Huawei announces plans to integrate artificial intelligence into networks. The company's decision will significantly enhance network performance, DKnews.kz reports.
Eric Zhao, Vice President and Marketing Director of Huawei Wireless Solution, shared the company's plan to integrate artificial intelligence into networks during a keynote at the 5G-A & AI roundtable at MWC Shanghai 2024. This plan aims to create an RAN Intelligent Agent ecosystem in collaboration with operators to enhance network performance. The first phase will cover 1,000 engineers and 10,000 production sites in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Jinan, and Shenzhen within six months.
After three years of intensive efforts, the telecommunications sector has witnessed the transition of 5G-A from concept to reality, with 2024 being declared the first year of commercial 5G-A deployment. To date, 5G-A has demonstrated impressive performance in terms of network, business, and device development. Currently, mobile networks face growing challenges related to complex operational and management conditions, diverse network characteristics, and various experience-based operations. In response to this trend, Huawei proposed integrating artificial intelligence into networks, creating an RAN Intelligent Agent ecosystem capable of transforming network management, experience, and services. This method of integrating artificial intelligence into 5G-A networks will be an effective way to enhance network performance. The RAN Intelligent Agent provides a second pilot that supports role-based chatbots and agents that support scenario-based decision automation.
“Our goal is to integrate artificial intelligence into networks. To achieve this goal, we will transition from being a solution provider to co-creating intelligent networks. We believe that the joint growth of networks and the RAN Intelligent Agent will increase business value, accelerate network transformation, and lead our industry into a new era of intelligent technologies” Eric Zhao, Vice President and Marketing Director of Huawei Wireless Solution
Changing operational conditions: The RAN Intelligent Agent improves efficiency by simplifying processes. An impressive example of this is the field maintenance second pilot introduced by Huawei. As the first AI-based assistant of its kind, the second pilot independently formulates decision-making policies based on extensive expert knowledge to significantly improve efficiency. In the field, it facilitated troubleshooting of the optical path with tenfold efficiency.
Changing work experience: The RAN Intelligent Agent allows networks to autonomously optimize performance and save energy. Optimization is automated based on real-time multidimensional accurate measurements and the creation and provision of optimal experience and energy-saving policies. Covering an area of 223 cells, the RAN Intelligent Agent has been operating stably for thousands of hours, automatically improving performance with minimal possible energy consumption. This is the first time Huawei has worked with operators to implement such automated network management.
Changing service configurations: The RAN Intelligent Agent ensures experience-based service operations by assessing network resources in real-time. This allows operators to offer new services as soon as they are needed and ensure a deterministic level of service. The 5G-A live broadcast package is incredibly useful in this regard. As the first of its kind in the world, it provides fruit farmers with the deterministic uplink speed they need to reach customers through live broadcasts, and is a good example of how operators are implementing innovative business models to accelerate monetization.
“Integrating artificial intelligence into networks opens up new opportunities for improving the performance and efficiency of telecommunications infrastructure. Collaborative technology development and knowledge exchange with leading global companies like Huawei open up new horizons for the telecommunications industry and contribute to global digital transformation. We welcome Huawei’s initiative and are confident that it will bring significant benefits to both operators and users” Yerzhan Meiramov, Chairman of the Telecommunications Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Yerzhan Meiramov, photo: Huawei
MWC Shanghai 2024 will be held from June 26 to 28 in Shanghai, China. During the event, Huawei will present its latest products and solutions at booths E10 and E50 in Hall N1 of the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC).
The year 2024 will be the first year of commercial use of 5.5G, and the deployment of the F5.5G gigabit optical network has already begun. The synergy between networks, cloud, and intelligent systems will lead to increasingly widespread intelligent applications and increasingly diverse user experiences. This year at MWC in Shanghai, Huawei, together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, will discuss exciting topics such as how to enhance 5G success in the 5.5G era and how to leverage the potential for operator revenue growth to accelerate the transition to an intelligent world.
