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5G Super Uplink: World's First Commercial Adoption, Enabling Conch Group
to Achieve Smart Factory 2.0

China Telecom Anhui has teamed up with areas, factories, and indoor and outdoor groups. It has been proactive in leveraging
Huawei to successfully provide 5G Super locations of a subsidiary cement factory intelligent technologies to transform
Uplink services to Conch Group, one of of Conch Group. The verification results and upgrade traditional industries. It has
China's largest building material corporate demonstrated a 20% to 60% increase successfully constructed China's first
groups. This is the first time the innovative in uplink data speed in the areas close full-process intelligent cement factory. In
5G technology has been implemented into to base stations and a maximum 300% June 2019, Conch Group signed a strategic
worldwide end-to-end (E2E) commercial improvement in the areas distant from the cooperation agreement with China
operations. The solution has triumphed base stations after Super Uplink was used. Telecom Anhui to set up a 5G innovation
in the market, providing strong support This greatly improves uplink perceived lab for smart manufacturing. The two
for Conch Group to attain smart cement rate and extends coverage areas for 5G parties have jointly started 5G innovative
factory 2.0 upgrade and transformation. networks. Such leading network capabilities application pilots in its cement factories
This was a trial adoption by Conch Group, provide effective support for continued in Wuhui and Quanjiao of Anhui province
where a miniature 5G customer-premises safety operations, intelligent warning, and in close collaboration with Huawei,
equipment (CPE) Pro 2 developed on real-time surveillance in mobile scenarios. leading for 5G smart manufacturing in
HiSilicon's chipset was used, highlighting This is conducive to overall improving Anhui. The group's 5G project leader
successful E2E commercialization of production efficiency, maintaining safe said: "Since the signing of the strategic
5G super uplink. Super Uplink was first and healthy working environment, and cooperation agreement, China Telecom
unveiled as a joint innovation by China promoting Conch Group's smart cement and Huawei have been deeply involved
Telecom and Huawei at the Mobile World factory development. China Telecom Anhui in the construction of our smart cement
Congress (MWC) Shanghai in 2019. The boasts leading comprehensive information factories, with a multitude of achievements
innovative solution allows for 5G networks service capabilities. In close collaboration already implemented in our production.
to increase uplink bandwidth while further with Huawei, it has successfully explored Based on 5G networks, we have already
reducing latency through TDD/FDD a number of innovative 5G technologies seen significant improvement in the
coordination, complementation between and services. These include China's first operational efficiency across a full range
high and low frequency bands, and time- 5G-showcase airport, 5G VR panoramic of production processes in cement-related
domain/frequency-domain aggregation. broadcast for Huangshan Scenic Resort, mining, transportation, and production.
This provides strong technological self-driving field tests, and 5G telemedicine. In particular, Super Uplink helps us meet
support for 5G industrial applications. Conch Group is one of the world's leading the high-performance requirements in
The trial deployment covers a full scope cement production enterprises and one of bandwidth, latency, and coverage of our
of network scenarios, including the mining China's largest building material corporate key businesses on wireless networks."

Standard Bank SA Accelerates Journey to Digital

Enterprise with Microsoft, SAP

Standard Bank South Africa is moving for Personal and Business Banking SA, says Nkwanyana. Lillian Barnard,
its core SAP Cloud Platform services to says leveraging the computing power Managing Director, Microsoft South Africa
Microsoft Azure to significantly improve of Microsoft and the product innovation says, “The Project Embrace initiative
the experience customers have with the capability of SAP demonstrates how between Microsoft and SAP announced
bank, while enabling it to introduce new Standard Bank is embracing partnerships globally last year is centered around the
solutions to market more efficiently. This and ecosystems to develop customized customer journey to SAP S/4HANA and
accelerates the digital transformation of solutions for its clients.“ SAP has a SAP Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure.
SAP customers to S/4HANA by partnering deep understanding of our business The work that we are doing with Standard
with Microsoft and using jointly developed requirements and how we want to ensure Bank is the first local demonstration of this
reference architectures, roadmaps, and our customers are happy with our service partnership, and another milestone in the
industry best practices. Many enterprises offering. This partnership continues our journey Microsoft is on with Standard Bank,
are looking to reduce their reliance on focus on innovation by leveraging the to bring innovation into every aspect of
their own datacenters and moving more respective skills of SAP and Microsoft the bank’s IT system and enable enriched
of their core workloads to the cloud. to transform the digitization and interactions with the bank’s customers.”
Sabelo Nkwanyana, Standard Bank’s CIO personalization journey for our customers,” The partnership brings together SAP and

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