On September 13, the 10th Tianyi Intelligent Eco-Industry Summit Forum was held in Guangzhou. Yang Jie, Chairman of China Telecom, delivered a keynote speech entitled “Holding a New Era of Intelligence and Creating a New 5G Ecology”. Introduced the progress of China Telecom's transformation and upgrading over the past two years. It analyzes the new opportunities brought by the rapid development of digital economy and information technology to the information and communication industry, and puts forward the 'four-point proposition' of China Telecom's commitment to build 5G intelligent ecology.
Chairman Yang Jie clearly conveyed that under the new situation, China Telecom adhered to the positioning of integrated intelligent information service operators, strengthened the transformation and upgrading strategy, and actively laid out the 5G ecology, giving new meaning to the 'three-five circle'.
Create a 5G smart ecosystem
Chairman Yang Jie said that 5G is not only an important part of the network power, digital China, and smart society construction strategy, but also an inevitable choice for China Telecom to deepen its transformation and upgrading. During this smart ecological expo, China Telecom officially launched the Hello 5G Action Plan. The aim is to use the development of 5G to further promote network intelligence, business ecology, and operational intelligence, and strive to build a 5G smart ecosystem, which will give new meaning to the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
5G intelligent ecology involves standards and technological innovation, 5G network construction, 5G services and enabling platforms, 5G application scenarios, and 5G terminal development, etc., and requires relevant parties to work together. To this end, China Telecom proposes the following 'four-point proposition' :
Advocate one, jointly promote the maturity of 5G standards. China Telecom has been deeply involved in the formulation of 5G international standards, focusing on 5G services and business models, network intelligence, network convergence and other aspects of in-depth research, has been in the ITU, ETSI, 3GPP and other international The standards organization has led a number of standards development. China Telecom will always maintain close cooperation with industry chain partners and work together to promote the maturity of the 5G standard.
Advocate two, jointly build a 5G intelligent network. China Telecom first proposed the 'three clouds' 5G network architecture in the industry, which is composed of access cloud, control cloud and forwarding cloud. Access cloud to achieve service access and traffic absorption Control cloud to achieve centralized control of network functions and open capabilities, forward cloud to achieve high-speed traffic forwarding, direct traffic. Future 5G network is comprehensive cloud, application integration of intelligent new network, based on NFV/SDN architecture, support network slicing, edge New features such as calculations. China Telecom will set up a 5G innovation center to do a good job in 5G research and innovation; build a 5G demonstration project, conduct 17 city scale trials; accelerate the preparations according to the overall plan, and strive to achieve 5G scale commercialization by 2020.
Advocating three, jointly innovating 5G application mode. 5G is application-oriented, China Telecom will work with you to create new power, new model and new height of 5G application. In application cooperation, strengthen solid-mobile convergence, cloud network integration, To foster a new driving force for 5G applications, the 5G Application Innovation Alliance will be established during the year, and a 5G application cooperation white paper will be released to focus on strengthening cooperation with industry benchmarking companies to effectively aggregate industry strength. In application innovation, fully integrate and share with 5G development. From connection to connection, realize the interconnection of everything; from content to application, focus more on the consumption scene; from product to service, pay more attention to the provision of the overall solution, and then create a new model of 5G application. In the application expansion, together with the alliance members to create ' Higher, faster, stronger's series of enhanced mobile broadband applications, general-purpose innovative applications such as ultra-high-definition video, and vertical industry applications such as smart cities, promoting consumption upgrades, dual-innovation upgrades, industrial upgrades, and driving the development of 5G applications New height.
Advocating four, common prosperity 5G terminal industry. China Telecom will highlight the characteristics of 'large bandwidth, large connectivity, quasi-real-time' to accelerate the diversification of 5G terminals. In the 5G era, China Telecom continued to adhere to 5G full Netcom, innovative pan-smart development strategy, Pay more attention to AI empowerment, experience enhancement, protocol interoperability, security enhancement, and create a broader space for the industry in the fields of chips/modules, RF antennas, full Netcom terminals, and smart applications. China Telecom will unite terminal chips, brand manufacturers, Instrument manufacturers, etc., set up a 5G terminal R&D alliance, released China Telecom 5G terminal white paper 1.0, and launched industry terminal research.
