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Huawei’s Innovative FWA² Solution Powers Smart Home Living
At the Global Mobile Broadband
Forum (MBBF) 2023, Huawei, a
global technology company, and
du, a part of Emirates Integrated
Telecommunications Company
(EITC), introduced the world’s first 5G
Advanced (5G-A) demonstration villa.
This smart home of the future
operates on a 10Gbps network,
showcasing their joint innovation in
5G technology.
Earlier this year, Huawei and du
entered into a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) focused
on 5.5G and 5G-A technological
advancements, application
exploration, and ecosystem
development.
The unveiling of the 5G-A Villa
represents an achievement for this
collaborative partnership.
5G-A villa
The 5G-A villa shows the seamless
integration of cutting-edge technolo- company’s Carrier BG, echoed this
gies, providing a unique smart home
experience enriched with features
such as naked-eye 3D and extended
reality (XR).
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As consumer expectations for supe- ‘home of the future’. The showcase
rior experiences grow, the demand offers a firsthand look at the infinite
for network capabilities and content possibilities that 5G-Advanced tech-
evolution rises, prompting carriers to nology will bring to future homes,
enhance their home networks to a along with the superior network
remarkable 10Gbps. experience that 5G-A will offer mobile
users. This achievement is only the
Fahad Al Hassawi, CEO of du, said, beginning.
“From the outset of the 5G era, Fixed
Wireless Access (FWA) has been a “Moving forward, Huawei will continue
transformative catalyst, enabling us to support du in its efforts to build the
to offer cutting-edge solutions to our best 5G networks, explore the com-
valued customers. As pioneers, we at mercial use of 5G-Advanced net-
du are honored to lead the way with works, and champion du’s leadership
such innovative solutions. in this transformative era.”
“Our enduring partnership with Hua- The 5G-A villa demonstrates the
wei has consistently yielded fruitful boundless potential that determin-
results, and with the introduction of istic experience technology holds for
FWA², we aim to redefine the bound- future households.
From a commercial perspective, May
Li, solution and marketing VP, Carrier
Business Group at Huawei Middle East
& Central Asia, tells Gulf Business that
5G-A will advance several indus-
try-user cases, from autonomous
drive cars to flying taxis among other
artificial intelligence-enabled sys-
tems.
“On the commercial case, of course,
there’s a 5G tolling passage spectrum
from low, medium to high band. The
high band is going to the area of the
mixer a millimetre away, so anything
under 60 gigahertz. So all these things
together will support the demand of
the capacity recovery and the latency
required for the 5G advanced user
cases,” says Li.
aries of user experience by providing
our subscribers with unparalleled “The original 5G was behind the
indoor internet connectivity.” mobile phone but 5G-A allow users to
connect massive machines and it is
Li Peng, Huawei’s Corporate Senior enabling the Internet-of-Things,” adds
Vice President and President of the Li.
sentiment. Following the unveiling of the 5G-A,
Li said the advanced technology will
He said, “Today, Huawei is thrilled to eventually be deployed commercially
unveil the 5G-A powered villa at the across the UAE, “but the biggest thing