, after which 3GPP’s work will deal with 6G, which can hit the market round 2030, in response to a number of voices within the business.