In the prospect of 5G ecological cooperation, Chairman Yang Jie proposed that 5G will be guided by user needs, supported by cutting-edge and emerging technological innovations, bringing new business forms and creating huge commercial value. China Telecom will continue to open up. With the heart, work together with industry partners, carry out in-depth cooperation in the business, channels, terminals, network and capital, embrace the new era of intelligence, create a new 5G ecosystem, and win new value in the future!
'Ecological tree'
Two years ago, in order to comply with the development of the intelligent era, China Telecom officially released the transformation and upgrading strategy (ie, transformation 3.0) based on the first two rounds of strategic transformation. Through network intelligence, business ecology, operational intelligence, and expansion of comprehensive intelligent information. Service, build a strong network, serve the community and people's livelihood.
In the past two years, the network has been intelligently promoted in an orderly manner. In 2016, China Telecom launched the CTNet 2025 network reconfiguration plan to promote the intelligent evolution of the network. At present, China Telecom's mobile 4G network, fiber broadband network and Internet of Things and other 'three boutiques The network has been basically completed. At the same time, it has achieved phased results in the introduction of new technologies such as SDN, NFV, and cloud network integration. For example, SDN is deployed in the main cloud resource pool, and the network configuration period in the resource pool has been Shortened from week to minute.
In the past two years, the business ecologicalization has achieved remarkable results. China Telecom has always advocated the concept of “sharing, creating, and co-prospering”. At present, the five business ecosystems have achieved gratifying results. The data shows that users of intelligent connections (mobile + broadband + fixed line) The scale has exceeded 570 million, the number of smart home users exceeds 110 million, the monthly average active users of internet finance reached 38 million, the number of DICT service government and enterprise customers reached 23 million, and the number of Internet of Things users exceeded 80 million.
In the past two years, the basis of operational intelligence has been solidified. China Telecom's enterprise mid-station architecture has been initially established. Currently, there are 650 APIs packaged, and the average daily call is nearly 200 million times. Enterprise Zhongtai internal assistance precision management, precise marketing, fine Services, lean network transport and other 'four fine' applications, effectively improve the company's operational capabilities; foreign cooperation has achieved a little access, has more than 100 partners including Ali, Tencent, etc., the number of cooperation platforms exceeds 220, Together to provide customers with a variety of smart applications.
In the past two years, the ecological cooperation has been extensive. Today, there are 545 members of the terminal industry alliance, the cooperation rate of social channels is more than 50%, the members of the smart home industry alliance are nearly 300, and the wings payment cooperation merchants are more than 6.5 million. The application market has introduced more than 50 partners, and the Tianyi IOT Industry Alliance has reached 350 members. At the same time, the investment system of 'three major fund platforms + three direct investment platforms' has been established, and capital cooperation has been actively carried out.
Under the support of various industry alliances and various industrial partners, China Telecom's 'ecological tree' is becoming more and more prosperous and fruitful.
New situation and new role
Looking forward to the future, Chairman Yang Jie said that the network letter business is promising. The network letter business represents new productivity and new development direction, especially the booming digital economy provides a rare historical opportunity for the development of information and communication industry, such as artificial Intelligent, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, edge computing, smart home, Internet of Things, 5G (ABCDEHI5G) and other rapid development of information technology has provided the source of industrial upgrading.
Without informatization, there will be no modernization. Without cyber security, there will be no national security. China Telecom will not forget its original intentions and be brave enough to become a builder of network infrastructure, a network security maintainer, a network information carrier, and information integration. Promoter, the participants of the network of military and civilian integration (ie 'five' responsibility).
