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or no signal coverage and had to walk to overcome these challenges. RuralStar shorter than a traditional site. After the site
up the mountains to make a call. This Pro revolutionizes the traditional base was deployed, the coverage proportion
difficulty in communication was one of the station mode with its all-in-one design in the village soared from 5% to 85%, and
reasons this village struggled to develop that integrates baseband, radio frequency clear VoLTE voice services and a download
economically. Maopo village is one of the (RF), and wireless LTE backhaul all in one speed of 20 Mbps are now accessible
key targets for precise poverty alleviation tiny box. This design supports LTE wireless to the residents. One of China Unicom's
in Guizhou, of which rural digitization is self-backhaul, innovatively compensating engineers who was involved in the site
high prioritized. Despite finalizing site for the weaknesses of microwave and deployment was impressed by how fast the
planning, China Unicom had to delay the optical fiber transmission. Integrating site was deployed, saying that this was the
network construction multiple times. main equipment, this design also helps fastest site he had deployed in 10 years.
This is because the foggy environment reduce the site's power consumption China Unicom Guizhou highly praised
made using microwave for transmission to only a little over 100 W, which is far the deployment, saying: "Broadband is
difficult and it is costly to lay optical fiber lower than that of the traditional site. playing an increasingly important role in
in the mountainous village. Huawei's new This site can be installed on a 6 m pole, the alleviation of poverty in rural areas,
RuralStar Pro solution enables the operator significantly reducing civil work costs particularly for the villages where network
and simplifying delivery. As a result, deployment is challenging. In the future,
site investment is greatly reduced. The we will continue to work with Huawei to
access-backhaul integrated design was develop simple and cost-effective network
first implemented by Huawei in wireless solutions for villages in mountainous
networks. This deployment, in particular, areas to bring mobile broadband and its
is a major milestone in expanding access benefits to more people." Innovation will
to rural communities and marks the never cease. Since its maiden launch three
first commercial use of such a design in years ago, Huawei's RuralStar series has
the communications industry. With the been continuously improving. Huawei
access-backhaul integrated base station will continue to innovate products and
deployed in Maopo village, the installation solutions to bring digital to every person,
and commissioning took only 2 hours, 80% home, and organization.

Huawei's 5G Core Solution Won the Golden Zizhu Award at the 2020 China
Communications Industry Conference

The annual China Communications value of network connections, meet the proactive network fault prevention, and
Industry Conference was held in Beijing. At requirements of different industries for automatic fault recovery, achieving
the conference, Huawei's 5G Core solution differentiated networks and deterministic intelligent and automatic O&M.
was presented with the 2020 Golden Zizhu experience, expand the industry market, Beneficial: Through smooth user
Award, and won the "Excellent Product and pave paths for 5G to all economic migration, priority operation, and new
Technical Solution in 2020" award. sectors while serving users. The network communication solutions, Huawei 5G
In addition, both the communication has the following advantages: Core solution helps carriers ensure and
industry's top ten events in 2020 and the Stable: The innovative 5GC Cross DC improve user experience, and expand
top ten technology trends of 2021 were N-Way Redundancy, intelligent 100-fold their 5G subscriber base. Public networks
announced. The accelerated commercial flow control, and seamless batch upgrade for private use, high-availability private
use of 5G brings rich service experience of the telco cloud ensure high network networks, and industry solutions help
to individuals and families, makes industry reliability and availability. carriers become the preferred partners in
applications more flexible, and brings new Simple: The 2G/3G/4G/5G convergent core industry digital transformation.
service growth opportunities. The core network helps carriers quickly construct Huawei will work closely with global car-
network plays a key role in 5G networks, as networks and reduce operation costs. riers and industry partners to promote 5G
it continuously promotes the commercial Fast: Huawei 5G Core solution uses a commercialization and facilitate business
use of 5G and enables 5G to better serve series of MEC hardware and innovative success through continuous innovation.
users and the digital transformation of technologies, such as UPF's plug-and- The Communications Industry Conference
industries. Huawei 5G Core solution is based play, multi-dimensional dynamic slicing, (CIC) & Annual Conference on Communi-
on cloud native and uses key technologies network capability openness, and A/B test, cation Technology have been held for 15
such as network slicing, MEC, 5G LAN, and to implement fast network deployment, years, starting in 2006. The conferences
automation engine to provide users with a service provisioning, application gathered government officials, experts,
deterministic network with customizable, integration, and version rollout. and top entrepreneurs in the communica-
guaranteed, and manageable experience. Intelligent: Intelligent technologies are tion industry, being among the most es-
The solution helps carriers maximize the introduced for network optimization, teemed industry events in China.

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