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Huawei unveils preparation for 'revolutionary' 5G at Innovation Day
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Li Jinge, President of Huawei Asia Pacific, delivers a speech during the opening of Asia Pacific Innovation Day on Nov. 2 in Sydney, Australia. (Courtesy of Huawei/File)
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uawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled the preparation for revolutionary 5G during Asia Pacific Innovation Day in Sydney early this month, targeting to roll out the “revolutionary technology” worldwide by 2020.
A collaboration between Huawei, the Committee for Sydney and the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN), the Innovation Day attracted 150 experts, researchers from many different industries, the government and journalists from the Asia Pacific and beyond.
In his speech at the event – which carried the theme “Brilliance of Exploration” –Li Jinge, President of Huawei Asia Pacific, said that future explorations in ICT would require input from all parties as there were many unknowns in creating an intelligent society.
The event, officially opened by Greg Hunt, Australia’s Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science through a video, presented 19 speakers from different industries, including Abdurazak Mudesir, Huawei’s Vice President of 5G Marketing Europe, who talked about 5G preparation.
Besides Mudesir, Charles Lawoko, the Director at the Industry Doctoral Training Centre at Australian Technology Networks Universities, talked about the application of data science, while Peter Lawther, the Chief Technology Officer for Fujitsu Oceania, delivered a presention about the Internet of Things (IoT).
Mudesir said for 5G the world had to prepare for better household access to Internet, which in 2015 stood at 300 million households having more than 10Mbps, 400 million having less than 10Mbps, and 1 billion households having no access.
By 2020, 5G needs 100 times faster traffic capacity, twice the number of wireless transmission sites, and 10 times the bandwidth compared to the present.
The “revolutionary” technology, he said, would fully connect the world and would usher in artificial intelligence, augmented reality/virtual reality known as AR/VR, hologram technology, and self-driving vehicles among other innovations. 5G will support machine-to-machine communication, called the Internet of Things, which has been projected to connect at least 20 billion devices by 2020.
