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Huawei Rotating Chairman: Spread of ICT is Accelerating Digital
Transformation and Growth of the Digital Economy in the Arab World

Speaking at the 5th China-Arab States Expo plans. Digital technologies have now and transportation. These industries
being held this week, Huawei’s Rotating become the cornerstone of the intelligent are gradually moving towards greater
Chairman Mr. Guo Ping has highlighted world—and the driver behind its future intelligence. “To this end, Huawei is
the decisive role that information and development in the region,” noted Guo. In committed to knowledge exchange with
communications technology (ICT) can particular, countries in the Arab world have partners across the Arab world, leveraging
play as a driver of the Arab world’s socio- been among the early global adopters of 5G the latest technologies to contribute to their
economic development, expanding the infrastructure. The GCC region especially ambitious national visons. I sincerely hope
region’s digital economy. “The increased has been leading the deployment of 5G, as that industry partners and policymakers in
presence of digital infrastructure is well as other technologies, that will make the region can collaborate in their efforts
positively impacting the Arab world,” the Fourth Industrial Revolution possible. to accelerate the deployment of digital
confirmed Guo. The executive noted According to Guo, adoption of those infrastructure. Together, we can build a
that the MENA region is projected by the technologies has significantly changed more intelligent, interconnected, and low-
GSMA to spend USD70 billion in rolling out sectors like education, healthcare, carbon world,” Guo concluded.
telecom infrastructure between 2019 and
2025. Meanwhile, embracing technologies
such as 5G, AI, cloud, and other fast-
developing areas has helped economies
in the GCC alone to return to a projected
aggregate growth rate of 2.2% in 2021,
according to the World Bank. “Connectivity
and computing are becoming deeply
integrated with all industries and are
creating new value. The development
of advanced ICT solutions is already
proving to be an enabler of economic
recovery following the challenges posed
by the COVID-19 pandemic. New digital
applications are also helping to reduce
carbon emissions in a variety of industries
as per Arab nations’ wider developmental

Huawei Demonstrates Industry First Single-Wavelength 1.6+Tb/S Field Trial

Huawei has completed an industry leading 120km and 1.6Tb/s over 180km. This a ROADM-based metro network link
optical DWDM field trial with line rates record-breaking achievement was of 452km G.652 fiber also employing
per single-wavelength 1.66 Tb/s in a accomplished with Huawei’s advanced EDFA-only amplification. Dr. Maxim
high capacity data center interconnect channel-matched shaping (CMS) Kuschnerov, Director of the Optical and
(DCI) scenario. Together with a European algorithms. It includes the advanced Quantum Communications Laboratory
tier 1 operator, this research trial was non-linear digital signal processing and said: “We achieved an important milestone
performed on 96.5km of field-deployed advanced modulation based on 400QAM towards the era of 1.6 Terabit per second
standard G.652 fiber using EDFA-only using enhanced probabilistic constellation transmission in DCI and metro networks.
amplification. A total of 34 channels were shaping (ePCS). Particularly, the use of Furthermore, deploying a Super-C+L band
transmitted with 150GHz spacing for a deep neural networks powered algorithms line system, the total fiber capacity could
total fiber capacity of more than 56Tb/s achieves superior performance over state- exceed 100Tb/s and provide sufficient
and a spectral efficiency of higher than of-the-art signal processing. In a further room for future network growth driven by
11bit/s/Hz. Additional demonstrations display, a metro network demonstration the rapid expansion of cloud services.”
featured single-wavelength transmission was performed, showcasing 1.28 Tb/s
of 1.77Tb/s over 60km, 1.65Tb/s over net bitrate per single-wavelength in

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