Banning Huawei from the global market will not only limit operators' choice of suppliers, but also inhibit the entire industry value chain's technology Innovation, ABI Research Research Director Dimitris Mavrakis said on Monday.
He wrote that Huawei's success and market progress is now a controversial topic, with critics arguing that the leading telecoms equipment company is supported by the Chinese government, while several telecom operators said it is innovating in the industry and providing better customer support.
It is worth noting that most of the criticism comes not from customers, partners or even competitors, but from certain governments, politicians.
The line between these two opposing viewpoints represents a very delicate balance, which currently depends on many key issues, such as the geopolitical and security situation. Politics, existing vendor relationships and the state of the 5G market, and disinformation also distort this discussion.
In any case, Huawei has been a 4G and 5G technology giant, with undisputed expertise in both technologies. advanced capabilities, but most importantly, in the implementation of these networks.
Dimitris noted that Huawei is one of the major players in the 3GPP and a major player in 4G and 5G. One of the largest patent holders.
Network implementation is now even more important, and Huawei has demonstrated its expertise, professionalism and collaborative approach in a number of cases.
In 2007, Huawei developed the SingleRAN concept in a joint innovation lab with Vodafone. This concept breaks down a cellular base station into a Baseband Unit (BBU) at the base of the tower and an RF Telescoping Unit (RFDU) adjacent to the antenna.
Previously, the baseband unit and the RF unit were located at the transmitter tower and connected to the antenna by RF cables, which resulted in very high wiring costs and signal loss, as well as power inefficiencies.
On the other hand, SingleRAN provides the ability to share baseband resources across multiple generations, including 2G, 3G, and 4G. and this is now an industry standard that all vendors are offering.
Huawei pioneered the CloudAIR concept in November 2017, allowing 4G and 5G The spectrum is shared between systems. This is very similar to the concept of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), which is being commercially deployed in 5G deployments.
Huawei is not the only company developing this technology, with many 3GPP participants contributing to the commercial development of DSS. Huawei has contributed, but it was arguably the first company to identify the need for spectrum sharing between generations of cellular networks.
Huawei also announced the 64T64R Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output active Antenna Unit (AAU), which can support up to 400MHz bandwidth in the 3.5GHz band, breaking through the The limits of RF device, power amplifier and system design.
This AAU is designed to support mobile operators that have discontinuous 5G spectrum in the band. There may not be many operators in the market facing this situation, but it's another sign of Huawei's ongoing efforts to meet customer needs.
Huawei is also the only company to have developed both a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network capability and a chipset in the early commercial phase, thus bringing cellular IoT capabilities to several vertical industry sectors.
Dimitris writes that these innovations are just a few examples of Huawei's new products and solutions, which the vendor disclosed in the There are more plans in the pipeline for technology and implementation.
This demonstrates that Huawei is a major player in the deployment of 5G technologies and networks, including consumer-based outdoor networks and industrial applications. .
Barring Huawei from entering the global market would not only limit operators' choice of suppliers, but could force them to rely on dual oligopolies. A monopoly or even a monopoly will also inhibit technological innovation throughout the industrial value chain.
