Huawei unveils Artificial Intelligence by releasing PoleStar2.0 to Accelerate Smart City Deployment

Huawei released PoleStar2.0 at the 2018 Global Mobile Broadband Forum. As the infrastructure in smart cities, PoleStar2.0 supports a diverse range of services on a single pole, including 5G mobile communication, smart lighting, smart monitoring, Internet of Things (IoT), smart environmental protection, and city information release. PoleStar2.0 features open physical ports, modular device installation, a component-based structure design, and an open service platform. This solution helps to lower the manufacturing costs for smart poles and facilitates long-term evolution, accelerating the deployment of smart cities and 5G networks.

As the process of informatization is quickly accelerating in many cities around the world, requirements of smart cities have become major driving forces for the rapid advancement of the smart pole industry. These requirements include smart municipal administration, Safe City, and smart transportation. Traditionally, a new service requires the deployment of an additional pole. This will potentially increase the number of poles on streets and impede pole deployment. Improvement of smart pole investment efficiency and simplification of the deployment of smart poles are two considerable challenges currently facing the industry. A new round of ICT opportunities created by 5G also bring about significant challenges regarding operators' site deployment. Acquiring a large number of site locations at a low cost will be a major challenge for smart city development.

Huawei PoleStar2.0 is a new innovative solution that is uniquely designed to resolve the challenges of low investment smart pole efficiency and arduous site deployment. This is a cutting-edge smart city infrastructure solution that supports a diverse range of services on a single pole, including 5G mobile communication, smart lighting, smart monitoring, IoT, smart environmental protection, and city information release. PoleStar2.0 features an open pole design and poles can be locally manufactured and provided in batches, helping to lower manufacturing and supply costs. PoleStar2.0 also features standard interfaces on poles, allowing for flexible service interconnection and expansion. Additional components, such as cameras and sensors, can be connected to standard ports on poles to support flexible functionality expansion, facilitating the long-term evolution of smart cities. In addition, PoleStar2.0 supports open service interfaces. Standard APIs allow third-party applications to access the PoleStar2.0 cloud platform and provide commercial services, improving the monetization capability of smart poles.

PoleStar2.0 reserves standard base station interfaces for operators. Large-scale introduction of PoleStar2.0 during smart pole deployment will allow smart poles to interconnect with 5G base station modules and provide a large number of 5G site locations. This facilitates rapid, on-demand 5G deployment and significantly lowers site deployment costs for all operators. PoleStar2.0 also promotes sharing among operators, municipal departments, and smart service providers, allowing all parties to share the deployment cost and achieve win-win cooperation.

Huawei Releases the Autonomous Driving Mobile Network Solution MAE

[London, United Kingdom, November 26, 2018] Huawei's first wireless automation roundtable was held during the 2018 GMBBF. Huawei officially released the Mobile Automation Engine (MAE) solution, which accelerates full-scenario autonomous driving in mobile networks.The OPEX of telecom operators remains high currently. With the advent of 5G, mobile operators will face the coexistence of multiple RATs (including GSM, UMTS, LTE, and NR) for a long period of time. Network becomes much more complex, posing many challenges to network O&M, performance improvement, and user experience assurance. The industry has reached consensus that network automation is essential to reduce OPEX.
"Drawing on the concept of autonomous driving levels, telecom operators need to approach full network automation by-scenario and by-level based on the O&M workflow," said Zhou Yuefeng, CMO of Huawei Wireless Solution. He continued, "Huawei recently released the white paper Key Scenarios of Autonomous Driving Mobile Network, which describes seven key scenarios, such as base station deployment and network performance improvement, to unify industry consensus and gradually realize automation of these key scenarios.

The MAE solution carries three major concepts:

 All-Scenario Oriented, AI Inside, and Autonomy by Layer (3A).

• All-Scenario Oriented: Network operation transfers from NE-oriented to scenario-oriented.
• AI Inside: AI capabilities are introduced to build an intelligent engine that converges management and control, endowing the network with new capabilities, such as scenario awareness and identification, network prediction, and self-learning.
• Autonomy by Layer: Closed-loop autonomy is used to shield the various scenarios and enable efficient collaboration. Customers only need to focus on intentions and policies

It is worth mentioning that Huawei's first wireless automation roundtable attracted a wide range of participants from industry partners, including operators, associations, and analyst organizations. It is agreed that all parties should make full use of their advantages and collaborate together to make network automation a reality.

"Huawei's MAE solution has shown its values in some key scenarios through the practice with our customers, bringing confidence to the industry," said Zhou. He concluded, "Let us accelerate the application of AI in mobile networks, jointly promote autonomous driving networks, and embrace the fully connected, intelligent world."

Together with industry partners GSMA and GTI, the 2018 Global Mobile Broadband Forum hosted by Huawei was held in London, UK on November 19-21, 2018, when global operators, regulators, and vertical operators will be invited. Industry partners, as well as media and analysts gathered to discuss the development of the mobile industry