CommunicAsia 2016: Processing 5.2 Gb/sec--Huawei leads innovation  

At the Asia ICT Innovation Forum 2016 organised by Singapore Exhibition Services, and Huawei, as the strategic partner, attended by over 500 regional ministerial representatives, internationally renowned economists and global industry thought leaders and professionals, Huawei outlined its roadmap to accelerate ICT transformation to enable more people in Asia Pacific to reap the benefits of ICT and move towards a Better Connected World. To achieve technological and economic growth, countries must accelerate their digitisation process through open collaboration with stakeholders across the ICT ecosystem. Huawei also outlined the need for countries to measure and track their digitisation development, so as to steer the focus of ICT development roadmaps. The Forum was organised in conjunction with CommunuicAsia 2016.

“Today, building a Better Connected World has become the common aspiration of our entire industry. We are committed to the value propositions of Ubiquitous Broadband, Agile Innovation, and Inspired Experience and fully connecting people to people, people to things, and things to things,” said Zhou Jianjun, President of Carrier Business, Huawei Southern Pacific.

Consumers are increasingly expecting rich and inspiring experiences when interacting with content. For example, virtual reality (VR) has been applied in many areas, including gaming, shopping, tourism, and training. To deliver a perfect virtual reality experience, VR needs to process about 5.2 gigabytes of data every second, and have a latency of less than 20 milliseconds. To that end, ubiquitous ultra-broadband networks, with zero wait time and inspired experiences, are needed, which will drive constant changes and innovation of networks, and provide tremendous opportunities for industry development.

A Better Connected World will be a wellspring of opportunities for industries. These will include the 100-billion-dollar video industry, the one-trillion-dollar market for cloud transformation in enterprise IT, and the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, whose user base is expected to grow by a factor of 10.  

The Asia ICT Innovation Forum is the largest ICT trade event in the region, where Huawei showcases latest innovations and solutions together with 50 partners off-site. Visitors were able to design a unique fashion piece in virtual reality that may well be how the design process may turn out in the future. A Dancing Robot was brought on-site to interact and entertain with visitors.

(L-R) Lim Chee Siong - CMO of Huawei Southern Pacific, Zhou Jianjun – President of Carrier Business, Huawei Southern Pacific, Azhar HJ Ahmad - Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Brunei, Lindy Wee – Director of Singapore Exhibition Services, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim – Minister of Communications and Information, Singapore, Dato’ llango Kamruppannan – High Commissioner-Designate of Malaysia to Singapore and Lei Hui – CEO of Huawei Singapore. (Photo credit: Huawei.)

Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider that has 170,000 employees worldwide, and its innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company, fully owned by its employees.