Huawei's Vision for the Future of the Telecommunications Industry

(Business News & Technology News, 9 Jan 2009)

As one of the global leaders in providing next-generation telecommunications equipment, Huawei, serving 35 of the world's top 50 operators, is uniquely positioned to offer sharp insights on the future direction of the divergent global telecommunications industry as the company looks ahead to 2009 and beyond.

Huawei shares below what it has identified as the top 10 trends that reflect the development of the telecommunications industry going forward, and will be critical to the success of operators as they position themselves in a rapidly evolving market landscape:

1) Cost-effective to All-IP for broadband transformation in order to keep up with rocketing demand

2) Need for carrier-grade IP to ensure end-to-end high-quality communications with carrier-grade reliability and maintainability

3) ARPU deterioration as most growth will be derived from emerging markets, forcing operators to adopt creative solutions to capture market share while maintaining profitability

4) Improving efficiencies in mobile broadband delivery through optimizing coverage within metropolitan zones

5) SingleRAN advances to meet the need for a horizontal integrated radio network to support voice, narrowband data, and mobile broadband

6) Tera-scale networks to meet surging growth in data traffic

7) New voice business models will emerge, as operators recognize voice as a natural channel for communication and information acquisition

8) Value creation in broadband, such as intelligent traffic management to enhance bandwidth utilization, to handle growing broadband data traffic

9) Evolution of traditional operators to provide content and media services, utilizing their huge customer base that will largely be user-driven and user-generated

10) Virtual computing and the virtualization of service capabilities in a "cloud computing" environment

All of these trends point to a much more networked world in which the boundaries between software, IT, and communications have become blurred, and where major advances in both the quality and the capacity of real-time connectivity will be necessary to meet continually escalating demand.

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