On March 29th, the China Ultra-High-Definition Video Industry Development Conference was held in Guangzhou. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration of Radio, and the People's Government of Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Provincial Commission of Economics and Information Technology and the Guangdong Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television , Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration, Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute and China Ultra High Definition Video Industry Alliance. At the meeting, China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'China Telecom') General Manager Liu Aili, China Mobile Li Yue, General Manager of Communication Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as 'China Mobile'), and Lu Yimin, General Manager of China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'China Unicom') analyzed the operator's layout in the ultra-high-definition industry and conducted ultra-high definition video Outlook for the development of business and smart terminals. Liu Aili: China Telecom builds a large video application ecosystem
As of now, China Telecom has a total subscriber base of more than 600 million, of which broadband users are 160 million, IPTV users are over 100 million, 4K users are over 45 million, and IPTV subscribers are growing at an annual rate of 43.8%. Overseas, China Telecom has built a global IP network. Network and high-speed transmission network, IDC and CDN networks distributed globally; 4G mobile networks, optical broadband network and IoT three excellent networks are established in the country, with the capability of providing high-speed broadband access of 200M or more, and continuing to promote optical bandwidth. The convergence of mobile and IPTV development. China Telecom's general manager Liu Aili points out that China Telecom focuses on three aspects of network intelligence, service ecology, and operation intelligence to promote enterprise transformation, and continue to promote scale development in the field of ultra-broadband to meet future information development. Needs. In terms of network intelligence, China Telecom further promotes intelligent network reconstruction, vigorously promotes a smart operation system, and strives to create software definitions based on general-purpose devices. It is an open, fast and flexible new network. It is expected that by 2025, 80% of network functions are virtualized, scale provides on-demand network services, and a next-generation operating system is built to fully realize network intelligence. According to Liu Aili, China Telecom positioned the video business as a strategic basic business, built a large-scale video application ecosystem based on extreme experience and in-depth content, and focused on three areas of work: The first was to lead the industry consensus in the 4K technology and application standards. Develop industry 4K technology and industry development paths, promote the standardization of 4K content distribution networks and platforms, lead 4K quality maintenance and user experience standards; second, scale deployment of 4K IPTV set-top boxes, with over 45 million users on the network; and 3 actively cooperate Enhance content operations. At the same time, China Telecom actively plans the application scenarios of smart homes to promote the construction of a smart home ecosystem. First is the layout gateway, set-top box, and the entrance of the three smart homes of APP; the second is to create smart networking, family cloud, The smart home components and other advantageous products will have a net increase of 50 million users or more in 2018. The third is to build an open platform for smart home capabilities, opening up capacity and ecological connectivity, and build a smart family industry ecosystem. In the next three years, China Telecom will build ultra-high speed in Guangdong. All-optical network and 4K video transmission network. 4K video service is guaranteed through four key measures. The IPTV platform has been upgraded intelligently to help new services to go online quickly through the agile architecture. Second, the CDN is fully sinking to the edge of the network to achieve converged content distribution, thereby building a large concurrent, low-latency, high-quality 4K network. Third, the backbone network. Upgrade the transmission to terabytes to realize intelligent scheduling. The bearer network is changed into two layers, and the flattening reduces the delay. Fourth, the terminal is upgraded again. The data probe mechanism improves playback quality through packet loss retransmission. The AI intelligent terminal is launched. It stated that China Telecom is willing to join hands with industry partners to deepen industrial cooperation and achieve win-win results. In terms of technical standards, China Telecom is willing to continuously iterate 4K set-top boxes, 4K IPTV TVs, and 4K service standards with its members to jointly lead the development of the industry; In terms of business, China Telecom will further open up and cooperate to build a new family of smart homes in areas such as big video, smart networking, smart home, and family big data. In terms of content cooperation, China Telecom adheres to legally compliant introduction of content, enriching content In the field of smart operations, China Telecom will continue to build smart middle offices, open up big data and business platform capabilities, and jointly build a 4K industrial ecosystem. China Mobile will purchase 55 million 4K set-top boxes this year
China Mobile has provided the world's largest network and user portal in terms of wireless, built a 4G ultra-large network with 1.9 million base stations, and implemented carrier-aggregation technology to achieve a peak rate of 220 Mbps and can carry 4K video, and 660 million 4G users can Watch high-definition mobile video. On the wired side, including rural remote areas, China Mobile’s broadband network has reached 74% of households, 95% of which can be fiber-optic home. Li Yue said that China Mobile currently pushes 100M bandwidth to meet users’ needs. Demand for 4K video, such as Guangdong, Sichuan, and Fujian provincial companies launched 4K video services in 2016, and Guangdong realized full 4K services in 2017. China Mobile has achieved breakthroughs in end-to-end boutique network construction and achieved 4K video. No user experience, no screen, no user experience, will promote Gigabit broadband this year, increase user bandwidth by another 10 times, and create favorable conditions for the overall development of 4K services. Li Yue said that with network coverage and quality With the promotion, China Mobile’s '4G change of life' has become a reality. Users can watch videos and switch between screens at anytime, anywhere. China Mobile will be from the platform side. At the same time as the user side, the content is more secure and compliant. On the platform side, China Mobile and CCTV jointly built a manageable and controllable 4G broadcast and control platform that integrates CCTV, local TV stations, and Internet video content. Audiovisual content across the Internet, cross-platform, multi-screen broadcast across the screen. On the user's side, China Mobile gives each family