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Huawei to exhibit its digital innovations at CEBIT 2018
NEW DELHI: From June 11 to June 15, Huawei will be at CEBIT 2018 exhibiting its digital innovations under the theme of “Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation”.
During the event, Huawei will introduce its new vision, technologies, platform, and ecosystem developments, while playing the “digital transformation symphony” with more than a hundred customers and partners.
Digital transformation has become an imperative for all enterprises and just like a symphony, it demands all technologies work together in harmony to drive innovation and growth. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, Huawei’s exhibition booth at CEBIT 2018 will showcase the latest ICT products across cloud computing, IoT, AI, Big Data, and digital platforms; as well as an upgraded data center, enterprise campus, eLTE, and enterprise communications solutions.
These solutions are used in diverse sectors such as Smart Cities, airports, finance, energy, and manufacturing. In addition, Huawei will share its best practices in digital transformation and explore the future digital world with guests, helping to shape the digital transformation symphony.
Playing a Digital Transformation Symphony at CEBIT
Yan Lida, president of Huawei Enterprise BG, said: “As a shining pearl of European music, Germany is the birthplace of composers of great symphonies. Digital transformation can be viewed as a symphony, where Huawei works in harmony with its customers and partners through cloud-pipe-device coordination. At this CEBIT, Huawei’s visual identity is the digital transformation symphony.
Based on our global best practices in various industries, we work with customers and partners to showcase Huawei’s digital platforms, our partners’ applications and terminals, as well as customer benefits from digital transformation. Together, we will play the digital transformation symphony.
Every enterprise will be digital in the future, building its own platform or becoming a part of the platform. Huawei Enterprise BG is committed to building innovative, open, digital platforms, helping organizations achieve information technologies (IT) and operational technologies (OT) convergence, as well as the technology and business convergence. We hope to bring digital to every organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.”
“Industry & Ecosystem” and “Technology” exhibition areas highlight Huawei’s digital platform capabilities
In the Industry & Ecosystem areas, Huawei is collaborating with more than one hundred alliance and solution partners including SAP, Honeywell, and Accenture, to showcase innovative solutions and successful deployments. These solutions and deployments cover six major industries: Smart City, finance, manufacturing, electric power, transportation, and retail. As an example, Huawei is for the first time presenting a Smart City digital platform.
The platform includes five basic resource coordination capabilities for IoT, Big Data, a Geographic Information System (GIS) map, video cloud, and converged communications.
These capabilities enable cities to efficiently share various basic resources with ecosystem partners to facilitate application development and deployment, and support city governance innovation.
The Smart Airport 2.0 Solution, based on new ICT, such as IoT, cloud computing, and Big Data, is also being showed for the first time at CEBIT. The solution is designed to improve airport information flows while ensuring airport security to increase operational efficiency and enhance the passenger experience throughout the entire boarding process.
In the Technology area, Huawei is presenting its latest products and solutions built on IoT, cloud, AI, 5G, and other cutting-edge technologies. They include an Industry-oriented Intent-driven Network (IDN) solution, a next-generation enterprise-class full-stack private cloud solution, the hybrid cloud solution for Azure Stack, an upgraded IoT platform, the enhanced enterprise wireless IoT solution, the latest hybrid cloud solution, and a newly released software-defined camera based on AI.
This is the first time Huawei demonstrates its complete Cloud Data Center solutions, covering energy, IT, and network areas; solutions include a next-generation converged private cloud solution, an intent-driven CloudFabric Cloud Data Center network solution, FusionInsight LibrA distributed data warehouse, and more.
Moreover, Huawei is demonstrating its AI- and Big Data-based campus solution, which supports diverse scenarios access and full-lifecycle cloud management, achieving automatic and smart network-wide security.
Huawei works with leading industry customers and partners to orchestrate the digital transformation symphony
In the next three decades, digitization will reshape every industry, and intelligence will have a profound impact on every enterprise. Industry’s leading enterprises are pioneers in digital transformation and currently, 197 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, including 45 of the top 100, have chosen Huawei as their digital transformation partner.
At CEBIT 2018, Huawei is announcing new partnerships with some of these leading companies to accelerate digital transformation:
Huawei and Duisburg in Germany jointly release “Rhine Cloud” for future Smart City development. Both parties agree to digitize public service systems and reform government departments to build modern city infrastructures and operational modes.
Huawei and Microsoft launch the Azure Stack hybrid cloud solution.
Huawei and Marlon sign MoU and launch AI-enabled retail solution.
Huawei, InfoVista and ARM jointly build and launch SD-WAN open ecosystem and SD-WAN joint solution.
At CEBIT 2018, Huawei will collaborate with partners to introduce a sonata of technology, drive an ecosystem minuet and address customers’ variations of transformation. Together, they will orchestrate a grand symphony of digital transformation.
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, India’s telecommunications services provider, today announced the launch of its ultra-fast 5G services in 125 cities. Airtel 5G Plus service is now available to customers in over 265 cities in the country.
