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Huawei Releases a 5G Voice Solution

At MWC Shanghai 2021, Huawei officially released a 5G voice the integrated network supports access of and offers services for
solution, Single Voice Core, helping operators improve voice 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and fixed-line subscribers. The Single Voice Core
quality and build a cloud-based 5G voice network. Voice calls solution can reduce the misery index to 220 or lower, making it
have always been considered one of the most reliable means of the best choice for operators to provide voice services with 5G.
communication. As protocols stipulate that voice calls cannot fall Huawei is committed to developing and innovating voice network
back from 5G to 2G/3G networks, the IMS-based VoLTE network technologies and has accumulated years of extensive experience.
was set as the basic voice network following the commencement Huawei will continue to inspire and innovate, as well as collaborate
of 5G. As such, operators must invest in and operate multiple with partners to boost new voice services and create new value
networks, causing inconsistent service, cumbersome O&M, and for customers.
other issues. To better understand these challenges, we can
introduce a concept from the economic industry, the misery index,
to tally network complexity. The misery index for an operator is
determined by the number of networks, platforms, and NEs owned
by an operator, as well as an O&M complexity factor. The larger
the misery index is, the more cumbersome O&M is. For example,
an operator serves about 10 million subscribers. In 2G/3G, the
overall network is simple, and the misery index for the operator
is about 260. In 5G, a VoLTE network is necessary, and CS and
IMS networks must coexist for a long period of time. In this case,
the misery index for the operator is 700. As a large number of
devices on the live network will reach the end of their life cycles in
the next two years, the misery index will soar to over 1000. As a
result, Huawei has proposed the Single Voice Core solution. This
innovative solution adopts all-cloud IMS architecture and aims to
integrate CS and IMS networks to simplify the network topology,
inherit all basic CS services, and provide unified interfaces. With
the Single Voice Core solution, media transcoding times and call
forwarding times are reduced, improving voice quality, reducing
hardware usage by 30%, and lowering OPEX by 40%. In addition,

Nexign Invests in The Development of The

Universal Billing

Nexign (a part of ICS Holding LLC), a leading suppliers. This need is driven by growing billing. "We rely on our experience in the
Business Support System (BSS) and complexity of the ecosystem, which telecommunications industry and take the
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, combines classic communication services trends and needs of a changing market
announced the start of the project called and new digital services for private and into consideration. Digitalization of various
"Universal Digital Billing." The project will corporate customers. At the same time, sectors of the economy creates high
be funded with investments from Nexign, the billing solution must take into account demand for billing solutions. The flexibility
as well as with a grant from the Russian the exchange rates and taxation schemes, and high performance of the universal
Fund for the Development of Information as well as other factors that affect mutual billing will enable Nexign to support
Technologies (RFRIT) on a targeted and settlements between suppliers and the digital transformation strategies of
free basis. The sales start is scheduled consumers of products and services. telecom operators and service providers in
for 2022. The product is intended for Providing extensive converged billing both local and international markets,” says
both telecom operators and companies capabilities, the Nexign's new product will Igor Gorkov, CEO of Nexign. “The support
from related areas: it can be used by give customers the choice between using from RFRIT means that Nexign team will
service platforms for the production and mainstream commercial databases and be able to strengthen the company’s
distribution of content in various digital moving to open source database systems, research and development functions.
networks, as well as by SaaS and PaaS such as PostgreSQL. Thus, flexibility, It also indicates recognition by experts
platforms. Telecom operators and service scalability, and availability for both large who selected the best projects during the
providers need a flexible solution for market players and small companies will competition.”
settlements with consumers, partners and be the key advantages of the universal
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