By Emeka Aginam
Ahead of 2020 target year for launch of Fifth Generation, or 5G , Chinese original equipment manufacturer, Huawei said, it was seeking global partnership to build and expand the mobile industry ecosystem to become more resilient and ensure the success of the latest technology.

According to the technology giant, as a driving force to lead 5G innovation, Huawei has continued to extend the global partnership initiatives with more than 20 carriers, including CMCC, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, NTT DOCOMO, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Etisalat, and 10 industry partners, spanning continents in Asia, Europe, and North America.

The technology firm said it believed strongly that customer-oriented innovation with an open partnership was the foundation to create the next generation of wireless technologies.
According to Huawei, over the past years, it had established joint innovation programmes with leading operators, and conducted lab test and field trials with a broad spectrum of 5G enabling technologies.

At the just concluded Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, in partnership with foremost tech firms, it showcased technologies such as 5G New Radio Access Technologies.

The showcase of the technologies was done in a large scale field trial with NTT DOCOMO; 5G Full Duplex Radio Technology with China Mobile; 5G mobile architecture for the Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication applications with Vodafone; and extreme fast 5G mmWave technology at 70Gbps transmission speed, and end-to-end network slicing technologies with Deutsche Telekom.

Speaking on the achievements of the firm, Huawei Fellow, Wen Tong, said, “We will continue to focus our effort to 5G technology innovations. In the spirit of joint innovations with the entire ecosystem, we will strive to bring the 5G technologies into maturity and to deliver value to our customers and end users.”

According to him, “We are addressing some of the most challenging areas in 5G technologies, namely, the new air-interface with capability to meet the entire requirement for the 5G applications, the programmable application-driven-network architecture built on the cloud-native platform and a holistic set of the new capabilities to enable the vertical applications for emerging 5G services and applications.

“In addition, we are excited to participate the recent announcement of a series China 5G technologies field trial to contribute our effort to commercial 5G launch in 2020.”

In addition to what was showcased at MWC, Huawei collaborated with equipment vendor partners to validate 5G technologies such as Rohde Schwarz to demonstrate the 5G new waveform technologies.

Huawei said it also collaborated and with Aeroflex, a Cobham Company, to demonstrate the 5G grant free access technologies at MWC 2016.

It added that it also launched a number of programmes with vertical industries to explore the 5G-enabled machine type of communications such as massive sensors connectivity, URLLC with applications of self-drive-car and cloud controlled-robot.

“Industry-wide collaboration and partnership is a proven path to create a successful next generation wireless technologies. As an ICT industry leader, Huawei is expanding the global 5G innovation footprint.

“Huawei is making effort to leverage the early stage technology innovations and partnership to contribute the global standard,” the tech company said.