Road to the future: Huawei launches first 5.5G Intelligent Core Network

Barcelona: At the grand inauguration of the Mobile World Congress (MWC24), an electrifying new product solution event was hosted by Huawei. George Gao, President of Huawei's Cloud Core Network Product Line, unveiled the groundbreaking 5.5G intelligent core network solution.
This year marks a monumental milestone in the realm of telecommunications with the advent of 5.5G, heralding a new era of commercialisation. The 5.5G intelligent core network, a cornerstone of this technological evolution, weaves together the threads of service, network, and Operation and Maintenance (O&M) intelligence, promising to elevate the realms of business value and developmental prospects to unprecedented heights.
The previous year witnessed the pioneering deployment of New Calling, reaching an impressive milestone by catering to over 50mn subscribers sprawled across 31 provinces in China. Its success didn't just stop at the borders of China; it extended its verification credentials to regions including Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific, setting the stage for its commercial debut in these territories within the year.
Gao introduced Huawei's New Calling-Advanced solution, a trailblazer in the industry boasting enhanced intelligence and data channel-based interaction capabilities. This innovation is a leap towards the dawn of a multi-modal communication era, offering telecom operators a golden opportunity to revolutionise their service frameworks.
In a bid to enrich the calling experience, Huawei also lifted the curtains on its Multi-modal Communication Function (MCF). This cutting-edge feature empowers users to animate digital avatars with their voice during calls, introducing a layer of personalisation never seen before. Enterprises are not left behind; they can tailor-make their own digital ambassadors, leveraging this for brand promotion like never before.
The quest for traffic monetisation on mobile broadband (MBB) networks has been long and arduous for operators. They faced three formidable technical chasms: inaccessible user experience, lack of dynamic optimisation, and absence of closed-loop operations. Huawei’s answer to these challenges is the pioneering Intelligent Personalised Experience (IPE) solution, designed to enable operators to weave experience privileges into service offerings, thereby unlocking new avenues for monetising differentiated experiences.
Traditionally, the core network's user plane would handle each service flow with a single virtual CPU (vCPU), struggling under the weight of high-demand services like 2K or 4K HD video and live streaming. This often leads to vCPU overload and resultant packet loss. Huawei's response is the revolutionary Intelligent user-defined graphic (UDG. This industry-first solution promises a seamless 10 Gbps experience across the board.
The introduction of the Digital Assistant & Digital Expert (DAE), powered by the multi-modal large model, is set to transform O&M from a traditional "experts+tools" model to an intelligence-driven "DAE+manual assistance" paradigm. This innovation is poised to automate 80% of trouble tickets, a significant leap from the erstwhile fully manual processes. Moreover, DAE champions intent-driven O&M, sidelining manual decision-making.
In an era where expert cultivation in a domain could stretch over five years, the multi-modal large model stands out with its ability to be trained and updated in mere weeks.
With the launch of 5.5G in 2024, Huawei is embarking on a collaborative journey with operators and partners globally, aiming to spearhead novel innovations in networks, cloud, and intelligence. This collective endeavour is set to catalyse the 5G business landscape and nurture a vibrant industry ecosystem, paving the way for an intelligent digital transformation that promises to redefine the future.