C114 news on March 3 (Nanshan) is now the era of 5g. According to the latest data from the global association of mobile providers (GSA), as of the end of last year, 200 operators in 78 countries / regions had launched one or more 5g services meeting 3GPP standards. In addition, 487 operators in 145 countries are investing in 5g, including testing, licensing, planning, network deployment and startup.
5g network does not exist independently. Operators in various countries still operate 2G / 3G / 4G networks at the same time. The coexistence of multiple network systems leads to complex network structure, high network maintenance cost and poor user experience. ZTE put forward the concept of “high-quality network” as early as more than ten years ago to build a high-quality model network, improve network quality and user perception, so as to display the value and potential of the network.
“ZTE cooperates with many operators to build a high-quality network. In the past 10 years, it has built an average of more than 20 high-quality model networks every year, covering more than 100 countries and regions around the world.” During the MWC exhibition, Hong Gongcun, vice president of ZTE, told c114.
Network double leading
At the same time, global network construction is faced with severe challenges brought by COVID-19’s continuous spread. How to build a high-quality communication network in the new environment, give full play to its maximum value, support the development of digital economy and promote the connection of all parties has become one of the most concerned topics of global operators.
“Leave the simplicity to the customer and the complexity to yourself.” Hong Gongcun introduced that ZTE has simplified the deployment of communication network through digital and intelligent tools and systems, so as to smoothly and quickly deploy high-quality network. “Based on years of experience in communication network deployment, ZTE global service team has created the concept of digital network deployment, aiming at the best user experience and constantly pursuing the leading technology and quality of the network.”
After more than 30 years of experience in communication network construction, ZTE has established an end-to-end engineering service capability system in the world, and has the ability to quickly establish a team and efficiently deploy the network from scratch in a country. At present, ZTE has deployed more than 5 million stations around the world, built more than 140000 kilometers of external line projects, and deployed high-quality networks in more than 100 countries and regions, creating a number of network leading achievements.
Three highlights of boutique network
ZTE’s high-quality network construction solution carries its digital network deployment concept. Hong Gongcun said that the construction of ZTE high-quality network starts from network planning, takes the improvement of network performance as the basis, pays attention to user perception, and finally realizes business growth and profitability for operators. Its construction process includes four stages: basic network construction, value network evaluation and improvement, user experience improvement and customer business growth. Boutique network can effectively improve network quality and user perception, and improve the brand and business value of operators.
In terms of scheme deployment, ZTE provides customized network performance improvement schemes for operators, actively introduces big data tools, and provides a strong guarantee for the achievement of high-quality network construction objectives through functional applications such as coverage evaluation, multi network coverage comparison, antenna feeder detection, virtual road test and intelligent optimization, so as to realize benchmark improvement, engineering optimization, multi-standard coordination HD voice, data topics, intelligent capacity expansion, automatic efficiency improvement, big data platform, intelligent big data and other services.
Hong Gongcun summarizes the highlights of ZTE’s high-quality network solution into three aspects. First, the whole process is covered, and the construction of high-quality network is accompanied by the whole process of network deployment and operation; Second, flexible scheme customization, which can provide personalized, differentiated and intelligent solutions according to the real needs of operators; Third, introduce intelligent big data platform to vigorously promote the network goal. It is reported that in the construction of high-quality network, ZTE has adopted smarthippo, a wireless precise planning platform based on big data, unideploy, an intelligent nia and NGI operation and maintenance tool, Vmax, a user perception analysis platform based on big data, which has supported the scale delivery and operation and maintenance of global communication network and created an industry-leading high-quality network.
Benchmarking cases are all over the world
Based on the concept of digital network deployment and high-quality network solutions, ZTE has created more than 20 high-quality model networks around the world every year, with extensive industry influence. These networks have performed extremely well in the third-party evaluation.
In terms of international boutique network, ZTE’s boutique network jointly built with overseas operators such as Austria Hutchison, Italy wind tre, South Africa MTN, Indonesia telkomsel and Thailand AIS in 2021 ranked first in third-party evaluation such as ookla, umlaut, tutela, opensignal and P3 respectively, boosting the brand value of operators and promoting user development and revenue.
Among them, the Italian wind tre project is ZTE’s stock boutique network with the largest scale, the most complete wireless system and the highest complexity in developed countries. For wind tre in Italy, ZTE wireless network expert team closely fits customers and introduces the latest technology to create a high-performance network that meets users’ needs. In the ookla Speedtest test of q1-q2 in 2021, this boutique network continued to win the award of “Italy’s fastest mobile network”, fully releasing the network value.
In terms of domestic high-quality network, ZTE has jointly built 5g benchmark network with operators in super first tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen to realize super Gigabit continuous coverage experience, help industry partners digital intelligence transformation and enable digital new economy. In 2021, many projects won the excellent project award organized by China Communications Association.
“A series of innovative products and solutions help customers achieve the ultimate performance of the network and the ultimate user experience. ZTE will continue to focus on customer value and is committed to providing high-quality network services beyond expectations for global operators and industry customers.” Hong Gongcun finally said.