It seems to Huawei that video will drive the future development of telecom industry, and fusion operation facing FMC 2.0 will become the new normal in new era, which is also the core proposition that it proposed in the commercial level of digital economy. The “C” of FMC 2.0 not only means the convergence in the technology, but also represents content, namely fixed broadband (FBB) + mobile broadband (MBB) + content.
The president of Huawei Carrier Network BG Zou Zhilei said in an interview with C114, “revolutionary breakthrough will appear once it breaks the tipping point, now the time is close.” In fact, more and more operators have carried out rewarding attempts in the fusion business transformation, such as Telefonica, which obtained competitive advantages by the 5-play integrated business including voice, broadband, IPTV, mobile network and smart home, China Telecom Sichuan branch also effectively improved its economic value by launching the first 4K Ultra HD iTV business in domestic.
Video: "killer application" in the post-voice era
In the post-voice era, all the telecom operators are actively looking for a "killer application" and video has become their common choice. The data in Huawei’s citation shows that the more than 60 operators in the world will take video as their basic business, the majority of which have provided or are planning to provide 4K ultra HD video services.
"The whole world is entering into the broadband era and we will gradually step into the video society." Zou Zhilei points out, 70% of the current network data traffic are video and this ratio is still rising. Thanks to the rapid spread of 4K TV and set-top boxes and the diversified 4K content, watching 4K video by the On-Demand way has become consumers’ basic needs. How to provide customized video experiences will become an opportunity for the operators to take full advantage of their network.
In addition to entertainment applications, video has more extensive applications in the industry. 70% of the external information are obtained through the eyes and the efficiency of video transited information is geometric times of that of voice or text. In education, medical and many other vertical industries, the intelligence applications are based on video,“through the implementation of BYOD and Video Conference, the US could save one hundred million barrels of crude oil every year."
With the development of IoT, there will more videos that the “things” need to “watch” in the future, such as Self-Driving Car Technology, you need to transmit the gathered information directly to the machine to make analysis. Zou Zhilei described a beautiful blueprint -- in the near future, Video Everywhere will be throughout a person’s life and applied into all the industries and become a new way of life and experience.
Huawei helps the operators in digital transformation
Although the video and cloud driven growth could be expected in the industry and operators have got unique core competitiveness, the pain in digital transformation is difficult to avoid. As a long-term partner of operators and current industry leader, Huawei is making efforts in multiple perspectives and helping the operators during this stage, it will firmly stand with the operators and provides supports for their successful transformation.
Based on industry insights and early deployment in video, Huawei is able to provide world's leading device-to-device solutions and supporting services, and even help the operators to appeal cooperation partners. For example, the SDN based Network On Demand can achieve allocation and distribution of bandwidth resources according to the actual needs, as well as the storage and computing resources and network QoS ability, what is more important is that these services could be achieve in real time.