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China Unicom and Huawei Jointly Release Industry's First eAI-Accelerated
Education Broadband

China Unicom and Huawei have released than 50% and ensuring smooth online a new service experience to the online
the first eAI-accelerated education education. education industry."
broadband in China, providing gigabit • Penetrating one more wall: Industry- Qin Yang, Deputy General Manager of
high-speed broadband for students in leading high-gain antennas and China Unicom (Beijing), said, "We are
Beijing. The embedded AI (eAI) technology intelligent anti-interference algorithms dedicated to providing users with a superior
reduces the latency of online education allow Wi-Fi signals to penetrate one experience using innovative technologies.
services by more than 50%, and ensures a more wall, ensuring zero frame freezing The education broadband released using
smooth online learning experience in the in online classes, even under severe Huawei's eAI and big data technologies will
fifth generation fixed network (F5G) era. interference. provide students in Beijing with the same
Online education is increasingly popular • Instant fault recovery: The NCE smooth education without requiring them
as a convenient teaching method and intelligent O&M platform makes home to be physically present in classrooms."
high-quality teaching resource favored by Wi-Fi network visible and supports Jeffrey Zhou, President of Huawei's
parents. As the number of people receiving remote optimization to reduce Access Network Product Line, said: "The
online education in China reaches 300 home network faults, enable quick F5G gigabit era has come. High-quality
million, network quality is becoming the troubleshooting, as well as ensure online education experience requires
key to ensuring a premium education students' online education experience. zero frame freezing, zero disconnection,
experience for teachers and students • Reduced carbon emissions equivalent higher bandwidth, lower latency, and wider
alike. Approximately 20% to 30% of online to one tree planted: The intelligent coverage. In the future, home network
education participants experience frame hibernation mechanism reduces power services also need to be more secure, agile,
freezing or disconnection, which severely consumption by 20%. The carbon and energy efficient. The OptiXstar gigabit
affects the online learning experience. emission reduced for each user per year smart gateway launched by Huawei will
The major causes include low Wi-Fi is equivalent to planting a tree. reshape the online education experience
bandwidth and high latency on the home Zhang Yunyong, General Manager of China and make online learning more efficient."
network side, which cannot meet the Unicom's Product Center, said: "Today, The new education broadband product
resolution requirements of current 1K we released the Education Broadband can be subscribed to at customer service
and future 2K/4K online education. As a as a step to upgrade our products and centers and the online service app at China
leading operator in Beijing, China Unicom services. Further innovative products will Unicom (Beijing). China Unicom is an
(Beijing) proactively communicates with be released in future to meet personalized official partner of the 2022 Olympic Winter
the municipal education commission, network requirements of various user Games in Beijing. Its education broadband
public schools, and training institutions to groups. China Unicom is committed to product has attracted extensive attention
understand the requirements of different promoting the prosperity and development from consumers, and has set a new
education scenarios in this pandemic. of the telecom industry together with benchmark for home network services,
Understanding that online education partners across the industry chain. The paving the way for a new round of online
requires high bandwidth in both upstream current education broadband will bring education. As a global leader in the optical
and downstream directions, China Unicom
(Beijing) chose Huawei's eAI-accelerated
education broadband solution to provide
students with convergent gigabit
broadband in both wired and wireless
modes, thereby reshaping the online
education experience. Huawei's eAI-
accelerated education broadband solution
has four key advantages: zero frame
freezing, Wi-Fi penetrating one more wall,
instant fault recovery, and reduced carbon
emissions equivalent to one tree planted.
• Zero frame freezing in online courses:
Huawei's unique OptiXstar gigabit
smart education gateway integrates
eAI and can instantly identify online
education services to perform targeted
acceleration, reducing latency by more

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