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CommScope, a leader in infrastructure for the communications industry, has undergone 40 years of innovation and growth, and during the four decades that CommScope has gone through three major mergers and acquisitions, it can be argued that the three mergers and acquisitions made CommScope a very large : In 2004, CommScope merged Avaya Enterprise; in 2007, CommScope acquired Andrew Telecom, now the CommScope Suzhou Plant; and acquired TE Connectivity's Broadband Networks business in 2015. CommScope China Shi Zhihong, vice president of district operations, said: "After experiencing these three mergers and acquisitions, both optical connection and copper connection, both wired and wireless networks, CommScope has corresponding solutions and are very cutting-edge solutions '
Currently, CommScope has approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, located in various parts of the world, and China has also been a key market for CommScope's technology research and testing.It is reported that CommScope's first factory in Suzhou was originally by Andrew Telecom in 1997 Was established and put into operation, followed by CommScope in Suzhou in 2004 to set up a second factory, the current two factories a total of about 4,000 employees.In addition, CommScope also has a factory in Wuxi.
CommScope's multiple plants in China work together to produce and deliver infrastructure solutions that include base station antennas, microwave antennas, twisted pair copper cables and distributed antenna systems to support wireless, telecom, broadband and enterprise in China and around the world Network operators.And recently, at the CommScope Suzhou factory 20 anniversary media meeting, a number of CommScope executives also shared with the media, CommScope's status quo in China, as well as the future direction of development.
Help Chinese operators smooth transition to 5G network
Ben Cardwell, senior vice president of CommScope Mobile Solutions, said: 'China's development is very exciting. We know that 2G is Europe-led, 3G is US-led, 4G is Asia's first rise, and in the 5G era, China will become Dominant force.We CommScope is also committed to helping operators smooth transition to 5G network, and the best platform is in China. '
In fact, according to the forecast of the China Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 5G will create 8 million jobs in China by 2025, and will contribute 3% of China's GDP. At CommScope's view, the industry is actively promoting the 5G business with three major businesses Reasons: First of all, 5G network can create more bandwidth for users; at the same time, mobile operators are also trying their best to find more sources of revenue from customers. In addition, now we need to establish more interconnection between more devices Interoperability, interoperability between machinery and equipment will be an important trend.
As we all know, 5G network has three basic applications: enhanced broadband, Internet of Things and ultra-low latency.In the face of this new demand, operators are also through three key strategies to help their network to prepare for a new generation of needs According to Ben Cardwell, the so-called 5G can actually be understood as 'network of networks', and the most basic network among this 'network of networks' is 4G. That is to say, before deploying 5G networks, operators must first Make sure the 4G network is very efficient and optimized.
Based on this, operators should not wait until tomorrow to develop a 5G network, and now it is time to start making great efforts to improve the 4G network.According to Ben Cardwell, CommScope has three key strategies in promoting the evolution of 5G operators: densification, virtualization Optimization and optimization
China is a key market for CommScope's technology research and development and testing
As mentioned earlier, China has been a key market for CommScope's R & D and testing, what important breakthroughs have the CommScope plant made since its establishment 20 years ago in terms of R & D and testing?
First of all, from a technology research perspective, Ben Cardwell shared that in the past 20 years, the technology of radio frequency has become more and more complicated. In particular, the transition from 2G to 3G, the transition to 4G, and the transition to the upcoming 5G , The technology of radio frequency is more and more complicated. "As CommScope, we must continue to innovate in order to keep pace with the times." CommScope Suzhou factory developed the first antenna in the history of 16-port base station; In addition, CommScope also developed integrated antenna One of the active components is the filter, which CommScope does, and only to provide such a complete integrated antenna product solution to create the best wireless network.
Tang Junyi, vice president of Greater China and South Korea Region of CommScope operator network, added that CommScope has always been the leader and innovation, and from 3G to 4G and the advent of 5G in the future, the wireless bandwidth will be more and more widely and the quality assurance Will be more and more important.In the past in the 2G and 3G era, the installation of outdoor antennas are workers to climb up the scene to the joints, cables, waterproof well in the 4G network, sometimes can not guarantee a unified quality So if we assemble these all in the factory, quality is guaranteed, even where development is not as good as China.
In addition, CommScope has also invested a great deal in testing because it is a crucial step, Ben Cardwell said, 'The tests can be broadly divided into two types, the first is experimental testing, and That is to say, it cooperates with operators to test the performance of products at different frequencies on site. The second one is the test conducted in the factory R & D environment. We also invested heavily in the Suzhou factory to build related tests The facilities.
CommScope's extensive presence in China also includes research and development facilities in Shanghai and Suzhou, as well as sales offices in major cities in China Finally, CommScope said it will strive to increase the automation of its global manufacturing network in the future to improve The quality, efficiency and speed of operations staff.