Huawei

At the third New-Generation Internet Infrastructure Forum in Beijing, China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, China Electric Power Research Institute and Huawei said they would cooperate on the joint basic foresight innovation project about 5G power slicing technology.

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei and Hundsun Technologies jointly released an all-flash acceleration solution for centralised transaction systems powered on the new-gen OceanStor Dorado V3 AFAs and Hundsun UF2.0.

Huawei and Rohde & Schwarz announced the successful demonstration of 1.2Gbps LTE-A-Pro downlink throughput, using Huawei’s Kirin 970 SoC, the industry’s first smartphone SoC to support Category 18(1.2Gbps).

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei launched its X-Gen Wi-Fi Solution, enabling a three-fold bandwidth increase and four-fold increase in the number of concurrent access users.

At Huawei Connect 2017, Huawei and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) unveiled the ‘IIC-Huawei Ecosystem OpenLab’, announcing that through deep cooperation, both parties will promote the development of an industrial Internet ecosystem.

The Z-Wave Alliance, an open consortium of global companies deploying the Z-Wave smart home standard, announces the addition of ICT solutions provider, Huawei, to the Alliance board of directors.

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the connected wearables market. Shipments of connected wearables reached 96.5 million in 2016, up from 75.1 million devices in the previous year.

Huawei announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Festo to jointly explore the 5G network application of manufacturing and to promote the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry with 5G Slicing Technology.

Hyosung ITX, an IT unit of Hyosung Group, announced on July 11 that it recently concluded sales partnership with Huawei, China’s global networking equipment maker, to better serve the IT market.

WorldRemit, the digital money transfer company, has launched in Singapore. The new service will enable migrants in Singapore to transfer money to over 140 countries as easily as sending an instant message, using the WorldRemit app or website.

LTE for IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications S.A. announced that the first Huawei module based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform is now available.

u‑blox, a global provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced that it is partnering with key players of the IoT ecosystem, Huawei, Vivo, CAS Tecnologia and PinMyPet running lab and field tests inside new Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT or Cat NB1) networks in Brazil.

The latest real-world implementations advancing the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the role of standardisation in the projects were showcased by stakeholders from across the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and IoT industries as oneM2M, the global IoT standards initiative, held its inaugural Industry Day.

The embedded SIM (eSIM) market is projected to increase nearly nine-fold, from a relatively small base of 108.9 million shipments in 2016 to 986 million shipments in 2021. This is according to the latest research from IHS Markit.

A Catalyst entitled “A Platform for IoT and Anything as a Service” will take place on Wednesday, May 17 at 2:45pm, during TM Forum Live!, (May 15-18) in Nice, France.

During the recent Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2017 (HAS), Huawei focused on wireless network innovations in the 5G-oriented ‘all-cloud’ era.