At Huawei's online media and analyst pre-briefing for MWC Shanghai 2021, Peng 
Song, the President of Huawei's Carrier Marketing & Solution Sales Dept 
delivered a keynote speech titled "NetX 2025: The Path to Future Networks". 
During this speech, Peng announced the release of the NetX 2025 White Paper, 
including supporting data based on IDC research and analysis. This paper 
introduces the GUIDE model, explaining what future operator networks will look 
like.

Over the past two decades, communication services have evolved from voice-only 
to include varieties of data, video, and many more. Wireless, transport, and IT 
technologies have developed alongside communication services to meet growing 
needs.

According to Peng, as transformation toward an intelligent society accelerates, 
all industries are entering the digital era, in which ICT infrastructure will 
play a crucial role in the digital economy. Target-network planning for all 
service scenarios is the key to operators' new growth. With target-network 
planning aiming for business success, the industry must act with the essence of 
business in mind. Telecom networks are bound to change tremendously to adapt to 
new service and technological needs. Therefore, operators will be required to 
make target network plans today in order to seize new opportunities tomorrow.

During his keynote, Peng shared Huawei's vision for the target operator network 
of 2025. From the perspectives of business success and technological 
capabilities, Huawei believes that the target network must have five 
characteristics: Gigabit Anywhere, Ultra-Automation, Intelligent Multi-Cloud 
Connection, Differentiated Experience, and Environment Harmony.

Gigabit Anywhere is essential for target networks to provide digital services 
to users. Gigabit networks are the foundation upon which a company, a city, and 
even a country's economy can grow. Gigabit connectivity is the most fundamental 
requirement for manufacturing applications like VR and AR, industrial camera, 
and production data collection.

Ultra-Automation is essential for target networks with intelligent O&M. With 5G 
seeing massive deployment and more operators launching industry digitalization 
services, the scale and complexity of networks are increasing exponentially. 
Operators must enable ultra-automation by adopting big data and intelligent 
technologies. Operator networks can create greater value by intelligently 
automating complex tasks and simplifying human work.

Intelligent Multi-Cloud Connection creates a target network platform for 
service aggregation. After years of development, cloud technology has evolved 
from traditional IT to cloud computing, and then to cloud native. The digital 
transformation of enterprises has driven IT systems to become cloud-based, and 
multi-cloud connection is now essential to meet requirements for cost control, 
service reliability, and multi-cloud disaster recovery. These changes have 
driven new requirements for intelligent multi-cloud connection and brought new 
opportunities for operators to develop cloud-network convergence services.

Differentiated Experience is the key to allowing target networks to facilitate 
business success. The essence of user experience is business, and the essence 
of business is monetization. More and more practices have proven that 
differentiated experience can create a premium. For example, in the enterprise 
and government market, stock exchanges are willing to pay 10 times the rent for 
a 1-ms lower network latency. For operators, differentiated experience means 
providing both best-effort experience and deterministic experience. Good 
experience can satisfy users' personal needs and differentiated experience is 
where operators gain new value.

Environment Harmony is the target network's commitment to social 
responsibilities, and is part of the sustainable development strategy of 
leading operators worldwide. Operators must continuously innovate products and 
technologies to save energy, reduce emissions, and develop a circular economy. 
They should also drive industry players to cooperate in order to build a 
low-carbon society by enabling green connections, services, O&M, and 
applications through innovations in equipment, power, network deployment, data 
centers, operations, and applications.

The NetX 2025 White Paper, released at the pre-MWCS briefing, explains Huawei's 
approach to target operator networks, including the driver of NetX 2025, the 
GUIDE model that characterizes NetX 2025, recommendations on developing NetX 
2025, and important innovative technologies for 2025.

When closing his speech, Peng said that the GUIDE model of NetX 2025 for 
operators represents Huawei's understanding of and vision for operators' future 
networks and service development. Huawei is committed to working with operators 
and industries to explore and build future-oriented target networks and achieve 
business success by 2025.

SOURCE: Huawei 

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