Airtel 5G Plus has three compelling advantages for customers. First, it runs on a technology that has the widest acceptance in the world with the most developed ecosystem. This ensures that all 5G smartphones in India seamlessly work on the Airtel network. Second, the company promises to deliver the best experience – between 20 to 30 times higher speeds than today coupled with brilliant voice experience and super-fast call connect. Finally, Airtel 5G Plus network will also be kinder to the environment with its special power reduction solution. Powered by the reliable Airtel network infrastructure, Airtel 5G Plus will provide superfast access to High-Definition video streaming, gaming, multiple chatting, instant uploading of photos et all.
Commenting on the launch, Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel said, “5G has revolutionized the world of internet, ushering new era of connectivity and communications that will prove to be a game-changer for the country. At Airtel, we remain committed to delivering the highest quality of network and service to our customers as we roll-out 125 more cities today. Airtel was the first in the country to offer 5G services in October 2022, and today’s mega launch is our promise to connect every Airtel customer in the country with ultra-fast Airtel 5G Plus. Our 5G rollout is on track to cover all towns and key rural areas by March 2024.”
Airtel 5G Plus service availability will continue to rapidly expand – including service in all towns and villages in the country soon – as the company is working towards offering nationwide coverage. Airtel is now offering its 5G services in every major city from the upper northern city of Jammu to the southern tip of Kanyakumari.
In the last one year, Airtel has demonstrated the power of 5G with a host of powerful use cases that will change the way customers lead their lives and do business. From India’s first live 5G network in Hyderabad to India’s first private 5G network at the BOSCH facility in Bengaluru to partnering with Mahindra & Mahindra to make its Chakan manufacturing facility, India’s first 5G enabled auto manufacturing unit, Airtel has been at the forefront of 5G innovation.
NEW DELHI: Apple Inc has rolled out a beta programme to enable 5G on Apple devices as the upgrade lets users try out pre-release software.
This software upgrade enables 5G access on Apple devices, as and when service providers Jio, Airtel and Vodafone enable 5G network access, sources said.
Apple Users have to enrol for the Beta Programme on the website, install a profile and download the software.
Jio users using iPhone 12 and above, in cities where JioTrue5G has been rolled out, will be invited to the Jio Welcome Offer. Jio Welcome Offer provides unlimited 5G data at up to 1 Gbps speed to users at no additional cost. However, there is a condition that prepaid users must be on active Rs 239 and above plan. All Postpaid users are eligible for this trial.
Airtel is not providing any special 5G offer like Jio to their users. In the cities/areas in which the Airtel 5G network has been launched, users can trial 5G services as a part of their existing plan, once they have updated the latest Apple Beta software.
While an email sent to Apple did not solicit an immediate response, the firm had last month stated: “We are working with our carrier partners in India to bring the best 5G experience to iPhone users as soon as network validation and testing for quality and performance is completed. 5G will be enabled via a software update and will start rolling out to iPhone users in December”.
Airtel and Jio customers on iPhone 14, iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE (3rd generation) models can experience 5G as part of Apple’s iOS 16 Beta Software Program. The Apple Beta Software Program is open to anyone with a valid Apple ID who accepts the Apple Beta Software Program Agreement during the sign-up process.
If a user has an iCloud account, that is an Apple ID, it is recommended they use that. If they do not have an iCloud account or any other Apple ID, they can create one.
Customers who want to try the beta software should back up their iPhones before installing the beta software. It is recommended to install the beta software only on non-production devices that are not business-critical. Users can also provide feedback to Apple on quality and usability, which helps Apple identify issues, fix them, and make Apple software even better.
The iOS beta comes with the built-in Feedback Assistant app, which can be opened from the Home screen on the iPhone or iPad or from the Dock on the Mac.
Source: Press Trust of India
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Nokia wins multi-year deal with Reliance Jio India to build one of the largest 5G networks in the world
NEW DELHI: Nokia has announced that it has been selected as a major supplier by Reliance Jio to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment from its comprehensive AirScale portfolio countrywide in a multi-year deal. Reliance Jio is India’s number one mobile operator and has one of the largest RAN footprints in the world.
Under the contract, Nokia will supply equipment from its AirScale portfolio, including base stations, high-capacity 5G Massive MIMO antennas, and Remote Radio Heads (RRH) to support different spectrum bands, and self-organizing network software. Reliance Jio plans to deploy a 5G standalone network which will interwork with its 4G network. The network will enable Reliance Jio to deliver advanced 5G services such as massive machine-to-machine communications, network slicing, and ultra-low-latency.
Akash Ambani, Chairman Reliance Jio, commented: “We are pleased to be working with Nokia for our 5G SA deployment in India. Jio is committed to continuously investing in the latest network technologies to enhance the experience of all of its customers. We are confident that our partnership with Nokia will deliver one of the most advanced 5G networks globally.”
Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO at Nokia stated: “This is a significant win for Nokia in an important market and a new customer with one of the largest RAN footprints in the world. This ambitious project will introduce millions of people across India to premium 5G services, enabled by our industry-leading AirScale portfolio. We are proud that Reliance Jio has placed its trust in our technology and we look forward to a long and productive partnership with them.”
Nokia has a long-standing presence in India. This new deal will mean that Nokia is now supplying India’s three largest mobile operators.