member big data tags, online and offline linkage, and the precise delivery of video content. According to Li Yue, 42 million smart homes The gateway has already entered the family, and China Mobile plans to purchase 100 million smart home gateways from 2017 to 2019. It now appears that this goal is expected to be completed in advance; the number of set-top boxes that users activate has exceeded 67 million, of which 95% are 4K set-top boxes. In 2018, China Mobile will purchase 50 million set-top boxes, all of which are 4K smart set-top boxes. It is estimated that by 2020, only annual shipments of self-owned branded smart hardware of China Mobile will reach 157 million units, which will drive the total annual shipments of upstream and downstream smart hardware in the industry chain. It will reach 1.8 billion units. Through new forms of interactive portals such as artificial intelligence cloud, China Mobile can use traditional high-definition video to Hui Video's approach enables individuals, families, and verticals to expand high-definition video applications. Set-top boxes that incorporate smart speaker functionality will be even more convenient. With far-field pickup technology, users can wake up set-top boxes without having to pick up the remote control. Li Yue said that the nature of the video business is content. After 15 years of operational accumulation, China Mobile has brought together more than 7,100 content partners, tens of millions of content sources, and created industry value of more than 23 billion yuan, creating a win-win cooperation. In the future, Li Yue said that China Mobile will rely on the Ultra High-Definition Video Laboratory to work together with all parties to jointly build an open, cooperative, and win-win ecosystem and make greater contribution to the development of the industry. He pointed out that Guangdong is a bridgehead for China’s 4K development. China Mobile has set up an ultra high-definition video laboratory in Guangdong, and MIDI, Research Institutes, and Guangdong companies will also participate in the work of the UHD Video Industry Alliance. During the 13th Five-year Plan period, China Mobile will invest 100 billion yuan in Guangdong to improve infrastructure construction. Currently, 10 million broadband subscribers and 5 million 4K TV subscribers On the basis of vigorously promoting 100Mbps, Gigabit broadband and 4K services, Guangdong Mobile will also actively exert its scale and technological advantages to create a 4K ultimate experience for its customers. At the same time, in conjunction with the Guangdong situation, it will launch a 4K business with Guangdong features such as Lingnan Life and Guangdong Health. Application, and cooperation with Huawei, ZTE, and Nan Guang Media, etc., to actively promote the development of 4K new formats. He believes that under the impetus of 4K development, 8K, naked-eye 3D, virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR), etc. Video services will accelerate. Li Yue said that only by accelerating the advent of the 5G era can we better meet more and more 'cool' business demands. The 5G rate will be 10 to 100 times that of 4G, and the airtime delay will be One-fifth of 4G, 5G will serve more rich HD video service scenarios with a better network. In 2018, China Mobile plans to conduct 5G scale trials and application demonstrations in 17 cities, and conduct pre-commercial scale trials in 2019. Welcome to the first group of friendly users. By 2020, 5G will officially enter commercial use, and will be ready for the 4K development and Beijing Olympic Winter Games broadcast. Lu Yimin: China Unicom will build Ultra HD video service represented by 4K/VR.
Lu Yimin, general manager of China Unicom, pointed out in his keynote speech that 'information video, video ultra-high-definition' has become a major trend in the development of the information industry. From a growth and scale perspective, the global compound annual growth rate of Internet video traffic reached 31%. All kinds of video traffic accounts for more than 80% of the total Internet video traffic. From the perspective of technology evolution, video has entered the 4K from SDTV and HD, and is about to enter the 8K Ultra HD era, and gradually evolved into AR, VR, and Holography; In the Internet domain, the home Internet has taken the lead in achieving 4K ultra-high-definition, and the mobile Internet and industrial Internet are also moving toward high-definition and ultra-high-definition. Lu Yimin believes that operators are the engines that help the ultra-high-definition video industry continue to upgrade. Operators have passed The upgrading of platform capabilities, the evolution of the fixed network, and the richness of terminal applications are gradually transforming from traditional services such as voice and data to new services such as video transmission, operation, and quality assurance, thereby promoting chip technologies, content applications, and terminal manufacturing. The restructuring and upgrading of industrial chain links such as platform operations. In recent years, China Unicom has continued to promote platforms, networks, and networks. , Operational capacity upgrades. In terms of video cloud, China Unicom is based on WoerCloud, and is focused on platform, computing, storage, application, management and other open video cloud capabilities, and promotes the establishment of ultra-high definition represented by 4K, 8K, VR and AR. The video proposed high bandwidth, high speed, low latency, and high reliability of network bearer requirements. In terms of fixed-line broadband, an all-optical broadband network was established, with Gigabit home, and 10-Gigabit-to-building broadband capabilities. And the public users provide high-bandwidth, high-speed, high-quality broadband products. In terms of mobile networks, they actively promote 5G R&D experiments, and start pilot projects in 12 provinces and cities during the year. They are expected to complete trial commercial deployment in 2019 and formal commercial use in 2020. In terms of video terminals, China Unicom adheres to the concept of 'open cooperation' and works together with industry chain partners to promote the rapid development of terminals and applications. Joint industry partners such as chips and terminals jointly publish ultra-high-definition chips, ultra-high-definition set-top boxes and many other products. Technical specifications and white papers promote the technological upgrading and standardization of the ultra-high definition terminal industry. In terms of operations, China Unicom has established a focused business operation with an intensive model. Video companies, and 4K laboratories focusing on technology research and development. In the future, China Unicom’s ultra-high definition video technology R&D center will be based on 4K laboratories and will undertake end-to-end R&D of China Unicom’s ultra-high definition video technology, as well as new video products. Business Innovation Incubation. Lu Yimin stated that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is coming soon. China Unicom will use innovative applications, rich products and services for the Olympics, hundreds of millions of viewers around the world, full-end, full-scene, and ultra-clear 8K Olympics. visual feast.
